TRAVELING TEACHING TRUNKS
The Museum of the Rockies Traveling Teaching Trunks offer exciting,
object-based learning opportunities for your students. Each trunk
provides teachers and students with specimens, replicas, activities,
resource materials, and a teacher's guide. Bring a piece of the
Museum to your classroom. It is the next best thing to a field trip!
Each of the following trunks can be reserved by the week (5
classroom days) for a rental fee of $35 per week plus shipping costs
onto the next school. The trunk activities can be adapted for use with
students in all grades, but have proven to be especially effective with
elementary and middle school students. To reserve a trunk, call the
Education Office at (406) 994-5282.
NEW!! Four NASA-based Trunks
Each trunk contains the best NASA materials
available such as curriculum, videos, slide sets, and CD-Roms. Also included are several
"stand alone" table-top activities to help students actively learn about astronomy.
Living In Space Trunk
Space produces different living conditions than Earth.
How do astronauts deal with a microgravity environment? We'll explore
these issues as well as how astronauts live and work in space.
Rockets Trunk
For every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
How does a rocket take off from earth? How does it stay in space? The
principles of rocketry, especially Newton's third law, will be examined as
well as the launching of simple rockets in this trunk.
Space Exploration Trunk
Over the past 30 years, spacecraft and other tools have
helped us discover a great deal about stars, planets, and other mysteries
of space. In this trunk we'll explore the past, present, and future of
space exploration. The techniques and strategies for exploring our space
environment and possibilities for future space exploration will also be
examined.
Planets Trunk
The Sun has a family of very different planets. Learn about the
rocky and gaseous planets of our solar system. Discover their similarities
and differences. Also in this trunk, learn about the current
investigations and exciting new views of the planets and their satellites.
Archaeology Trunk
Sign up to use our trunk introducing students to archaeology. This
trunk contains artifacts, models, activities, videos and resource
materials. The trunk focuses on regional prehistoric and historic
archaeology projects.
Dinosaur Trunk
The Museum's Dinosaur Trunk contains real dinosaur bones, casts and molds of bones, teeth
and eggs along with the latest information about dinosaurs for use in the classroom. Resource
books, videos and posters are also included.
Earthworks!
Travel through 4.5 billion years of Earth's history as you explore the activities and materials in
Earthworks! Rocks, fossils, models, books, games, videos and other software available in this
trunk will help students discover the early landscapes and life forms of the Northern Rocky
Mountain region. Pre-visit and post-visit activities are available in a teacher's manual as well
as a CD-ROM highlighting Landforms/Lifeforms that will assist in preparing your class for a trip
to the Museum. This trunk is suitable for grades 3-8.
Homesteading Trunk
This trunk is designed to reinforce students' understanding of the history of homesteading and
the daily lifestyles of settlers through activities and stories. Trunk materials include artifacts,
models, clothing replicas and instructions for classroom-based activities that match the new
National History Standards.
Paper-making Trunk
Everything needed to create paper is found within this trunk; all you need is old newspaper or
any other paper that is ready for the trash. Art and science lessons can be incorporated into this
activity which recycles old paper into new.
Science! Trunk
Students engage in science process skills using the contents of this science trunk. Materials
include all the science toys needed for the "Toys in Space" astronomy activities, an activity guide,
posters and resource materials.
Songbird Trunk
This dynamic trunk has activities geared for the classroom as well as outdoors relating to
songbirds. Resource materials, activities, videos, a storyboard, posters, bird song tapes, puppets
and study skins all help students learn more about the natural history of several songbirds. It is
provided by the Sacajawea Chapter of the Audubon Society.
Telescope Trunk
Capture students' interest in the "Big Sky" using a Telescope Trunk from the Museum. Each trunk
contains an easy-to-use 4" Edmund Astro scan telescope, star charts and activities on astronomy
and the night sky.
More Trunks
For information on other trunks available in this region, please open
this Acrobat PDF guide: Guide to Educational Trunks in the Northern Rockies
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