Education Kits

Kits available from Fairbanks Public Lands Information Center
Contact Besty at 907-456-0527 Fairbanks to reserve kits.
 
 

Educational kits are can be reserved ahead of time - up to 3 months in advance. 

1. Call the center and request a kit
2. Kits are loaned for 1-2 weeks at a time (1-2 weeks is given for shipping out, you keep the kit for 1-2 weeks and then 1-2 weeks is given for shipment back in). They allow 1 month total for check-out and return of kit.
3. You may only check out one kit at a time.

1. A $20 deposit will be taken at time of check-out.  A credit card nuymber will be taken over the phone.
2. Kits must be postmarked by due date.
3. Deposit will be refunded upon receipt of the kit on time and inteact. 
4. APLIC pays for postage sent, borrower is responsible for ostage returned.

The NPS staff at AAPLIC also has aResource Library with curriculum, books, games, tapes, posters & videos for classroom use. 
 

Alaska's Loons
Grades k-12
This kit will help you teach children about the four species of loons in alaska and what people can do to preserve loon habitat. Slides, videos, costumes, and lots of activities.

Bird Kit
contains over 20 study skins of interior Alaskan birds.  Students learn to identify birds based on physical adaptations, behavior, and habitat.

Bird Study Skins Kit
Contains study skins of many interior Alaskan Bird species.  It does not contain any lesson plans and may be checked out alone or with the bird kit.

Compass and Map Kit
Wondering where you are? Interested inorienteering? This kit includes 30 Silva Startercompasses for use by students. Also includes ademonstrator compass, Outward Bound Map &Compass Book, Teach with Topos, and otherbooks.

Gold Rush Kit
Take a fun look at Alaska's history and learn why people rushed for gold.  See how people survivied the hardships of the mining life and see the lasting legacy they left behind.

Great Alaskan Mystery Box
Contains videos, books, slides, puppets, and a myriad of student activities...all about Alaska.  Kit is geared for 4th-6th grades and may be reserved for one month.

Groundwater kit
Nine sequential hands-on-activities address the issue of water quality, the water cycle, and groundwater pollution and protection

Insect and spider kit
Students learn about insects in the field and in the classroom using insect specimens, videos, posters, and classroom activities.

Mammal  Kit
Learn about mammals and their lifestyles and habitats with an emphasis on alaskan species.  Kit contains skulls, pelt pieces, latex track and scat replicas with related lesson plans.

Marine Mammals kit
Contains lesson plans, puppets, a video, books, posters, and games to teach students about Alaska's marine mammals.

Minerals kit
contains mineral samples, information, posters, lesson plans, and experiments for learning about geology and the history of mining in Alaska.

Owl Pellet Kit
Are you studying bones? Try a unique means ofteaching by dissecting an owl pellet. Owls,hawks and other raptors swallow their preywhole and later regurgitate a pellet containingcomplete skeletons of rodents, moles, shrews,and birds. (The pellets are sanitized.) The kidsdiscover each new bone with excitement andfun... they can even reconstruct a skeleton! Thisis the only kit which involves a charge ...$2.50 per owl pellet ( ed discount alreadyincluded).

Songbird Blues Kit
Migratory songbirds are the focus of this new kitfrom the Montana Natural History Associationand the National Park Service. It has beenspecially adapted to fit Alaskan songbird speciesand includes a teacher's activity guide, videos,books, student research kits, posters, songbirdcassettes, puppets and much more! A greatresource for teaching about birds!

Stampeder Kit
Smaller version of the Gold Rush Kit and focus' primarily on the Klondike gold Rush.  The kit has lessons plans, a video, and a gold poke!

Trees Kit
Contains curriculum notebooks, books, student research kits, videos, story board, posters, and puppets.

Water Kit
Teaches students about our most precious resource.  Activities show ho water is important, the water cycle, and how we use and can conserve our water resources.

Wetlands kit
Students visit a wetland with a story action game and explore plants and animals of wetlands.