Students work with real (digitized) scientific specimens from natural history museum collections to answer pressing global questions about ecosystem dynamics.
EPIC investigations utilize high-quality specimens from natural history collections in botany, entomology, mycology, and vertebrate zoology.
Students gather, analyze, and interpret data using digitized museum specimens.
Students learn to deploy accurate, consistent methods of data collection.
EPIC investigations guide students in identifying and interpreting data patterns to inform evidence-based explanations and arguments to their research questions.
Each investigation is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards; MSLS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics.
EPIC Bioscience investigations are provided free for educational use. Create your free account at researchquest.org and get started!
Scientists from the Natural History of Utah mentor students through each investigation. They guide students with background information, accurate data collection, data analysis, and reasoning about findings!
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