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Diversity Boxes

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These collections enhance the classroom experience with exciting hands-on teaching aids

These are small treasure chests filled with teaching units, real museum specimens, games, posters, videos, puppets and much, more! Comprehensive teacher guides are included.

Borrow a diversity box and bring teaching to life for your students.

Choose from five collections of instructional materials, free of charge!

Diversity Boxes are available for loan, on a two week basis, by calling 937-890-7360

The five topics are:

| Migrant Birds in Balance | Focus on Flight | Ohio Ecology | Biodiversity | Threatened Earth/Endangered Life |

• Explore the world of notropical migrant birds, who winter in Central and South America and return to North America to breed each year.
• Become acquainted with the beauty and diversity of these fragile animals with actual specimens.
• Learn about life in the tropical rainforest as you build your own classroom rainforest.
• Work together at role-playing and problem-solving games to better understand indigenous cultures of the tropical rainforests.

• Explore the world of flight through the animals that do it best; the birds,insects and bats.
• Study the behavior, ecology and adaptations for flight of these winged creatures.
• Fly with the monarchs to Mexico.
• Build a refuge for birds, butterflies or bats.
• Students are encouraged to "navigate" paper airplanes around the classroom as they explore the history and basic physics of human flight.

• Explore Ohio's natural history and biodiversity through a study of native flora and fauna.
• Survey the arthropods from barnacles to crayfish and tarantulas.
• Bring teaching alive with actual amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal specimens.
• Students will master skills of observation and description while using a simple key to identify trees.
• Explore Ohio's geological past and learn how events of the past have affected Ohio's vegetation today.

• Explore the richness, interconnectedness and interdependency of life on Earth from living things minute to mighty.
• Survey the animal kingdom and view the transformation of several insects from egg to adult.
• Follow raccoon tracks to a stream and learn how to identify trees in the winter by their twigs.
• Emphasis is placed on the plant and animal kingdoms, as adaptations, food webs and natural communities are explored.

• Examine the lives of several endangered species including the manatee, grizzly bear, rhino and more. Learn why these animals have declined in numbers and what is being done to help them.
• Delve into many human-induced threats to the planet, including human overpopulation, habitat destruction, consumerism and global warming.
• Students learn how to take action in the local community and abroad by getting involved.