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.

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! 

Geology

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.
Stream Table
  • Learning Objective: Geologic processes affect change on the Earth’s surface.
  • Activity: A Riverlab  stream model is used to illustrate different erosion and deposition processes on a natural landscape.

Fossils

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

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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Biology

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.