The Museum will not be checking out any more traveling trunks (other than those already scheduled) after Tuesday, May 1st. We hope to let you know very soon when and where they will be available for use during the 2012-2013 school year. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your support over the last 10 years! Sincerely, Diane Schupbach |
Traveling Trunks
Education Contact: (M-F, 9 am–1 pm)
Diane Schupbach, Education Coordinator
319-273-3276 or diane.schupbach@uni.edu
Traveling Trunks are availabe for use by area educators, including classroom teachers, homeschoolers, day-care providers, Scout leaders, and after-school program leaders. The trunks may be checked out for 2 weeks by e-mailing diane.schupbach@uni.edu. A $5 handling fee applies.
Science Trunks
Ugly Bug Box Investigate the world of insects. Learn about the life cycles and habits of grasshoppers, painted lady butterflies, cockroaches, honey bees, and ants. Discover why bugs are so important to our world.
Rock Box I Discover how rocks keep a record of life on earth as you examine real fossils of dinosaurs, fish, insects, and plants. Use a rock “mano and metate” to grind corn, and learn how early humans turned rocks into axes and arrow points. Open a geode and see the fantastic crystals inside.
Rock Box II Use our samples and instructions to identify rocks as igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary with touch, sound, and visual and density tests. Identify the rocks in our quiz bags, and use a black light to reveal the beautiful glowing colors of minerals.
Mineral Mystery Box Assemble paper copies of crystal models to learn how minerals grow. Use the models and other tests, such as streak, hardness, and luster to identify some minerals.
Feet, Feathers, Bones, & Beaks Learn about the adaptations birds have made that help them flourish in their environments. This box includes samples of feathers, bones, feet, and hands-on activities. A new portable bird display case is ready to go.
Dinosaurs 101 Everything you ever needed to know about dinosaurs (well, almost) is in this trunk. Be a paleontologist; be a dinosaur dentist; measure big and little dinosaur strides; and discover where in the world they lived. Two sets of classroom books are included.
Tree Trunk How do plants and trees grow? Find out with this trunk! Learn to identify trees and plants that surround you every day. Investigate the lives of trees and plants by doing hands-on activities and experiments, and learn to read the age of trees by counting their rings!
Social Studies Trunks
One-Room School Tools Take your students back in time with McGuffey’s Readers, slates, slate chalk, and cloth erasers. Have them practice penmanship using a penny, compete in a spell down, or play the same games their great-grandparents enjoyed.
African Art of Adinkra Use Adinkra "dictionaries" to read printed cloths and discover who would wear them or how they would be used. Apply Adinkra stamps to create banners, t-shirts, stationery, and many other items. The stamps may be used with the ink pads provided.
Our World in a Box Explore our world, our country, and our state through exciting books, geographical tools, and hands-on activities. Enhance map skills, discover landforms, and become better informed citizens of the world.
Immigration to Iowa This trunk is packed with activities, books, and resources about immigration, personal items, and pictures of real immigrants to Iowa -- past and present. Great for Iowa history and for learning about other cultures.
Pick a Country, Any Country
Each trunk listed below will help students explore fascinating countries from around the world. Discover foods, music, art, clothing, and literature. Touch and try on items from the following corners of the globe:
Japan, Land of the Rising Sun (I)
Japan, Land of the Rising Sun (II)
Ireland, The Emerald Isle -India, Diversity of a Nation (I & II)
**NEW Tibet, The Roof of the World (I & II)
Also...
African Americans, From Slavery to Freedom (I)
