Environmental Education

More information about the Envirothon in Pennsylvania, information about the PA State event, information about the National event, and current study resources can be found at www.envirothonpa.org.

There is an Envirothon App now available. This is the link from the Envirothonpa.org site.

(Just a note – there have been some folks out there claiming to have Envirothon study apps that require payments – those are NOT the official app. The ONLY official app is FREE).

FORESTRY

• 2 Tree & Log Scale Sticks
• 2 Sets of Tree Rounds (5 each of 6 species – ash, basswood, red oak, white pine, red pine, and walnut) w/ activity sheet masters
• 1 Leaf ID Kit – includes 39 real tree leaves carded, labeled and bagged (one set of 13 is identified and two sets are not), booklet with 8 hands on activities, leaf key, Tree Finder tree ID book
• 1 Seed ID Kit – includes 39 real tree seeds carded, labeled and bagged (one
  set of 13 is identified and two sets are not), booklet with 7 hands on activities, seed key
• 1 Set of leaf printing stamps (1 ea. sugar maple, white oak, ginkgo, elm, tulip tree, red oak)
• 1 Set of “Leaves & Seeds of Common PA Trees”
• 1 BioQuest “Biodiversity Tree Study Kit”
• Clinometers and prisms – they are small and somewhat delicate so will not be available to borrow, but Russ Gibbs will have them to be able to demonstrate how to use them to do measurements if you request his help.

WILDLIFE

• 1 set track molds (21 native PA mammals & birds)
• 1 set of 3 “Tracking Clue Card Games” (“Schoolyard”, “Backyard” and “Carnivore Crossroads”)
• 1 deer aging tool (with instructional dvd – dvd is missing – tool is still helpful by using the 3 QDMA You Tube videos “White-tailed deer jawbone aging” parts 1,2 &3)
• 3 real deer jaws of various ages

**“Identiflyers” ( bird calls are available from various sources, but Fayette County and the State Competition will use the “Identiflyer” so make sure the students are familiar with those calls – sometimes the different sources sound very different).

Our office is hosting 1 “Urban Wildlife Kit” which includes furs, skulls, scat, tracks, and a binder containing a key to all the items and facts about these mammals. The skulls include an herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore. This has been put together and made available by the PGC.
For more information about the resources in the “Urban Wildlife Kit” check out this YouTube video from the PGC.
Additional skulls have been added.

AQUATICS

• 2 sets LaMotte Leaf Pack aquatic macroinvertebrate flash cards – 18 cards
• 2 sets LaMotte Aquatic Insect Life Cycle/Habitat flash cards
• 1 “Bugs of the Underworld – A Fly Fisher’s Guide to the Natural History of Aquatic Insects” dvd
• 1 set of preserved macroinvertebrates
• 1 “Guide to Eastern Streams”
• 1 “Guide to Eastern Wetlands”

SOILS

• Calibrated Soil texture samples
• Munsell soil color book
• Soil profile study guide with large soil pit “poster” Soils cont’d
• 1 book – “The Dust Bowl” by Sue Vander Hook
• 1 “Soil Analysis Field Kit”
• 4 Cornell pH test kits

POCKET GUIDES

• 1 set – Pollinators (Includes 1 “Bats”, 1 “Bee & Other Pollinators” & 1 Butterflies & Moths)
• Individual guides
• Bees & Other Pollinators
• Animal Tracking
• PA Birds
• PA Wildlife

This project (new study materials – listed in purple) was financed in part by a grant awarded to Pennsylvania Envirothon from the Community Conservation Partnership Program, using Environmental Stewardship Funds, under the administration of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation.
This project (new study materials – listed in purple) was financed in part by a grant awarded to Pennsylvania Envirothon under the administration of the Shell Oil Company U.S.

Contact Terri Springer at the FCCD to schedule borrowing resource materials.