The Teacher Resource Center provides kits of materials for loan to teachers and other educators. Kits may contain specimens, books, audio-visual materials and activities suitable for classroom learning.

Kit list: items available for loan (last updated February 2008). Please call us at 617-973-6590 to check the availability of these kits!

A

Amphibians (several different boxes exploring topic for various grade levels)
Aquatic Careers (largely video-based exploration of roles and workplace)

B

Beaver (artifacts, story tape, puppet, and book)
Bird Beaks (classic animal adaptation activity)
Bullfrogs, Snails and Turtle Tails (compares turtles and frogs)

C

Cephalopods (squid dissection directions, artifacts, and info)
Closer Look (observation-based science and language arts)
Coast (background info, curriculum, and hands-on activities to model the topic)
Coastal Growth (role play and video)
Cocos Island (shark debate, hands-on material explore undersea topography, and food web)
Coral Reef (background info, books, curriculum, and coral samples)

D

Dolphins (background info, books, curriculum, and dolphin cranium)

E

Endangered Species (background info, books, curriculum)
Energy Conservation (demonstration materials)

F

Fish Banks Ltd. (Fisheries Mgmt — for older PCs)
Fish Form and Function (background info, books, curriculum, and model fish)
Frogs (background info, books, curriculum, and toys)

H  

Horseshoe Crab (background info, books, shell)

J

Jellies (background info, books, video, curriculum, and artifacts)
Just Add Water (properties of water)

L

Lobster (artifacts, story tape, puppet, and book)

M

Manatee (background info, books, video, curriculum, and puppet)

O

Open Oceans (background info, video, curriculum, and hands-on activities to model the topic)
Ocean Resource Kit (background info, curriculum, and videos)

P

Penguins (background info, curriculum, and hands-on activities to model the topic)
Pond (for young children: puzzles, toys and games)

R

Rainforest (background info, curriculum, and hands-on activities to model the topic)
Reptile (multiple readers and worksheet activities)

S

Sea Horse (background info, books, and specimens)
Sea Otter Biologist (focus on women in science)
Sea Turtles (background info, books, curriculum, and taxidermied specimen)
Seals (background info, books, curriculum, and toy)
Sharks (background info, books, curriculum, and shark jaws, fossil teeth, and skin)
Shells (background info, books, curriculum, and local New England shells)
Skulls and Bones (wide assortment of small mammal and bird skulls)
Slice of Pond (everything to go ponding)
Stream Ecology (water quality macro-invertebrate bio-assay gear)
Suitcase for Survival (endangered animal parts trade)

T

Tidepool (background info, books, curriculum, and shells/”tests”)
Trout Stream Ecosystem (background info, books, curriculum, and artifacts)
Turtles (background info, books, curriculum, and turtle shell)

W

Watercycle (5 sets simple 2 liter soda bottle apparatus)
Watershed to Bay (elaborate hands-on curriculum with all materials)
Wetlands (background info, books, video, curriculum, and game pieces)
Whale (very popular bones, baleen, solid curriculum, and all materials, $30/2 weeks)
Whale, Humphrey the Lost (background info, book, video, and puppet)
Whales of New England (background info, books, videos, and baleen)

ADDITIONAL BOOKS, POSTERS, VIDEOS, and ARTIFACTS CAN BE INCLUDED FOR MOST OF THESE TOPICS