Earth Expeditions - Project Dragonfly

Project Dragonfly

Since its inception more than a decade ago, Project Dragonfly has reached millions of children, parents and educators through science learning media, exhibits, and graduate programs. The project began in 1994 with the creation of the award-winning Dragonfly magazine, the first national magazine to feature the investigations and discoveries of children. Created in 1994 at Miami University, Dragonfly magazine was funded by NSF and published by the National Science Teachers Association. The magazine published young investigators alongside such adult researchers as Dr. Jane Goodall.

Project Dragonfly pioneered the " Real Kids, Real Science " approach to learning, and continues to work for inquiry-driven reform to increase public involvement in science and global understanding. In addition to Earth Expeditions, Project Dragonfly generated the Emmy-Award winning PBS children's television series DragonflyTV, which led to the 2010 launch of the spinoff series SciGirls, both produced by TPT public Television. Project Dragonfly also oversees two national exhibit projects: Wild Research and Saving Species, which are creating public research stations at zoos and aquariums nationwide to engage families in science inquiry and conservation. The National Science Foundation has called the Dragonfly, "A true innovation, and a model of active learning that should be."