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Books
Conservation Curriculum
Puppets
Scientific Tools

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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.

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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

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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.
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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.                                         

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Sharing Nature With Children
by Joseph Cornell

Forty-two nature awareness activities that have delighted children as well as adults.

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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!

Origami

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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
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Wild, Wonderful, Wyoming: Choices for the Future
The Statewide Integrated Conservation Education Program
Primary Activities
​Grade K-5


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Wild, Wonderful, Wyoming: Choices for the Future
The Statewide Integrated Conservation Education Program
Secondary Activities
Grade 6-12

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Puppets

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Bear
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Cow
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Eagle
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Fox
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Frog
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Goat
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Horse
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Pig
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Raccoon
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Skunk
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Squirrel
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Scientific Tools

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Binoculars
7x35
6 pairs available


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Bulb Syringe

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Compass
​Basic compass

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Forceps

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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
 

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Magnifying Glass Double Folding 5X
​18 Available

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Magnifying Glass 2X & 4X
​2 Available

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Glass Vials
  • Borosilicate glass vials
  • Screw-on black phenolic caps
  • Capacity 2 Dram (1/4 fl oz)
  • Dimensions 17 x 60mm

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Work Gloves
Light duty work gloves, enough for an entire class.

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Hand Spades
13 Available

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pH Testers
Moisture Meters

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Classic Kitchen Scale
Weighs up to 11 lbs in ounces or grams
​5 Available

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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.


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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.

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