Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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Q?Digital

Open your virtual world
to a learning experience
that brings science to your home

The Q? Digital program combines the “Q?” for the curiosity to discover, with the virtual experience. Explore and have fun with Smithsonian science-based Q? Digital activities on current learning skills and inquiry.

We will update this space as we develop and introduce new online resources. Follow us on @PuntaCulebra social networks for the launch of new educational activities.

Interactive games

Barro Colorado

Be part of the adventure! Explore the Barro Colorado Island in Panama, the most studied site in the world!

Age: 7 and up

Format: interactive game

Hypoxia

Avoid the oxygen-poor water and other dangers while saving our marine friends along the way.

Age: 10 and up

Format: interactive game

Exploring with Tito

Discover the incredible biodiversity of the Panamanian forests and capture it all with your camera.

Age: 8 and up

Format: interactive game

Megalodon

Discover some of the species that inhabit the 2 most important oceans and learn from their past.

Age: 8 and up

Format: interactive game

Leaf Cutter Empire

Play, have fun and learn about the different stages of the life cycle of a colony of ants.

Age: 7 and up

Format: interactive game

Sound Safari

Identify animals from the sounds they make using real spectrogram images, just like a scientist.

Age: 7 and up

Format: interactive game

Flatten the curve

Helps the smilies protect themselves and flatten the transmission curve of the SARS-CoV-2 transmitted by the COVID-19.

Age: 7 and up

Format: interactive game

Animated videos

Bats and frogs

Mammals that fly and amphibians that sing, how does a predator affect the love life of its prey?

Age: 12 and up

Format: animated video

Crandall, the Curious

Join the Crandall crab to explore its curiosity on a journey from Singapore to Panama.

Age: 7-12

Format: animated video

A Slipper Snail Tale

A group of veliger larvae are released into the ocean and remain adrift until something unexpected happens to them.

Age: 7-12

Format: animated video

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