Soils presentations -the students get to feel the texture. They also test the soils for water filtration rates and ID the soil type.
Enviroscape- demonstrates the water cylce in 3-D format and helps educate people/children about where their drinking water comes from and where their waste water goes.
Ground Water Model-demonstrates how water moves underground and contaminates that could pollute the water.
Streamulater– shows floods, stream movement, oxbows, meandering streams, erosion, water cycle.
Other programs
(K-5)Lorax storyboard– allows students to place the felt pieces on the board as we read the story with the theme of forestry conservation.
Arbor Day Presentations (4th grade gets free trees 1st or 2nd week of April) Other grades can request presentations. The last Friday of April. Please call to schedule AHEAD of time, Thanks!
Harvest kit –promotes Agriculture donated by Farm Bureau
Dairy DVD —promotes dairy farmers donated by American Dairy Association
Life Cycle Books- free to borrow for classrooms: ant, bat, beaver, bird, butterfly, crayfish, earthworm, flower, frog, honeybee, misquito, salmon, spider, tree, wolf
other books- Curious Critters, State Coloring pages, Lorax, The Giving Tree, Why Would Anyone Want to Cut Down a Tree?.
Skins & Skulls Trunk– allows a close up look of wild animals and covers terms like: camouflage, nocturnal, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, endangered, extinct, etc.
Bat Trunk, Bear Trunk, Bird Trunk, Tree Trunk– partnership with ODNR-Division of Wildlife to bring to classroom– terms like hibernation, migration, growth rings, leaf rubbings, etc.
Bat Trunk, Bear Trunk, Bird Trunk, Tree Trunk– partnership with ODNR-Division of Wildlife to bring to classroom– terms like hibernation, migration, growth rings, leaf rubbings, etc.