With the availability of hands-on teaching material, you can enhance student experiences, enliven your instruction, and integrate subjects within the curriculum.
Natural Science Loan Kits Learn about the natural world through hands-on investigation! With specimens from the Museum’s science collection, you can explore the differences between reptiles and amphibians, identify animals that live in the ocean, and even classify rocks and minerals. Loan kits include real specimens such as study skins, skeletal material, and pressed leaves. The Natural History collection contains approximately 10,000 preserved specimens ~ representing the zoology, botany, and geology of Texas and the Southwest
We customize each loan based on your unit of study. Some creative themes include adaptation, classification, ecosystems, food webs, and even a sampling of the entire collection. We also offer selected loans about the rainforest and Lone Star Dinosaurs.
For more information about natural science loan kits, please email us or call 817-255-9323. Science loans are supported by the Museum’s Science Department.
Social Studies Loan Kits Learn about Social Studies through hands-on history! The Educator Loan Kit Program allows teachers to enhance social studies in their classrooms by providing hands-on experiences with real cultural artifacts as well as books, videos, games, and activities designed to enhance hands-on learning. Background information, descriptions and photographs of the artifacts are included.
The kits are designed to promote cultural and historical understanding and stimulate curiosity while making your lessons enjoyable and memorable. Loan kits help support the TEKS Connections and its content areas. The Social Studies loans are supported by the Museum’s History Department. Social Studies Loan Kits Complete Description and TEKS
Social Studies loan kits include:
The Real Cowboy
The Civil War
Texas Pioneers
Pioneer School Day
Toys of Yesterday
Shoes for Everyone
Inventions: from the Stone Age to the Space Age
Plains Indians and the Buffalo
Texas Archeology
Astronomy: Under Texas Skies
Civil War
King Cotton
Toys Around the World
Australia: Outback Backpack
A Glimpse of Japan
A Glimpse of India
A Glimpse of Mexico
A Glimpse of Africa
Ancient Egypt
World of Rhythm
Whose Shoes?
For more information about social studies loan kits, please email us or call 817-255-9305.
