Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area - Traveling Trunks (U.S. National Park Service)

Traveling Trunks are available for loan from Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. These traveling trunks serve as mini-museums helping you bring a variety of subjects to life in your classroom. They can be set up as exhibits, used in conjunction with other units or used to kick-off, or conclude your study.

Each trunk contains a variety of "hands-on" objects, books, videos and a resource guide. They are available for up to 4 weeks (including shipping time). If you are interested in using a trunk during the summer, for year round schools, please contact the park's education department for special date arrangements.

There is no rental fee for the trunks, the park ships the trunk to your school and the return shipping is your school's responsiblity.

Scultped, Scoured and Scraped:

An Eastern Washington Geology Experience

3^rd-6^th Grades

Lake Roosevelt boasts some of the most interesting geology in the state of Washington. Starting 17 million years ago, sheets of volcanic lava flowed from giant cracks in the earth near the Washington/Oregon/Idaho border and covered eastern Washington. Ice Age glaciers covered much of the northern part of Washington and blocked rivers, like the Columbia, forming giant lakes. One such giant lake, Glacial Lake Missoula in Montana, ruptured its ice dam and unleashed some of the largest floods that mankind has ever known onto the plains of eastern Washington.

This trunk illustrates many of the geologic forces that have shaped eastern Washington in the past and continue to shape the landscape today. The trunk comes with videos, visual aids, rock samples, and equipment as well as a curriculum guide that addresses the geologic processes central to the history of eastern Washington.

Avian Mystery Kit

4th-8^th Grades

Student Maximum: 27 (the number of puzzle pieces) for each time you conduct the program.

Program Requirements:

A 10 foot wide and a minimum of 52 inch tall wall area where a sheet of felt fabric can be anchored to the wall.

Program Overview:

This mystery program has students sharing information from a puzzle piece about a bird as the puzzle is completed. Once the puzzle is completed they will know which bird they have been describing. Through this program students will be able to describe the status of the American Bald Eagle; identify at least 3 reasons for their decline; identify how protection under the Environmental Protection Act has helped it’s recovery [actions to improve status] and identify locations near them where they can observe Bald Eagles. Shhhh! Don’t tell them what the program is about! The less they know the more fun it is!

The 3 D’s of Fort Spokane Trunk

3^rd-9^th

Trunk Overview:

Explores why the fort was established by the military, why and how it was subsequently used as an Indian Boarding School and later a tuberculosis hospital. The trunk includes a teacher guide with lessons and information, several DVDs, books, historical photos, replica artifacts, replica military uniforms and more. Can be used before or after your class visits the Fort Spokane site.