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Teaching Resources
Scavenger hunts, learning brochures, and activity kits are several resources available to teachers through the museum. These resources are described below.
Scavenger Hunts
The following scavenger hunts engage students as they find and learn about museum specimens and objects:
- Scavenger Hunt I, for primary grades
- Scavenger Hunt II, for intermediate grades and junior high
Learning Brochures
This series of question-and-answer brochures encourages students to carefully observe and analyze information from the museum's exhibits. To download the brochures and the accompanying lesson plan/teacher's answer key, please click: brochures.zip
Activity Kits
Activity kits allow teachers to use some of the museum's collections in their classrooms. The following kits currently are available, and we encourage you to contact the museum for other special requests. Please also visit the museum's Virtual Tour. Each museum exhibit featured in the tour contains a "Teaching Tools" link to related activities.
Fossil Kits—These kits contain different types of fossil specimens from the Ordovician Period. See the Web Of Life 1 teaching tools page for lessons that use these specimens.
Skull Kit—This collection can be used in lessons about measurement and comparison as well as those concerning predator-prey relationships. See the Web Of Life 2 and What's In A Name: Classifying Organisms teaching tools pages for lessons that use these specimens.
Dichotomous Keys Kits—These kits include animal classification activities for primary grades using plastic insects and lizards, or skull specimens for the higher grades. See the What's In A Name: Classifying Organisms teaching tools page for activities that use these kits.