{"id":6392,"date":"2014-10-27T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:16:20","slug":"edna-lawrence-nature-lab-risd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2014\/10\/27\/edna-lawrence-nature-lab-risd\/","title":{"rendered":"Edna Lawrence Nature Lab | RISD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Who we are<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Founded in 1937 by long-time faculty member Edna Lawrence [RISD \u201820], Rhode Island School of Design\u2019s Nature Lab inspires countless art and design projects throughout the college and beyond.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #002147\">Its hands-on natural history collection, aquaria, micro-imaging and GIS labs within the studio environment offer the opportunity to examine and explore the patterns, structures and interactions of design in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What we offer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Expertise on the development of STEAM lessons that are relevant to individual school\/classroom needs.<\/li>\n<li>Extensive life science specimen collection for use in hands-on, object-based curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>RISD\/Brown STEAM Club whose undergraduate and graduate student members are focused on STEAM exploration and learning activities.<\/li>\n<li>A microscopy room with 20 dissecting stereoscopes, 12 compound scopes and specimens from all taxonomic kingdoms of life.<\/li>\n<li>High-quality stereo and compound microscopes equipped with digital cameras capable of full-color, high-resolution imaging and the ability to capture fluorescent images. A Scanning Electron Microscope for research purpose (vs. individual students K-12)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key opportunities<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Nature Lab is currently exploring the role of studio-based methodologies within the context of science research. We are interested in collaborating with science and art|design educators to develop and document exemplary case studies and curriculum that clearly demonstrate transdisciplinary learning. Some collaboration possibilities are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring students to the Nature Lab to test curriculum currently in development stage. Make use of specimen and microscopy resources.<\/li>\n<li>Co-planning a science + art field trip at various EPSCoR educational resource centers.<\/li>\n<li>Use Nature Lab\/RISD expertise to add studio-based practices to existing natural science field trips.<\/li>\n<li>Invite Nature Lab into your classroom to work on fundamental principles common to both artists and scientists.<\/li>\n<li>Invite Nature Lab representatives to present on the many ways of incorporating the study of nature into an artistic practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contacts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Melita Morales:<\/strong>\u00a0EPSCOR|STEAM Engagement and Communication Coordinator. <em>Contact point for K-12 schools interested in bringing students to the Nature Lab and\/or research on STEAM education pedagogy<\/em>. Email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mmorales@risd.edu\">mmorales@risd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer <span style=\"color: #000000\">Bissonnette<\/span><\/strong><b>:\u00a0<\/b>Biological Programs Designer, Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. <em>Developing college-level Biodesign educational programming. \u00a0Systematizing and maintaining the aquaria, microscopy, camera, and GIS resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neal Overstrom:\u00a0<\/strong>Director, Edna Lawrence Nature Lab.\u00a0<em>Focus on promoting Nature Lab resources as a crucial context for exploring, interpreting, and sharing the essential human-nature connection, and as form and function design inspiration.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we are Founded in 1937 by long-time faculty member Edna Lawrence [RISD \u201820], Rhode Island School of Design\u2019s Nature Lab inspires countless art and design projects throughout the college and beyond.\u00a0Its hands-on natural history collection, aquaria, micro-imaging and GIS labs within the studio environment offer the opportunity to examine and explore the patterns, structures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}