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Natural Resource
Lending Library Free use of Water, Soil, Rocks, &
Wildlife Lesson K its
Lending Library FAQ How Long:
Materials in the Butler SWCD’s Lending Library can be borrowed for free for up to 7 days. Materials
can be borrowed for consecutive terms, if no one is waiting.
Delivery: Occasionally, an employee of the Butler SWCD office will be near your location and may be able to
pick-up or drop-off the item. It is the borrowers responsibility to pick-up and drop-off materials.
Ordering: If you would like to borrow an item, contact the District’s Education Specialist, Lynn White. Please
have your calendar ready when you call in order to schedule loan dates.
Contact: Lynn White, Butler SWCD
1802 Princeton Road, Hamilton, OH 45011
Phone: 513-785-6666
Email: [email protected]
Water Kits Biological Water Quality Monitoring Kit
This kit, created through a grant from the Ohio Environmental
Education Fund allows you and your students to biologically test
water quality in the classroom.
Using the materials provided you can quickly create two simulated
streams (without water), one is “healthy” and one is “polluted.”
This kit contains macroinvertebrates that are preserved in plastic.
These “bugs” are found in rivers and creeks around Butler County.
Using identification sheets, students test the water quality for
each. You don’t have to have experience identifying these stream
creatures to be able to use the kit. This lesson can take from 1-2
class periods.
Streams table
This kit can be used to teach your students about landforms, erosion,
deposition, water safety, and much more. It can also be used for math exercises
such as calculating the water velocity.
The streams table provides a great opportunity for groups of students to create
their own experiments using the table. Does water flow faster when its flowing
straight? What’s the best way to slow erosion? How can I slow the river?
The kit can be used in the classroom or outdoors (it cannot be left outdoors
overnight). The kit includes the 6ft stream table, water pump, faucets, sand,
houses and animals, and signs to mark landforms.
It has two different lengths of legs, depending
upon the height of your students. All you need it
water, electric and your students.
Watershed Model: Enviroscape
This model can be used to teach about watersheds, rivers,
pollution, impacts on wildlife and more. The model is
simple to use, and even has a user guide. Flip through the
guide one way and it shows how to discuss pollution
sources, flip it the other way and it shows ways we can
prevent pollution.
The model uses food such as cocoa power as soil, oatmeal
as litter, and chocolate
syrup as oil, to make this
a highly visual and
effective tool.
Science Grade 7
Science Grade 6 & 7
Science Grade 6
Incredible Journey
Using giant dice, students move as water drops around the water cycle, flowing
through the atmsohphere and lithosphere. This helps students understand that
water doesn’t always follow the same simple path
through the cycle.
An extension allows students to see the flow of
contamination between the different spheres.
Where Does Water Run?
This great activity from Project WILD Aquatic combines math and science.
Students calculate the area of the school property. Then combining this
information with rainfall maps, they can calculate the volume and weight of
the rainwater that lands on the property in one year. The amount of water
will astonish your students.
The size of the school can be calculated by going outside and measuring, or by
using maps. An aerial picture of your school, along with a scale can be
provided if you choose to calculate the area this way.
Poison Pump
A killer has swept through the streets of London; hundreds are dead! Through a series of
clues, students solve a mystery to discover that water can also produce negative effects
for people. Includes maps, clues and victim descriptions.
History, Life science, Health. 50 minutes
Water Kits
Science Grade 7
Water Use
Students create water meters to chart their water use .
Monitoring water use helps students analyze the quantity of
water they use and how they use it. Recognizing water
involvement helps students foster an appreciation. Environmental Science, math. Takes up
to 1 week for lesson as the students measure their water usage.
Fred The Fish (Early Childhood)
Students actively participate in this story about a fish
that goes on an adventure. Along his journey, Fred
sees a lot of pollution. As you read the story, students
take it in turn to add the pollution to a fish tank
Science Grade Prek—1
Science Grade 6
Science Grade 6
Science & Math Grade 7
Page 4
Sum of the Parts
You’ve inherited a million dollars and some river front property. How will
you develop your property and how will effect those around you? Student
groups design their own riverfront property, then each group places their
“property” together to form a large watershed. Students will learn about
the different kinds of water pollution and that everyone’s pollution
contribution can be reduced.
Super Sleuths (Middle School)
Students learn about the diversity of water bone illnesses and the role of
epidemiology in disease control by searching for others who have been
“infected” with the same water-borne illness as they have. Health, life science,
geography. 50 minutes
Water Kits
DVDs
We have several DVDs that you can also borrow to supplement these
lessons.
Poisoned Waters: from the PBS frontline broadcast, April , 2009. This
documentary is an excellent view of two major watersheds in the US,
Pugent Sound and Chesapeake Bay. Great for environmental discussions
surrounding water pollution and nonpoint sources.
Vernal Pools: Ecosystems, biology, and much
more. From Ohio Environmental Council
A Sense of Wonder: A documentary on Rachel
Carson, the pioneering environmentalist that
brought attention to the environment in her book Silent Spring published in 1962.
