Leader/Teacher Resources

Maywoods Wildlife Remote Camera

Maywoods Leader's Manual

Maywoods' Leader's Manual has been designed to help all leaders have a successful and enjoyable outdoor, environmental educational experience with their group at Maywoods. As a first step in planning a trip to Maywoods, read through the information presented in the manual. Feel free to duplicate any of the information in this manual which would be helpful in planning your group's visit.

Equipment for Loan

The Division of Natural Areas is pleased to announce the establishment of it's "Teacher Resource Lending Program". The goal of the program is to provide access to technology and resources for inservice and preservice teachers interested in bringing environmental education to the classroom. Since this is a new program, certain criteria for borrowing the equipment have been established. To be eligible to check out any of the equipment, inservice and preservice teachers must have attended any of the ISMAM activities offered and/or attended a EKU science education class or workshop.

The standard rental time for the equipment is one week. Upon request, special arrangements can be made if a longer rental period is needed. The method of transporting the equipment will be determined at the time of the rental reservation. It will be important to reserve the equipment in advance,as much as possible, in order to insure obtaining the equipment for the dates requested and the best delivery method can be arranged.

To reserve and check out any equipment, please call the Division of Natural Areas at 859-622-1476 between 8am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday or e-mail: Dr. Melinda Wilder, Natural Areas' Director; or Karen Pratt, Administrative Assistant.

Equipment

• Laptop Computers - 10 Dell laptops with all the software needed to run the Lego robots, digital microscopes, etc.
• Zoom Microscope with Digital Camera, Motic Digiscope DS-300 - 8 Kits
  Kits contained in backpacks include: Microscope body, ocular, digital camera, plastic dust cover and two stage slides (one opaque with hole and one transparent with cap)
• AC Adaptors - 5 units
• Battey Chargers - 4/8 battery charger units; 3/4 battery charger units
• GPS eTrex personal navigators - 4 units
• USB Cables - 13 units

Cameras

• Digital Cameras - 9 cameras
  Each Sony DSC-H2 digital camera comes in a camera case containing: 1 USB cable, 1 A/V cable, 1 power cord, batteries, Cyber-shot application software, instructions and 512 MB memory stick.
• Stealth Cameras
• Stealth Camera Battery Packs

Calculators/CBLs

• CBL with TI 73 Graphing Calculators - 14 sets
  Units come in a lunch bag containing: 1 Voltage sensor, 1 Light sensor and a Temperature probe
• TI-83 Calculators - 14 units
• CBL'S - 24 units
• TI View Screens - 2 units
  Screens come in carrying case with appropiate cables

Electrodes, Probes and Sensors

Robots

• Lego Mind Storm Robotics Invention System 20 - 2 Complete boxed kits
  A robot kit includes: 1 brick, 1 intra-red transmitter, a motor, experimental parts and motor. Additional construction pieces are available. Pieces are checked out individually. Software to run the robots is loaded on available laptops
  Separate pieces and other items include:
• Bricks - 15 units
• Infra-red Transmitters - 13 units
• Individual construction pieces
• Lego Mind Storm Robotic Invention System Books - 14 books
• Game Boards - 14 boards

Interactive Software

Math Software	Science Software
Prime Time Math Series(Grades 4-9) Titles: Adrift! Cliftbound! Emergency! Fire! Lost! Stakeout!	Science Court Series (Grades 4-6) Titles: Electric Current Fossils Gravity Inertia Living Things Particles in Motion Seasons Statistics Water Cycles Work and Simple Machines
Math Mysteries (Grades 4-7) Titles: Advanced Fractions Advanced Whole Numbers Measurements	The Great Ocean Rescue (Grades 5-8)
Graph Master (Grades 4-7)	The Great Solar System Rescue (Grades 5-8)
Hot Dog Stand: Top Dog	Rainforest Researcher (Grades 5-8)
	Starry Night EDU (Astonomy software)




Videos

Title	Year	Produced by	Time length	Grade Level
Aquatic Habitats	1987	Discovery Channel	60 mins.	6-12
Biodiversity 911		World Wildlife Fund and Aardman	12 mins
Blight	1997	NBC News	3.21 mins
The Earth at Risk Environmental Video Series Titles: Acid Clean Air Clean Water Degradation of the Land Extinctin Global Warming Nuclear Energy/Waste The Ozone Layer The Rainforest Recycling	1993	Schlessinger Video Productions	30 mins.	5-12
The Lorax	1972	Playhouse Video	30 mins.
Strange Days on Planet Earth Video 1: Invaders The One Degree Factor Video 2: Predators Troubled Water	2005	National Geographic	60 mins/Title
Population and World Resources	2005	Distribution Access	31 mins.
Sustainable Futures	2005	The Video Project	38 mins.
Workd in Balance	2004	NOVA	120 mins.




DVDs

Title	Produced by	Year
After the Storm	EPA and The Weather Channel	2006
Common Ground and Cleaner Water	KET in Partnership with the Commonwealth Water Education Project	2006
Dr. Clark's Kentucky Treasures	KET, The Kentucky Network	2006
Eyes on Mars	Space Holding Corp	2003
Virtual Water Treatment Plant Tour	Office of Water United States Environmental Protection Agency	2006