Glacier National Park has 6 educational trunks that are available for local check-out. Trunks are a great way to bring props and materials that are otherwise hard to find to your classroom. There are ideas for stand-alone activities as well as materials that can supplement your own classroom curriculum ideas. Each trunk has a wealth of props and ideas and includes lesson plans that fit Montana Content and Performance Standards for science, math, language arts, music, art, health and wellness, and social studies. Trunks are a fantastic resource for students from pre-K to 12th grade.

All of Glacier’s traveling trunks are free of charge and can be borrowed for 2-4 weeks at a time but must be picked-up and dropped-off in person (Sorry, it is not possible to mail the trunks.) To arrange to borrow a trunk contact Glacier’s Education Specialist.

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The Fireworks trunk teaches students about the physical and chemical properties of fire as well as the role of wildfire in our western landscape. This trunk is packed with exciting experiments, a felt board, wall posters, an interactive CD highlighting native uses of fire, and much more!

This dynamic songbird kit is geared for the classroom as well as outdoors. Resource materials, activities, videos, a felt storyboard, posters, recorded bird songs, and puppets all help students learn more about the natural history of several songbirds.

The wolf trunk is great for learning about predator/prey relationships, food chains, and misconceptions about wolves.  This trunk includes the pelts, skulls, and track samples of wolves and their prey. There are also tapes of wolf howls, videos, DVDs, and track casts. Three different teacher guides based on grade level are also provided.

Background material, research guides, and props included in the bear trunk help facilitate discussions about bears of the world, their habitats, and food sources. Emphasis is on black and grizzly bears, including how to tell them apart and how to hike/camp safely in bear country. An activity guide and sample lesson plans are included.  Upper grades will benefit from additional materials available on the web.

The skulls kit provides students with opportunity to discover the wide variety of characteristics we can learn about an animal from its skull. Contained within this kit are activities utilizing 10 skulls to focus on predators, prey, omnivores, herbivores, and carnivores.

NEW! Climate Change Trunk for Middle School Students

Based on the curriculum from Facing the Future, a non-partisan group committed to providing teachers with resources to teach about global issues and sustainability, this trunk contains 2-weeks of lessons to help students understand climate change and global warming. We have supplemented the lessons with videos, CDs and local materials.