Science Grade 6
Science Grade 6
Page 5
Soil Properties
This kit comes with materials and books. Use soil sieves to explore the
different sizes of rocks in the soil, use a color chart to figure out the
color of different soils and much more.
Books include:
• Soil Erosion and Pollution: A New True Book
• Erosion by Becky Olien
• Our Endangered Planet: Soil
• Life in A Bucket of Soil
• The Disappearing Mountain and Other Earth Mysteries
• The Rock factory: A Story about the Rock Cycle
• Cracking Up: A Story about Erosion
• The Best Book of Fossils, Rocks, and Minerals
Science Grade 3 & 6
Earth Science Kits
What Mineral Is It?
Through the use of dichotomous keys (both written and visual)
students can identify minerals based on their properties. The
students will test for hardness, cleavage, acid, and more. There
are multiple samples of 10 different minerals, allowing your
students to work
independently.
Rock Cycle
A great alternative to teaching the rock cycle from the book. In this activity
students will become minerals moving around the rock cycle. Through
throws of giant dice, students will have to figure out what happens if they
are eroded, or what happens if they are
heated and squeezed.
Science Grade 6
Science Grade 6
Plate Tectonics
Using maps and historic earthquake data, students plot
earthquakes onto a map of the world and examine the patterns
produced.
Science Grade 6
Page 6
Black Bear Kit (all levels)
This kit allows you and your students to study an Ohio native; the black bear.
Through an interactive game, your students will learn that habitat is made up
of multiple components that are all essential for the survival of wildlife. Using
math, students can figure out if they have
the perfect bear diet, if the mother and her
cubs will survive, and if the young male
bear will find enough food.
Wildlife Kits Worm Bin (all levels)
An ecosystem in a box! A worm bin is a great
classroom resource, and you can borrow ours for 1-
4 weeks. The bin is easy to care for, just bury left
over fruit and veg, in their box and make sure their
bedding is moist. Bin comes with several great books, including one on the care of the
worms. To borrow this kit we will need to set up a meeting to discuss how to care for
this simple ecosystem in a box….. don’t worry, it’s really easy.
Let your students imagine run, as they can develop a variety of experiments including
whether worms prefer light or dark, if they move faster over rough or smooth, and if
bananas decompose quicker with or without worms.
Bottleneck Genes
Through an interactive activity, students are introduced to the study of conservation
genetics and population bottlenecks. They will discover how the loss of genetic
diversity and genetic characteristics can affect that population’s ability to respond to
changes in its environment. Other topics covered
include: (1) wildlife management issues, and (2)
the role of science and technology in conservation.
Science Multiple Grades
Science Grade 4
Science Grade 8
Beavers
This kit can be used to teach about: Adaptations
and How animals change the environment. The kit
includes the materials to dress a student as a
beaver, a beaver skull, beaver log, books, and
much more.
Science Grade 3
Build a Bug
This kit can be used to teach about: Adaptations. The kit includes the materials to
dress an insect and includes different fake mouth
parts, tails, gills, and more. The kit also includes a
the lesson plan to Stream Bug Simon Says.
Science Grade 3
Educational Trailer Butler Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), with the help of the
Cincinnati Museum Center, the has designed and renovated a 35 foot
trailer into an educational exhibit, showing soil and water. This trailer,
named ‘The World Beneath Your Feet’ has interactive question and
answer tools, as well as drawers you can pull out to see fossils and aquatic
creatures. It also highlights storm drains, drainage tile, plant roots and an
aquifer.
The trailer is free for Butler County Schools to use.
In 2012, the trailer received an award recognizing it an outstanding
project by the Ohio Environmental Education Fund.
For more images and info about the trailer please visit
www.butlerswcd.org/Education/Trailer/Trailer.html
Science Grade 3, 4, 5 & 6
Wildlife Kits
Migration Headache Migration Headache Migration Headache Migration Headache
Students become “migrating shorebirds,” traveling between nesting and wintering habitats. Along their journeys they experience some of the threats that affect the survival of migratory shorebird populations.
After this activity, students will be able to:
■ Define the term migration.
■ List three limiting factors that can affect the populations of migrating shorebirds.
■ Classify these limiting factors as natural or human-caused.
■ Predict the effects of habitat loss and degradation on populations of shorebirds.
Science 7
Energy Pipeline
Students simulate organic production and energy loss for major trophic levels
in an ecosystem in this hands-on lesson. The class acts as a “growth” assembly
line that becomes increasingly complex with each
round.After the lesson, students can explain why
energy dissipates at each level
Science 5
Skills Kits Maps
This kit has everything in it that you need to teach students about
topographic maps. The students can create landform from a map, and
then create a map from a landform. This all helps to make it easier to
read maps. The kit also contains a variety of maps (physical, political,
and thematic) and also a topographic of your area of the county.
This skills activity is highly popular, and
although can be used to supplement
many standards it has few hard hits.
Hitting the Mark
Students investigate the concepts of accuracy and precision in data collection
and learn the importance of writing detailed procedures.
