Plants
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Activities & Tools
CROP IDENTIFICATION KIT
Grade 1-12
Superb, hands-on study kit features 10 important crops, including wheat, corn, rice, cotton, oats, soybeans, barley, alfalfa and more. Includes samples of the crop plants, each individually carded, labeled, and bagged, along with 10 samples of products from each of the featured crop plants. Teacher’s guide is included, offering numerous activities.
CROP IDENTIFICATION KIT
Grade 1-12
Superb, hands-on study kit features 10 important crops, including wheat, corn, rice, cotton, oats, soybeans, barley, alfalfa and more. Includes samples of the crop plants, each individually carded, labeled, and bagged, along with 10 samples of products from each of the featured crop plants. Teacher’s guide is included, offering numerous activities.
HOW A TREE GROWS KIT
Grade 4-12
In this kit, students look at how a seed grows, how leaves play an important part in food manufacturing, how a tree grows at different points (roots, stems, and bark), and how to measure tree growth. Twenty-one real tree parts and cross sections are used to teach students about chlorophyll, photosynthesis, transpiration, and the distribution network for a tree's food, minerals, and water. Kit contains: three seeds, three roots, three woody twigs, three herbaceous stems, three bark samples, three cross-section samples, three leaf samples, three magnifying glasses, and a teacher's guide with eight hands-on activities.
Grade 4-12
In this kit, students look at how a seed grows, how leaves play an important part in food manufacturing, how a tree grows at different points (roots, stems, and bark), and how to measure tree growth. Twenty-one real tree parts and cross sections are used to teach students about chlorophyll, photosynthesis, transpiration, and the distribution network for a tree's food, minerals, and water. Kit contains: three seeds, three roots, three woody twigs, three herbaceous stems, three bark samples, three cross-section samples, three leaf samples, three magnifying glasses, and a teacher's guide with eight hands-on activities.
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Giant Magnetic Plant Life Cycle Grade K-5 Enlarged for demonstration on the whiteboard. Features realistic illustrations to model up to 6 stages in the life cycle of a bean plant and apple tree. |
Forestry Suppliers Tangent Height Gauge
This mirror sighting height gauge is great for teaching students how to quickly determine tree heights! Easy to follow instructions are embossed onto its rugged plastic shell, detailing the gauge’s four-step measuring method and height-finding formulas.
Paper Making
Supplies for making paper.
Supplies for making paper.
- tub
- screens
- white felt
- sponges
- shredded paper
- 3 blenders
Anvil Pruners (2)
Grass Shears (3)
Children's Books
The Life of the Forest
Grade K-5
Learn how seeds travel and then grow. Beautiful cut away of tree parts, including a wide variety of basic information on trees. We have enough copies for each student in the classroom to read along.
Grade K-5
Learn how seeds travel and then grow. Beautiful cut away of tree parts, including a wide variety of basic information on trees. We have enough copies for each student in the classroom to read along.
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The Forest Where Ashley Lives
by Mark Vitosh Grade K-4 Learn about forests as Ashley explains all about trees and how they help our world. Beautiful color illustrations and fun facts are included. |
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Rachel and Sammy Learn to Conserve
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
Children will discover that everyone wins when they conserve the earth's natural resources. Join in the fun and learn all about planting trees and native plants, soil, water, and energy conservation, wildlife habitats, recycling, and more!
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
Children will discover that everyone wins when they conserve the earth's natural resources. Join in the fun and learn all about planting trees and native plants, soil, water, and energy conservation, wildlife habitats, recycling, and more!
Rachel and Sammy Visit the Prairie
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
This little story on the prairie will teach children all about prairie plants.
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
This little story on the prairie will teach children all about prairie plants.
Rachel and Sammy Visit the Forest: A Guide to Spring Woodland Wildflowers
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
This fun story can also be used as a junior field guide to aid students in identifying the plants in the story, as each plant in the book features realistic illustrations and colorful photographs.
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
This fun story can also be used as a junior field guide to aid students in identifying the plants in the story, as each plant in the book features realistic illustrations and colorful photographs.
Rachel and Sammy Learn About Trees
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
This beautifully illustrated book will help children learn more about tree identification, parts of trees, importance of trees, photosynthesis, and much more! This fun story teaches children tree information and features 14 realistic illustrations and 41 colorful photographs.
by Jannifer Powelson
Grade 3-5
This beautifully illustrated book will help children learn more about tree identification, parts of trees, importance of trees, photosynthesis, and much more! This fun story teaches children tree information and features 14 realistic illustrations and 41 colorful photographs.
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The Other Way to Listen
by Byrd Baylor Grade 1-3 When you know "the other way to listen," you can hear wildflower seeds burst open, you can hear the rocks murmuring, and the hills singing, and it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Of course it takes a lot of practice, and you can't be in a hurry... |
Cactus Café: A Story of the Sonoran Desert
by Weidner Zoehfeld
Grade 1-4
Describes the activities of various animals living in the Sonoran Desert and their dependence on the saguaro cactus for sustenance.
by Weidner Zoehfeld
Grade 1-4
Describes the activities of various animals living in the Sonoran Desert and their dependence on the saguaro cactus for sustenance.
