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Regional Services
Resource Trunks for Two-Week Loan

 

[ Air Quality Trunk ] | [ Earth & Space Science Trunk ] |[ Energy Trunks ]
 [ General/Outdoor Education Trunk ] | [ Native Plants & Animals Trunk
[ Oceans and Marine Life Trunk ] |  [ Plants, Soils, & Tree Trunk ]
[ Solid Waste Trunk ] | [ Water & Weather Trunk ]

 

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  Oceans and Marine Life Trunk
 
  • Along With the Seashore (book)
  • Awesome Ocean Science (book)
  • Banana Slug String Band "Slugs at Sea" CD
  • Coral Reef Card Park
  • Florida Keys Bird ID Card
  • Life in the Ocean Card Game
  • Ocean Animal Clue cards
  • Ocean Bingo (12 cards)
  • Oceans Teachers A-Z Resource Guide
  • Reference Collection ID Cards
  • Sealife Art and Activities
  • Sea Soap Teachers Guide
  • A Swim Through the Sea (book)
  • A Swim Through the Sea, Teacher's Guide
  • This is the Sea that Feeds Us (book)
  • Turtle Identification Activity
  • Our Wild World Series (books)
    - Dolphins
    - Manatees
    - Seals
    - Sharks
    - Whales

    FIELD GUIDES:
  • Fishes First Guide -- Peterson
  • Seashells of the World -- Golden Guide
  • Seashores first Guide -- Peterson
  • Shells First Guide -- Peterson

    HANDS-ON:
  • Awesome Ocean Science Kit
  • Beachcombers (activity program)
  • Inflatable Earth globe
  • Ocean Activity Model

    Shell Collections
  • Deluxe Molluck Shell Collection
  • Gastropod Shell Collection
  • Pelecypod Shell Collection
  • Shell Collection (mix)
  • Conch Shell
  • Sugar Starfish

    Other Animal Life
  • Sugar Starfish
  • Starfish, 23 leg
  • Seabiscuit
  • Sea Urchin

    Models

    Monterey Bay Aquarium Collection
  • Manta Ray
  • Sawfish
  • Blue Shark
  • Great White Shark
  • Hammerhead Shark
  • Thresher Shark
  • Tiger Shark
  • Whale Shark
  • Stingray

    Other Models
  • Five seahorse models
  • Green Moray
  • Spotted Moray
  • Sailfish
  • Batfish
  • Flying Fish
  • Tuna
  • Reef Fish Models

    POSTERS:
  • Crustacea Diversity
  • Mollusca Diversity
  • Deep Sea Creatures

    VIDEOS:
  • Ocean, Eyewitness
  • Seashore, Eyewitness
  • Seashore Animals -- Disney Channel
  • Underwater Animals -- Disney Channel
  Plant, Soil, and Tree Trunk
 
  • Family Pack Containing: (4X30 mm Binoculars, TASCO 10X Hand-Held Microscope, Magnifying Bug Boxes (One Large & Two Small), Small Leaf Press, Tweezers, Double Folding Magnifier, 15 cm Ruler, 4 Pill Bottle Sized Containers)
  • Dig In To Earth Science (Soil Investigations)
  • Ten-Minute Field Trips
  • 5 Paper Potmakers
  • 1 Set of Soil Sorting Sieves
  • 1 Sedimentator Kit
  • 1 Seed Identification Kit
  • 1 "Singing In Our Garden" CD
  • 1 "Dirt Made My Lunch" cassette type
  • 1 Fanning Tree Field Guide
  • 1 Fanning Wildflower Field Guide
  • OBIS Lawn Guide
  • Professional Soil Test Kit
  • BioQuest Biodiversity Tree Study Kit (Includes 6 tree rounds, 15 hand magnifiers, 15 metric rulers, marking pins, 15 study guides, student activity sheets, and other information)
  • 5 Leaf and Flower Presses, plus blotting paper
  • "Let's Make Paper" Paper Making Kit
  • Kentucky's Soil...it touches all of us! (Newspaper)
  • 10 Booklets: What Tree is That?  A dichotomous key to conifers and deciduous trees, The National Arbor Day Foundation
  • EE Alliance CD: Best Lessons, Northern KY EE Resource Directory, EE Alliance brochure, List of Trunk Contents

    Videos:
  • Citrus Farming
  • Magic School Bus Goes to Seed (In Backpack)
  • Tell Me Why: Flowers, Plants, and Trees
  • Fall Color, Trees of the Eastern Forests
  • KET Electronic Field Trip to a Forest

