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The Education Program has a wide variety of resources to loan to local schools. Please contact PCEI's educators to reserve supplies, field guides, or learning bins for your classroom.

Learning Bins
Orienteering Bin: This bin contains compasses and directions for setting up a game to help your class learn compass basics.

Rainforest Bin: Books and interesting artifacts (skins, butterfly specimens, and more) will enhance your rainforest lessons.

Oceans Bin: If your class is studying oceans, this bin will supplement your lessons with a variety of specimens (coral, sea turtle, walrus tusk, and Helmet Shell), an ocean floor map, and books.

Tree ID and Forest Measurement Bin Materials include measuring tapes, tangent tree height guides, tree ring dating kit, box of tree cookies, clinometers, and calculators.

Field Guides
Rockies Trees and Wildflowers Pocket Guide
Idaho Birds Pocket Guide
Weather Pocket Guide
Pond Life Pocket Guide
Rocky Mountain Tree Finder Pocket Guide
Peterson First Guide to Butterflies and Moths
Peterson First Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians
Peterson First Guide to Insects
Peterson First Guide to Birds
Trees of Idaho

Supplies
Binoculars
Compasses
Berlese Apparatus
Petri dishes
Water quality monitoring equipment
Pond and stream study equipment
Wildlife pelts
Weather station

Fact Sheets
These handy fact sheets cover the basics of a variety of environmental topics. Use them to brush up on some ecology for a unit you are teaching or to be better informed for that next public meeting. Each sheet includes a list of references for more in-depth study.

Water Quality
Aquifer Basics
State Groundwater Designations
Moscow Area Aquifers
Palouse Water Use
Riparian Areas
Palouse Trees
Wetlands
Stream Dynamics
Biodiesel


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last update: 1/9/2012

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