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Facts Not Fear: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children about the Environment
by Michael Sanera
Helps parents reverse the growing trend toward using scare-tactics when talking to children about environmental consciousness
Origami
Keeping a Nature Journal
by Clare Walker Leslie
Reconnect with nature through sketching and writing with these simple methods for capturing the living beauty of each season. Clare Walker Leslie and co-author Charles E. Roth offer easy techniques, exercises, and prompts for all ages.
Wild, Wonderful, Wyoming: Choices for the Future
The Statewide Integrated Conservation Education Program
Secondary Activities
Grade 6-12
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
Grade 3-6
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8
by Stephanie Harvey
Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner.
Sharing Nature With Children
by Joseph Cornell
Forty-two nature awareness activities that have delighted children as well as adults.
Wyoming Trivia
by Brian Day
Where can you find ringing rocks, vanishing rivers, and the world's only hand-dug oil well? If you've ever wondered how many dead men are in Wyoming, or how the first yellow pages came about, then crack open Wyoming Trivia!
Conservation Curriculum
Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom
Kindergarten Curriculum
Three complete units comprised of a variety of hands on lessons. Each lesson includes engaging grade level books and activities. Students will learn:
1. Where our food comes from?
plants & animals
how crops grow
plant their own wheat seeds
grind wheat and make flour
2. Why we need trees?
identify uses of trees
identify the life cycle of a tree
identify the four seasons
3. The Energy Tree
identify energy sources
identify items that use energy
Wild, Wonderful, Wyoming: Choices for the Future
The Statewide Integrated Conservation Education Program
Primary Activities
Grade K-5
Bulb Syringe
Work Gloves
Light duty work gloves, enough for an entire class.
PH Testers
Moisture Meters
Binoculars
7×35
6 Pairs Available
Magnifying Glass 2X & 4X
2 Available
Scientific Tools
Garmin GPSMAP 76 Waterproof Handheld GPS
7 devices available
Marine-friendly handheld GPS with 8MB Memory floats in water and is IPX7 waterproof
Basemap of principle cities, interstates, highways, roads, and marine navigation aids
WAAS enabled Global positioning system (GPS) receiver continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites
Puppets
Forceps
Magnifying Glass Double Folding 5X
18 Available
Glass Vials
Borosilicate glass vials
Screw-on black phenolic caps
Capacity 2 Dram (1/4 fl oz)
Dimensions 17 x 60mm
Hand Spades
13 Available
Classic Kitchen Scale
Weighs up to 11 lbs in ounces or grams
5 Available
SPRING SCALES
These spring scales consist of metal case, pointer, spring, suspension ring, and load hook. One edge calibrated in N (Newton) the other in g (gram), with zero adjustment, used for measuring forces and weighing.
Pesola Light-Line Spring Scale, 100g
These ultra-light, precise scales feature a tare screw with incremental rotation to protect against inadvertent adjustment, a colored marker ring for clear, precise readings, and a transparent scale tube for panoramic reading. Scales work in any position, even overhead. Includes plastic case. Two-year warranty.Use precision Pesola scales to determine weights or, with the optional pressure set, determine the amount of pressure needed to move objects. Features an easy-tare method which allows you to "zero out" container weights up to 20% of scale capacity. Made of corrosion-resistant stainless metal with an abrasion-resistant anodized finish, each scale has a standard eye clip with a crocodile clamp.