Background Information:
- Plant Excretion/Byproducts
- Flower Dissection
- Plant Terminology
- Nat'l Park Service Bee Week Curriculum
- Bee ID Guide (Note: This is for Missouri but many of these species are also found in IA)
- US Forest Service - Just for Kids (all ages)
- Blooming Flowers Time lapse [video]
- Recipe: Dandelion Donuts [video]
- PBS Nature: Watch a Butterfly Swarm [video]
- Story of Flowers: A botanical animation [video]
- Invasive Species Educator Resources
- Example of how to lead a hike (skim this)
- How to tap a maple tree
- Leaf shape, arrangement, margin and venation
Pre-Made Activities/Curriculum:
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology curriculum - click here
- Project WILD - Curriculum book
- Project WET - Curriculum book
- Various Water Rocks! activities - click here
- Tree growth rate activity - click here and here
- How to calculate the height of a tree - click here
- Tree ID - click here
Supplies Available:
- Various taxidermied mounts
- Various taxidermied specimen "parts" (i.e. feet, wings, heads, etc)
- Turkey tote (fans, feet, poster/diagrams)
- Flexible tape measures
- Biltmore stick
- Bird field guides
- Water Rocks! activity components (please let us know which specific activities you are looking at so we can check our supplies)
- Tree cookies/slices
- Tree Tote (includes seeds from Iowa and other parts of the USA,
- Various educational posters
- Maple Syruping equipment (Note: It is not the right time of year to tap/produce maple trees, but we can make the supplies available for viewing)
