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Traveling Trunks
 
Traveling Trunk
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The traveling trunk includes many educational items.
Hagerman Fossil Beds offers our amazing traveling trunk. The traveling trunk was developed to help teachers bring the wonders of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument a little closer to students and assist them in better understanding and appreciating this tremendous resource.

Trunks are geared for grades 4-6 or 7-12 and include:
casts of horse skulls, soil samples, books, videos, and curriculum guides. It provides a variety of information about Idaho, as well as paleontology and geology.

Teachers may borrow them for up to one month. There is no charge for their use. The only cost is the return shipping.

Reserve a trunk today!
Horse fossil removed during the 1929 excavation of the Fossil Beds.  

Did You Know?
The Smithsonian began excavating the Fossil Beds in 1929. J.W. Gidley conducted the first excavation. Altogether they conducted 4 major excavations of the area.

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Last Updated: July 28, 2006 at 13:29 EST