Glacier National Park has 4 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.

Glacier Education Trunks Brought to Your School!

What: Glacier's Education Specialist will come to your school with one of the park's education trunks - bear, wolf, FireWorks, songbird, or our new skulls Kit- and guide teachers through the materials, background information and lesson plans to help make using the trunks a snap.
Who: Laura Law, Glacier Education Specialist
When: For 3 hours after school or as part of a PIR day, to be arranged at least 1 month in advance with Glacier's Education Specialist, Laura Law.
Where: At your school.
Cost: Free!
OPI Renewal Units: 3

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Songbird Kit

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.

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Wolf Trunk

The wolf trunk includes pelts, skulls, and prey fur samples. There are also tapes of wolf howls, videos, track casts and an activity guide. This trunk is geared for elementary age students and great for learning about predator/prey relationships and food chains.

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Bear Trunk

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.