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Discovery Boxes
The Virginia Living Museum's Discovery boxes are "museum-in-a-trunk" traveling curriculum modules that teachers use in their own classrooms. Discovery Boxes are designed to stimulate critical thinking and educate through excitement by involving students in active, hands-on learning. The wide variety of objects and resources makes Discovery Boxes effective learning tools for any grade level and allows teachers to customize these materials to fit their curriculum and SOL requirements.
Each topic is developed thematically and contains natural history specimens and artifacts from the Museum's collections for hands-on use by students, as well as activities, audiovisual materials, student and teacher resource information and much more. A teacher resource packet in each box provides background information on each specimen and suggested activities for implementation into the curriculum.
Rental Fee:
Contract schools: $95 per week ($80 for the next consecutive week)
Non-contract schools: $125 per week ($110 for the next consecutive week)
Automatic pick-up and delivery are included!
For more information or to make a reservation, call the Reservations Coordinator at 757-595-9135 Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. email your request to Reservations or complete our on-line request form.
Funded in part by Newport News Shipbuilding.
See how Laurie Sullivan’s classes at K. W. Barrett Elementary School in Arlington used the Natural History of Early Virginia Discovery Box.
Choose from Ten Exciting Topics:
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Amazing Astronomy
Real meterorites,
tektite, earth rocks and minerals identical to those found on the Moon
and Mars, spectrometers, lenses, mirrors, a Rive Ray box, AV materials,
posters, scale model of the solar system, distance to the nearest star
tape, comet balls, childrens' books, reference materials, activity
guides, resource information and more |
Be a Tree
Collections of
leaves, wood, seeds and flowers; real taxidermied mounts of bat, bird,
insects and other tree-associated animals; tree products, bark rubbings
and petrified wood; puppets, AV materials, children's books, reference
materials, activity guides and more |
Digging Dinosaurs
Real dinosaur
bones, teeth and other fossils; Casts of dinosaur skin, eggs and skulls;
dinosaur hatchling sculpture, scale models and puppets; AV materials,
posters, children's books, reference materials, activity guides and
more!
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Hawks to Hummingbirds
Bird skeleton,
feathers, taxidermied bird mounts, fossil cast and puppets; eggs, nests
and embryos; bird bands, bird feeder and bird house; student microscope,
AV materials, posters, children's books, reference materials, activity
guides and more! |
Incredible Insects
Insect mounts,
collections, eggs and architecture; fossil insects and scale models,
insect products, beekeeper hat and gloves and insect eye viewer; student
microscope, AV materials, children's books, reference materials,
activity guides and more! |
Natural History of Early Virginia
Natural items used
by Virginia's Native Americans and Jamestown settlers for survival,
trade, food, jewelry, music and toys. Includes puppets, corn grinding
mortar and pestle with corn to grind, artifacts, animal furs, bone/horn
tools, feathers, jewelry, Native American crafts, skulls with skull key,
AV materials, children's books, reference materials, activity guides,
resource information and more.
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Shark Secrets
Real shark jaws,
shark vertebrae, shark skin and fossil shark teeth; shark embryo and
eggs, shark products, stingray mount, posters, puppets, student
microscope, AV materials, children's books, reference materials,
activity guides and more!
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Snakes Alive
Real snake
skeleton, skull, taxidermied mount; collection of reptiles and
amphibians, snake eggs, embryos, fossils and skins, reptile products,
puppets and posters; AV materials, children's books, reference
materials, activity guides and more!
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Tropical Rainforest
Museum specimens
of insects, crystals, leaves and piranha; skins and feathers of
endangered tropical bird species, rainforest products, scale models and puppets; posters, AV materials, children's books, reference materials, activity guides and more!
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Under the Bay
Museum mounts of
fish, squid, skate and algae; collections of shells, crabs, corals and sea stars; scale models, posters, puppets; children's books, reference
materials and activity guides; student microscope, AV materials and
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For more information or to make a reservation, call the Reservations
Coordinator at 757-595-9135 Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. email your request to Reservations or complete our on-line request form.
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