LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -The University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall hosted its monthly Investigate Saturday Science Lab, with this month’s topic focused on climate change.
The session explored how climate change has affected the past and how people can protect the future.
“It’s something that really interlaces all of the science that we look at when we’re here in the museum because we’ve have climate change throughout the years, we’re having climate change right now and we need to be thinking about the ways that can impact ourselves and our ecosystems and the other creatures we share our planet with,” said Jason Nord, education supervisor at the museum.
Nord said there is no better feeling than seeing an idea click into a kid’s head.
“I get to have all sorts of moments where they have a lightbulb go off in their head and or something goes together for them and they get excited or even they get to look around at these huge fossils in our world… right it is still our world… but it is a very different world than it was ten thousand years ago or a million years ago,” Nord said.
Kids walked around to different stations learning about the Earth’s atmosphere, how they can help reduce greenhouse gases and looked at fossils, including the museum’s prized skeleton, Archie the Mammoth.
The science labs happen every month at Morrill Hall. Next month’s topic is about how art and science intersect.
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