Many partners, including the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Field Museum, offer resource and check-out materials to enrich classroom teaching and give educators additional tools and knowledge.
- Inquiry Kit: Butterflies
- Inquiry Kit: Reptiles & Amphibians
- Inquiry Kit: Zebra Mussels
- Inquiry Kit: Chicago Biodiversity
- Inquiry Kit: Climate Change
- Enviroscape: Wetlands
- Enviroscape: Non-point Source Pollution
- Enviroscape: Hazardous Waste
- National Geographic Book Packs
- Harris Educational Loan Center
- Discovery Checkout Kits
- ACS Chem Club - FREE support materials for science clubs
- Classroom Materials
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources Trucks Available for Loan
- Prairie Primer from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Inquiry Kit: Butterflies
The Nature Museum's Inquiry Kits contain resource books, videos, posters, specimens, models and other materials to stimulate your students' interest and supplement your classroom lessons!
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Inquiry Kit: Reptiles & Amphibians
The Nature Museum's Inquiry Kits contain resource books, videos, posters, specimens, models and other materials to stimulate your students' interest and supplement your classroom lessons!
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Inquiry Kit: Zebra Mussels
The Nature Museum's Inquiry Kits contain resource books, videos, posters, specimens, models and other materials to stimulate your students' interest and supplement your classroom lessons!
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Aquatic Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Inquiry Kit: Chicago Biodiversity
The Nature Museum's Inquiry Kits contain resource books, videos, posters, specimens, models and other materials to stimulate your students' interest and supplement your classroom lessons!
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Inquiry Kit: Climate Change
The Nature Museum's Inquiry Kits contain resource books, videos, posters, specimens, models and other materials to stimulate your students' interest and supplement your classroom lessons!
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Environmental Science
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Enviroscape: Wetlands
Enviroscape's table-top model explores pollution sources and prevention through interactive activities and demonstrations.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Environmental Science, Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Enviroscape: Non-point Source Pollution
Enviroscape's table-top model explores pollution sources and prevention through interactive activities and demonstrations.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Environmental Science, Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Enviroscape: Hazardous Waste
Enviroscape's table-top model explores pollution sources and prevention through interactive activities and demonstrations.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Environmental Science, Biology
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
National Geographic Book Packs
Book packs contain books from National Geographic Publishing on a variety of topics including weather, ecosystems, biology, science and literature, and more.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: Adults
Science Topic: Biology, Earth Science, Environmental Science
Partner: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
More information: http://www.naturemuseum.org/education Back to Top
Harris Educational Loan Center
Through Experience Boxes, Exhibit Cases, DVDs, and more, give your students an up-close look at real artifacts and specimens.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: All Ages
Science Topic: Biology, Earth Science, Anthropology
Partner: The Field Museum
Date(s): from 7/1/08
Location: The Field Museum, Harris Educational Loan Center
Telephone: 312-665-7555
More information: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/harrisloan
Discovery Checkout Kits
Kits can be used in classrooms or in informal settings to teach a variety of earth and space concepts through project-based learning, guided inquiry, and hands-on activities.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness: All Ages
Science Topic: Biology, Earth Science, Astronomy
Partner: Adler Classroom Connections in Earth and Space Science ACCESS
Location: The Adler Planetarium
Telephone: 312-322-0510
More information: http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/education/resources/index.shtml
ACS Chem Club -Free support materials for science clubs
The ACS Education Division would like to send you FREE materials- no strings attached! You only need to register to receive support materials. While the club sponsors and the students are directly in charge of shaping the character and direction of their clubs, the ACS Office of High School Chemistry provides support such as: Start-up manual, quarterly resource packets, T-shirts (chartered clubs only) Charters (chartered clubs only), Connections to ACS Local Sections, Connections to ACS Student Affiliate Chapters.
Audience: Educators
Age Appropiateness:Adults
Science Topic: Chemistyy
Partner: American Chemical Society
Telephone: 312-322-0510
More information: http://fs7.formsite.com/ACSEducation/form709367230/index.html
hschemclubs@acs.org amilef@niles-hs.k12.il.us
Classroom Materials
A variety of grade-specific materials to download for use in classrooms from K-12 relating to the work of veterinarians do to protect animals, people, and the environment.
Audience: Teachers (K-12), school counselors, parents
Age Appropiateness: All Ages
Science Topic: Veterinary Medicine
Partner: American Veterinary Medical Association
More information: http://www.avma.org/educators/
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Trunks Available for Rent
Illinois Prairies and Illinois State Symbols join the list of topics available to educators throught the resources trunks loan program of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) Division of Education. Illinois Prairies provides supplemental materials and lessons about the ecological aspects of prairies as well as how pioneers adapted to and affected prairies. Illinois' State Symbols is the perfect resource for those who teach about Illinois. Images, replicas and actual samples of our state symbols are included, as well as information about them and facts about Illinois.
Audience: Teachers (K-12)
Age Appropiateness: All Ages
Science Topic: Natural Resources
Partner: IDNR
More information: http://www.dnr.state.il.us/education/classrm/teach.htm
Prairie Primer from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
If you teach about prairie ecology in grades four through eight, the Prairie Primer from the State of Illinois Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) Division of Education may be of interes to you. This 32-page activity booklet is a revision of a Conservation Education Kit that was produced in the 1980s by the Illinois Department of Conservation. A poster accompanied the activity book. Currently, the Prairie Primer is only available in PDF format for download. You may access it through the IDNR Publications page.
Audience: Teachers (K-12)
Age Appropiateness: All Ages
Science Topic: Natural Resources
Partner: IDNR
More information: http://www.dnr.state.il.us/teachkids
