Teaching Kits
Please call 801.537.3300 to reserve a kit. Kits must be picked up and returned to the UGS office at the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Building at 1594 West North Temple, Salt Lake City.
Landforms kits contain fault blocks, Wasatch fault fly-by video, maps, PowerPoint presentation, teaching manual, and activities geared to the 5th-grade core curriculum.
Loan period: Two weeks
Deposit: $50.00 refundable
Ice Age kits contain 14 fossil specimens including a giant sloth claw and musk ox horn, Utah relief map showing glaciers and Lake Bonneville, PowerPoint presentation, and a teaching manual.
Loan period: Two weeks
Deposit: $50.00 refundable
Rock, Mineral, and Fossil kits contain 70 specimens, Utah fossil environment map with information, mineral testing kit, teaching manual, and activities geared to the 4th- and 8th-grade core curriculum.
Loan period: One month
Deposit: $50.00 refundable
Dinosaur kits contain 36 cast specimens, including skin impressions, teeth, claws, a Stegosaurus plate, teaching aids, and teaching manual.
Loan period: Two weeks
Deposit: $100.00 refundable
Stream Tables include sand; a 4’ x 1’ tray; buckets, easy-to-use gravity plumbing, and teaching manual. Self-contained trays help prevent messes.
Loan period: Two weeks
Deposit: $50 refundable
Glacier Model and teaching manual.
Loan period: Two weeks
Deposit: $50 refundable
Plate Tectonics Globe with detachable plates (plate puzzle).
Loan period: Two weeks
Deposit: $50 refundable
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