    Posters:
  • How Plants Make Food
  • Orchids of Kentucky
  • Parts of a Tree

    Backpack Contents:
    Plant Unit
  • Lesson plans
  • Video: "The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed"
  • 24 Twelve-Inch Rulers
  • 2 Bottles of Alcohol
  • 1 Jar Petroleum Jelly
  • Laminated, Blank Leaf, Raindrop, Rainbow, and Sun Vocabulary Cards
  • The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds, Joanna Cole
  • How Groundhog's Garden Grew, Lynne Cherry
  • Plantzilla, Jerdine Nolen
  • The Greek Kapok Tree, Lynne Cherry
  • Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
  • From Seed to Plant, Gail Gibbons
  • The Reason for a Flower, Ruth Heller
  • Flower Garden, Kathryn Hewitt
  • Growing Vegetable Soup, Lois Ehlert

    Trees
  • A Log's Life, Wendy Pfeffer
  • The Gift of the Tree, Alvin Tresselt
  • 12 What Tree is That?  The National Arbor Day Foundation
  • 25 Tree Cookies on string with parts of a tree on them

    Cactus Adaptations
  • Lesson Plans
  • Cactus Hotel, Brenda Z. Guiberson
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  Solid Waste Trunk
 
  • Solid Waste Pollution Chart
  • Decoding Plastics Poster
  • Ecoart
  • Let It Rot! (Composting Guide)
  • Unintended Consequences (CD)
  • Rot'N'Roll (Cassette)
  • How Litter Affects Wildlife Activity (materials include: glass bottle, aluminum can, Styrofoam cup, fast food straw & wrapper, sandwich wrapper, cup & lid, napkin, cigarette butts, plastic bag, 6 pack ring, fishing line)
  • Why People Litter Presentation
  • Recycling Basics Display
  • Litter Bugs Me!  Presentation & Fish Game
  • Landfill Presentation
  • Solid Waste Education Standards
  • Trash and Climate Change Booklet
  • How Litter Affects Wildlife Activity
  • Recyclable Items Picture Frame
  • Magnetic Fishing Pole
  • Don't Be a Litterbug Coloring Book (2)
  • 10 Ways to Care for the Earth (2)
  • Litterbug bumper sticker (2)
  • Be A Solid Waste Survivor (K-9 Curriculum, Lessons, KY Core Content)
  • Northern Kentucky Solid Waste Management Area Resource Guide
  • Bag of Recyclable Items
  • Ruler made from recycled material
  • EE Alliance CD: Best Lessons, Northern KY EE Resource Directory, EE Alliance brochure, List of Trunk Contents
  • "The Wartville Wizard" by Don Madden
  • "Talkin' Trash with ABC's (Aluminum Beverage Cans)", An interdisciplinary curriculum module for grades 6-9
  • "Aluminum Beverage Cans: The ABCs of Environmental Education", Intermediate Level Curriculum
  • Interdisciplinary Curriculum CD

    Videos:
  • I Need the Earth and the Earth Needs Me (Temporarily Unavailable)
  • KY Litter Free 2000
  • Think Earth
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  Water and Weather Trunk
 
  • LaMotte Water Test Kit
  • Hach Drinking Water Curriculum Kit
  • Hach Ponds and Streams Curriculum Kit
  • Hach Wastewater Curriculum Kit
  • Stream Kick Nets (1 Large, 2 Medium, 3 Small)
  • Audubon Field Guide - Weather
  • 30 Student Thermometers
  • 5 in 1 Weather Station
  • Portable Weather Station
  • Anenometer
  • Living in in Water (Lessons)
  • Water Dance, by Locker.  Winner of the Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children
  • An Educator's Guide to Water Quality
  • Madison to Maysville River Look Map
  • Kentucky's Wonderful Commonwealth of Water (K-12 Units of Study)
  • EE Alliance CD: Best Lessons, Northern KY EE Resource Directory, EE Alliance brochure, List of Trunk Contents

    Backpack Contents:
    Evaporation
  • Lesson Plans
  • 22 plastic cups

    Wonderful Weather
  • 28 Water Activity Work Posters
  • 6 Copies, Rain, Rozanne Lanczak Williams
  • Weather Words and What They Mean, Gail Gibbons
  • The Rainstick, a Fable, Sandra Chisholm Robinson
  • Rainstick Kit Water Pollution

    Water Pollution
  • Vocabulary Cards

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