Natural Resource Lending Library Free use of Water, Soil, Rocks, & Wildlife Lesson Kits 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]
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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.
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.