Liz Crocker
Liz Crocker

Liz CrockerLearning Program Developer

I am a Learning Program Developer at the Royal BC Museum. Learn more about me here.

Playlists


Bats of British Columbia

Bats of British Columbia

Studying bats is a great way to learn about mammals, adaptations and habitats and you don't have to do it in the dark! Check out the second edition of the Bats of British Columbia Handbook! Explore the Community Bat Programs of BC website: https://bcbats.ca/ Check out UBC's E-Fauna BC for information about your local bats.  

Stinging Nettle

Stinging Nettle

Royal BC Museum botany collections manager Heidi Guest, shared this recipe for Spanakopita using stinging nettle instead of spinach in the RBCM@Outside Sting! program on March 10, 2021.

Sikh Heritage Month – April 2020 Educator Webinar

Sikh Heritage Month – April 2020 Educator Webinar

April is Sikh Heritage Month. This playlist presents resources referred to and used in a Royal BC Museum educator webinar on April 21, 2020. Author Steven Purewal and educator Annie Ohana joined us for a conversation about exploring Sikh heritage in the classroom and linking it to BC school curriculum. This playlist also includes Indus…

BC Fish Colouring Sheets

BC Fish Colouring Sheets

Print off these illustrations by Royal BC Museum curator of vertebrate zoology, Dr. Gavin Hanke and colour away! Colour from your imagination (what colours would you like your fish to be?) or check online sources to find out real life colours of these fishes. Keep in mind that the colour you see depends on: what…

RBCM@outside with Dr. Nancy Turner

RBCM@outside with Dr. Nancy Turner

On May 20, 2020, Dr. Nancy Turner led us through a virtual plant walk on Protection Island, British Columbia during an RBCM@outside program. View the program here. Explore 'A Plant Walk on Protection Island' by Dr. Turner and Native Plants of the South Coast on the Learning Portal. Royal BC Museum books by Dr. Turner:…

RBCM@outside Sharing Nature with Children

RBCM@outside Sharing Nature with Children

On June 3, 2020 RBCM@ outside host Liz Crocker and WildBC Facilitator Stephanie Weinstein from Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation introduced and demonstrated some of their favourite nature activities to share with children, including making pooters! View the program here. Explore the resources in this playlist for more ideas. Look for photos of Dr. Joel Gibson, curator…

Historical Thinking Winter Institute 2019

Historical Thinking Winter Institute 2019

This playlist collects Learning Portal resources to support sessions at the Historical Thinking Winter Institute at Royal BC Museum February 15 & 16, 2019. It also supports activities or lessons you can do back in the classroom or wherever you work, including primary sources from BC Archives and suggestions on how to investigate these sources…

Learning Portal on Chek TV!

Learning Portal on Chek TV!

This short video is part of the Royal BC Museum This Week in History series on Chek TV. It was recorded in fall of 2018. It gives a brief overview of what the Learning Portal is about and some of the technologies we are using to improve your experience here on the Portal.

Royal BC Museum Interventions for Change Workshop

Royal BC Museum Interventions for Change Workshop

This playlist was created to support workshop participants at the BC Museums Association Conference 2017. The session Interventions for Change explored intervention strategies scalable for museums of any size to be used in school programs or special events. Learn about an intervention with the Punjabi community at the Royal BC Museum here.       

From Insects to Abstraction

From Insects to Abstraction

Looking closely at insects from the Royal BC Museum entomology collection, teacher Andrew Gibbs led his students in an art activity inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. Dive into this playlist for activity details and samples of student work. Andrew Gibbs father, Richard Gibbs worked at the museum as a taxidermist. Richard Gibbs with Woolly mammoth below.

Entries


Elizabeth Rohlicek Studies Whale Fossils
University of Victoria student Elizabeth Rohlicek made this video while working with Royal BC Museum's curator of palaeontology Dr. Victoria Arbour in 2020. Elizabeth studied whale fossils found at Muir Creek Beach on Vancouver Island.

Rock Bass
Rock Bass (Ambloplites rupestris) illustration by Dr. Gavin Hanke Royal BC Museum curator of vertebrate zoology.

Starry Flounder
Starry Flounder (Platichthys stellatus) illustration by Dr. Gavin Hanke Royal BC Museum curator of vertebrate zoology.

Antler Wedge in Use
Illustration from the Royal BC Museum archaeology gallery of  antler wedges and a stone hand maul being used for woodworking. 

Paddle
This paddle is from the Royal BC Museum Ethnology collection. View the object in the collection here

Cowichan Spindle Whorl
This image is from the BC Archives. Learn more about the image here: <http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/spinning-wool-for-cowichan-indian-sweaters>

Ladder in Pit House
This image is from the BC Archives. Learn more about the image here: <http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/kickwilli-hules-1907-inside-of-pit-house> .

Pole Raising
This image is from BC Archives. Learn more about the image here: <http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/raising-totem-pole-at-masset>

Intervention Interview Questions
Use these questions to inspire and guide you when interviewing to learn more about your audience and help with program planning, hacks and interventions. 

Reynolds School 94 Calls to Action
Reynolds Secondary School, Royal BC Museum's 2016 partner school, created a gallery intervention with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the 94 Calls to Action. 

Reynolds School Intervention
Reynolds Secondary School was Royal BC Museum's partner school in 2016. Student work included interventions to interrupt permanent gallery narratives.   

Punjabi Intervention
1In 1 playlists
Members of the Punjabi community discuss the Becoming BC gallery at the Royal BC Museum, November 21, 2015

Feminist Hack
1In 1 playlists
Participants at a Royal BC Museum Feminist Hack noted that women are not currently included in the Becoming BC gallery. 

Echolocation Video
This stunning slow motion footage shows how bats use echolocation to find water. We know how bats echolocate to hunt insects, but this is the first study to show how they recognise large, flat objects like ponds (by Youtube contributor Nature Video).