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Dig It: Teens Go on a Virtual Fossil Dig With Museum Scientists in Africa

Filed by Ben Wolff at 5:10 am on January 11, 2010 in Museums, Participatory Learning, STEM, Virtual WorldsLeave a comment

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Aspiring teen scientists in Chicago and New York went digging for fossils in Zambia this summer, without leaving home, thanks to a technology enhanced science camp run by Chicago’s Field Museum and Global Kids.

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