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Available Resources for Educators

Warren County SWCD is here to support educators!  We can provide many education tools including research and hand out materials, posters, and entire program kits available for loan free of charge to entities in Warren County.  See below for list of program kits available!

Program materials must be requested in advance and may be borrowed for up to seven days. Materials can be picked up at the Warren County SWCD office located at 320 E. Silver St., Lebanon, OH.

                                   Contact an Education Specialist to request loan materials! 

E-mail Melissa

Electronic and online resources to be used in distance learning or at-home learning


Visit our virtual classroom for video lessons and information on virtual learning options!

Warren County SWCD Virtual Classroom

Program Loan Kits Available:

Geology

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Earth Formations
  • Learning Objective: ​Environmental changes, like weathering or erosion, can be constructive, destructive or even neutral.
  • Activity: Students visit five stations and conduct erosion, weathering, physical and/or chemical change experiments.
​Rock Cycle Game
  • Learning Objective: Rocks form in different ways and have specific properties.
  • Activity: Students become minerals in the rock cycle and learn about everyday uses of rocks and minerals.

Fossils

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Fossil Impressions
  • Learning Objective: Some kinds of individuals that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared, although they were something like others that are alive today.
  • Activity:  Observe fossils from rock layers and make a fossil imprint to take home. ​**Teacher must provide Play-doh for class activity
Investigating Fossils
  • Learning Objective:  Fossils provide a point of comparison between the types of organisms that lived long ago and those that exist today.
  • Activity: Observe fossils from rock layers and compare structures on different fossils through a "mystery" game based on scientific observation!

Hydrology

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Water Cycle Game
  • Learning Objective: Water moves in a continuous cycle; students relate terms with properties of water and weather.
  • Activity: Students become a "droplet" of water and map their journey in the water cycle.​
Stream Education Curriculum
  • ​Learning Objective: Use environmental themes to reinforce lessons in math, science, English, and social studies.
  • Activity: Downloadable curriculum for grades K-6
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stream education_curriculum.pdf
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File Type: pdf
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Biology

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Dress Like A Beaver
  • Learning Objective:  Students learn about busy beavers.
  • Activity:  Learn about a beaver’s habitat and adaptations by dressing a classmate like a beaver!
Links In A Chain
  • Learning Objective: Discover that a stream ecosystem is diverse and supports many different species. Stream life is linked together in a food chain.
  • Activity:  Teams of students compete in a relay race to build a stream food chain with links of different species. 
Turdle Hurdles
  • Learning Objective:​ Ecosystems can change gradually or dramatically as with adaptations of sea turtles.
  • Activity:  Students will learn about sea turtles then play a game to see that there are many things that can affect the sea turtle's survival. 
  • Large space needed such as a gymnasium or outdoor field.

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Opportunity from Green Ninja!
 
Students often have questions about climate change including recent events like extreme weather and the west coast wildfires. If your students would benefit from having a climate scientist visit your class, please book Dr. Eugene Cordero for a fun 15-minute Q&A session.

Dr. Eugene Cordero is a climate scientist and professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University. He is also the Founder of Green Ninja and an extreme burrito aficionado who goes by the name of Dr. Burrito.

Book today to help support your curriculum on climate change!
Book Today

Additional Online Resources From Partner Agencies:
Environmental Education Council of Ohio
Ohio Division of Wildlife Online Resources
Natural Habitat Adventures Webinars
National Environmental Education Foundation
NASA's Earth Observatory
Eco-Schools USA
Ohio EPA Environmental Education
Children & Nature Network
Mother Nature's Classroom
Green Ninja
TeacherVision
The Prepared Parent: TeacherVision Plus Family Education
National Association of Conservation Districts
National Science Technology Association eBooks
NASA's Vital Signs of he Planet
Project WET Distance Learning
Project WILD Remote Learning
Project WILD Safe Learning Adaptations
Ohio Bat Working Group
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  • Home
    • About
    • Contact Us
    • NRCS Partner
    • Board Supervisors
    • Staff
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Events
    • AG Chat Series
    • Urban Chats
    • Stream Clean Ups
    • Stream Encounters
    • Tree Sale
  • Technical Services
    • Land Preservation
    • Property Owner Assistance >
      • Drainage, Pond & Stream Assistance
      • Soils & Erosion Assistance
      • Dam Safety Program
      • Test Your Water
    • Backyard Conservation >
      • Ohio Native Plants
      • Rain Gardens
      • Rain Barrels
      • Composting
    • Agriculture >
      • Cover Crops
    • Urban >
      • Stormwater Basin Inspection Program
      • Illicit Discharge Detection Program
      • GIS/Mapping
      • Natural Resource Review
    • Earth Disturbing in Warren County
  • Education
    • Programs
    • Virtual Classroom
    • Program Loan Portal
    • Contests
    • Scholarship Opportunities
    • HS Envirothon
    • Educator Workshops
  • Caesar Creek Collaborative
  • Operation Rain Garden
  • Media
    • Conservation Connection: A Blog
    • Education Connection: A Blog
    • Newsletters
    • Annual Reports
    • Articles