Elementary kits include curriculum, activity materials and children’s literature for hands-on classroom investigations. A new series of Secondary kits are filled with a curriculum guide, literature, activities and demonstrations designed to engage Middle and High School students in exploration of scientific concepts and processes. Kits must be reserved in advance and are loaned for two weeks. Some kits require consumable materials which are the responsibility of the borrower to provide.
Grades K-2
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Grades K-5
Includes gourds for discoveries in anthropology, Pumpkin Circle video in Spanish and English, Pumpkin Circle book, Pepe’s Family Reunion book, milk carton planter example.
Grades 3-5
Includes pollinator costumes to role-play pollination, bee and butterfly glasses, The Reason for a Flower book, class set of “Journey of a Pollen Grain” sequencing cards, silk flowers, bee puppet, pollinator habitat bags
Grades 3-5
Coming Soon!
Grades 3-12
Includes laminated leaves for sorting, leaves for use with dichotomous key, pruning shears, plant press, leaf shape cards, How Leaves Change (book), “How Leaves Change Color” (poster).
Grades 6-12
Includes curriculum and materials for setting up your own crime scene investigation; evidence includes fibers from sweaters, plant material, pollen, pictures of wood samples, fingerprints, DNA bands, ransom note for paper chromatography.
Grades 6-12
Contains pictures and samples of objects found in nature that demonstrate various patterns, for example: nautilus shell, plant tendrils (spirals and helixes); sea urchin shell, sea star (spheres and explosions); dried leaves, roots, aerial pictures of rivers (branching); paper wasp nest, snake skin (packing and cracking) pictures of ferns, lichen (fractals); also includes By Nature’s Design book, clue cards, Fibonacci objects
Grades 6-8
Includes Me and My Family Tree, Baa! The Most Interesting Book, Adaptation, Potatoes, Genetic Engineering; pollinator costume and flower models to role-play pollination, “Create Your Own Adaptations” situation cards, color copies of “Play with Peas”, wrapping paper squares and butterflies for Survival Game; ID labels, sports cones, and burlap bags for Macroinvertebrate Mayhem game