The Rainstick, A Fable
by Sandra Chisholm Robinson
Grade 4-6
Take a journey to the place of the rain. A young boy's quest for the rain takes him on a journey from the hot, dry savanna to the moist, comforting rain forest.
by Sandra Chisholm Robinson
Grade 4-6
Take a journey to the place of the rain. A young boy's quest for the rain takes him on a journey from the hot, dry savanna to the moist, comforting rain forest.
Take Along Guides for Kids
Grade 2-5
A nature guide with brief introductions and watercolor illustrations.
Grade 2-5
A nature guide with brief introductions and watercolor illustrations.
Plants
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Field Guide to Wyoming Grasses
by Quentin Skinner Excellent field guide for the taxonomy of Wyoming grasses. Incredible full color photographs to aid in identification Rangeland Plants Wyoming Tough (Click on title to download) University of Wyoming Extension Help in identifying the most important and common plant species on Wyoming's rangelands including grasses, grass-likes, forbs, and woody plants vital to both wildlife and domestic livestock. Also included are a few undesirable plant species. |
Grass Utilization Gauge
Measures average ungrazed grass height by species.
6 available
Measures average ungrazed grass height by species.
6 available
Forage and Reclamation Grasses of the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
by Mark Majerus
Includes keys on seed identification and vegetation. Color photographs with detailed information.
by Mark Majerus
Includes keys on seed identification and vegetation. Color photographs with detailed information.
Field Guides
Flowers of Wyoming's Big Horn Basin Mountains
by Earl Jensen
Extensive key for the flora of the Big Horns.
by Earl Jensen
Extensive key for the flora of the Big Horns.
Wildflowers
by Roger Tory Peterson
A simplified field guide to the common wildflowers of northeastern and north-central North America.
by Roger Tory Peterson
A simplified field guide to the common wildflowers of northeastern and north-central North America.
Rocky Mountain Flower Finder
By Janet Wingate
A key to the wildflowers found below tree line in the Rocky Mountains (Nature Study Guides)
By Janet Wingate
A key to the wildflowers found below tree line in the Rocky Mountains (Nature Study Guides)
Plants of the Rocky Mountains
by Kershaw
Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are included, as are color-coded sections to allow for quick identification. 900 color photographs, 700+ line drawings
by Kershaw
Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are included, as are color-coded sections to allow for quick identification. 900 color photographs, 700+ line drawings
Tree and Shrub Identification Guide
K-12
Beautiful full color photographs of trees and shrubs in Washakie County. Descriptions were researched and written by West Side students. Provides fast facts and close-up shots of leaves for identification.
K-12
Beautiful full color photographs of trees and shrubs in Washakie County. Descriptions were researched and written by West Side students. Provides fast facts and close-up shots of leaves for identification.
Trees: Peterson First Guides
By George A Petrides
A simplified field guide to the trees of North America
By George A Petrides
A simplified field guide to the trees of North America
Rocky Mountain Tree Finder
by Tom Watts
Key to identifying native trees of the Rockies and the Great Basin, in the U.S. and Canada, leaves and needles.
by Tom Watts
Key to identifying native trees of the Rockies and the Great Basin, in the U.S. and Canada, leaves and needles.
Weeds of the West
Guide for identifying weeds that compete with native plants in the west.
Guide for identifying weeds that compete with native plants in the west.
Fire!
Fire: A Force of Nature
Grade 4-8
Fire can seem destructive, but with this destruction it rejuvenates and brings new life to ecosystems. This is the story behind fire, a true force of nature. Beautiful color photographs.
Grade 4-8
Fire can seem destructive, but with this destruction it rejuvenates and brings new life to ecosystems. This is the story behind fire, a true force of nature. Beautiful color photographs.
Fire: Friend or Foe
by Hinshaw Patent
Grade 4-8
Even massively destructive fires are a normal and healthy part of a cycle that helps maintain balance in nature. Explore the important role that fire has in keeping our forests healthy.
by Hinshaw Patent
Grade 4-8
Even massively destructive fires are a normal and healthy part of a cycle that helps maintain balance in nature. Explore the important role that fire has in keeping our forests healthy.
Forest Fire!
by Fraser
Grade k-5
Beautiful paintings and a fascinating story teach children that fire, though frightening and destructive, also brings new life to the forest and its ecosystem. Full color.
by Fraser
Grade k-5
Beautiful paintings and a fascinating story teach children that fire, though frightening and destructive, also brings new life to the forest and its ecosystem. Full color.
Wildfires
by Seymour Simon
Grade 3-5
A raging wildfire can be a major disaster, costing lives and destroying homes. But fires in nature can help as well as harm, clearing forests of dead trees and allowing young plants to grow. Breathtaking photos highlight this surprising look at fire’s part in maintaining the balance of nature.
by Seymour Simon
Grade 3-5
A raging wildfire can be a major disaster, costing lives and destroying homes. But fires in nature can help as well as harm, clearing forests of dead trees and allowing young plants to grow. Breathtaking photos highlight this surprising look at fire’s part in maintaining the balance of nature.