Groups of students work together find out the best way to make a ball of clay hit
a target as accurately and precisely as possible. They then write up their
procedure for another group to use to see if they
can replicate the results. It is a great activity to
release your students imagination while helping
them to recognize the limitations in these ideas if
Science Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Science Grade 6
Other Available Educational Programs and Resources See www.ButlerSWCD.org for full details
Training
Educator workshops are offered for free or for a nominal fee depending upon the cost of resources. Workshops
are available on natural resource content on a variety of topics including, water, wildlife, and soils.
In Class Programs and Field Trips
Butler SWCD offers free programs at your location (within Butler Co.) or can meet you at a field trip location.
Topics include, soil, water, wildlife, trees, geology, weather, maps and much more.
Service Projects
Each year, Butler SWCD works with students, residents, and youth groups on a variety of projects including storm
drain labeling, river cleanups, and water quality testing.
Competitions
Annual Poster Contest– for all grades. The theme changes each year to a new natural resource topic.
Envirothon– High school teams compete in: soils, forestry, aquatics, wildlife and a current environmental topic.
The contest is held in early May each year for an 18 county area, with the top teams going on to compete at
state.
When: April 6, 2017 9:00am to 4:00 pm
Where: Deer Creek State Park in
conjunction with the
50th Annual EECO Conference
Sponsored by the ODNR-Division of Wildlife and the Environmental Education Council of Ohio. Please send the attached proposal form to: Jen Dennison Wildlife Education Coordinator ODNR-Division of Wildlife [email protected]
Proposals will be accepted until
November 18, 2016. Notifications
of acceptance will occur by Novem-
ber 25, 2016.
Are you a teacher currently conducting research related to wildlife and/or wildlife habitats
with high school students?
Are you a high school student involved in wildlife-related research?
Would you be interested in presenting your research to an audience of fellow student
researchers, biologists, and wildlife management agencies?
Then we want you!
The 1st Annual Ohio Student Wildlife Research Symposium is a place to present your
research in a professional and supportive environment. You can choose to present as a pa-
per session, or a poster session. Paper sessions are 25 minute sessions in front of an
audience. Poster sessions are in a group with other poster presenters.
Please send your contact information and questions to:
Jen Dennison, Wildlife Education Coordinator, ODNR-Division of Wildlife.
[email protected] or 1-800-WILDLIFE.
We know there are a lot of great research projects out there and we want to hear more about
them. We hope to see you there!
Student Wildlife Research Symposium
Call for Proposals 2017
Submit by November 18, 2016
Email completed form to: [email protected] (electronic copies preferred)
or mail to: Jen Dennison-ODNR--Division of Wildlife
Re: 2017 SWRS
2045 Morse Rd. Bldg. G. Columbus, Ohio 43229
Questions? Contact Jen Dennison-614-265-6316, or 1-800-WILDLIFE
Student Information
Student Name
School
Address
Phone
Teacher/Parent/Guardian Information
Name and Tit le
Email/ Phone
Organization
Proposal Information
Title of Paper/Poster
For Conference Brochure (12 words or less)
Type of Presentation
(Circle or highlight one)
C Paper Presentation (20 mins, with 5 mins for questions)
C Poster
Summary of Presentation
for Conference Brochure
(Please limit description to 50 words)
Abstract
A description of your presentation/poster
including statement of objectives, a brief
description of research methods, results, and
conclusions. This can be attached on a
separate sheet. (200 words or less)
Paper/Poster Topic
(Circle or highlight all that apply) C Wildlife Science
C Wildlife Management
C Wildlife Conservation
C Wildlife Education
C Human Dimensions and Wildlife Interactions
C Other ________________________________________________________
Proposal Guidelines
Proposals may be submitted until November 18th, and will be evaluated and chosen by a
3-person panel. Accepted presenters will be notified by November 25th.
Paper Presentation Guidelines:
C Presentations should be 20 mins, with 5 minutes for questions.
C Presentations can be given in electronic format such as PowerPoint or Prezi; please
bring your presentation on a thumb drive. Computers, projectors, etc., will be provided.
Please contact Symposium Coordinator for other types of presentation needs.
C If handouts are required, please plan to send them to the Symposium Coordinator
ahead of the Symposium for review and distribution.
C Presentations should present results from completed projects or completed phases of
long-term projects. Research in-progress can only be presented as a poster.
Poster Guidelines:
C Can be research in-progress or completed projects.
C Cannot present a Poster and a Presentation.
C Posters can be no larger than 4ft x 4ft. Must provide your own easel.
All presenters and poster session participants will be given complimentary registration costs,
including lunch. Any accompanying teachers, parents, guardians, and fellow students must
register to attend. Registration for the symposium and the EECO Annual Conference will open
in late November, 2016.
For questions, contact Jen Dennison, Symposium Coordinator, at 614-265-6316 or 1-800-
WILDLIFE, or [email protected]
As a presenter at the Student Wildlife Research Symposium, please make every effort to
present factual, scientific, and non-biased information and opinions through your program, as
this is a core mission of EECO.