Safari in a Box

Are you looking for a Wildlife Adventure right in your classroom? The Safari in a Box is a kit filled with a variety of animal pelts, skulls, tracks, scat replicas, wildlife fact sheets, activities, videos and posters all neatly packaged in a large tote trunk. A guide to animal skulls, wildlife classroom activities and Project WILD materials are included. You must pick up the trunk and return it to the location from which you borrowed it.

The Sables Club, a part of the Maine Chapter of Safari Club International, has fund raised for most of these trunks in full or part. The Outdoor Heritage Fund has also funded many of these kits.

This convenient, hands-on, activity based teaching kit will help your students understand wildlife identification, management and proper conservation practice. The trunk is a great tool for homeschool groups, for use in school conservation fairs, by scout groups and classroom teachers.

Trunks have been placed at 15 locations statewide. Please contact the facility nearest to you to arrange to borrow the trunk. A small deposit may be required to ensure full return of all materials in the trunk. Length of time the trunk may be lent will vary with the facility. For more information, please contact Lisa Kane, Natural Science Educator, MDIFW Headquarters in Augusta at (207) 287-3303.

Additional locations:

Greenland Point Center
PO Box 333
Princeton, ME 04668
(207) 796-5186
www.greenlandpoint.com

Maine Conservation School
PO Box 188
Bryant Pond, ME 04219
(207) 665-2068
www.meconservationschool.org

Maine Wildlife Park
56 Game Farm Road
Gray, ME 04039
(207) 657-4977
www.mainewildlifepark.com

Safari Club trunks are available for use and/or loan at:
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Attn: Lisa Kane 284 State Street 41 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333 Telephone: (207) 287-3303 Email: lisa.kane@maine.gov	Maine Discovery Museum Attn: Trudi Plummer, Dir. of Education 74 Main Street Bangor, ME 04401 Telephone: (207) 262-7200
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Ashland Regional Office Attn: Brian Gray PO Box 447 Ashland, ME 04732-0447 Telephone: (207) 435-3231 ext. 1	Malcolm Science Center Attn: Debbie Ponn PO Box 186 Easton, ME 04740 Telephone: (207) 488-5451
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Resource Management Office Attn: Diana Harper 650 State Street Bangor, ME 04401 Telephone: (207) 941-4466 Please see note below.	Mount Blue State Park Attn: Bruce Farnham 299 Center Hill Road Weld, ME 04285 Telephone: (207) 585-2261 Email: bruce.farnham@maine.gov
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay Attn: Ed Friedman, Chair 42 Stevens Road Bowdoinham, ME 04008 Telephone: (207) 666-3372 Email: edfomb@gwi.net www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org	Phippsburg Sportsmen's Association Attn: Vicki Moriarty 272 Main Road Phippsburg, ME 04562 Telephone: (207) 442-8950
LC Bates Museum Attn: Deborah Staber, Director Route 201 Hinckley, ME 04944 Telephone: (207) 238-4250	Rangeley Sportsmen's Club Attn: Elaine Holcombe 439 Birches Beach Road Oquossoc, ME 04694 Email: smolt262@hotmail.com
Maine Audubon Society Attn: Kara, EE Director 20 Gilsland Farm Road PO Box 6009 Falmouth ME 04105-6009 Telephone: (207) 781-2330 ext. 212	Wells Nat'l Estuarine Research Reserve Attn: Laura Lubelczyk, Education Dir. 342 Laudholm Farm Road Wells, ME 04090 Telephone: (207) 646-1555 www.wellsreserve.org
Note: The trunk available at the Bangor Office is slightly different than the others listed above. Furbearer Fundamentals is a teacher resource that contains a three-week (or longer), multidisciplinary unit of study that focuses on furbearers found in the northeastern United States. It can be used in its entirety or broken into parts that can be used individually as supplemental educational materials and activities. The informational materials and activities are designed for middle school students, but may be modified to reach both younger and older students. The Furbearer Fundamentals Kit contains pelts, rubber tracks and scat, skulls and reference books, various informational resources on furbearers and regulated wildlife management including: the web site conservewildlife.org on CD, videos on regulated trapping, the Trapping and Furbearer Management in North American Wildlife Conservation booklet and the Trapping in the 21st Century pamphlet.

Kids handling furs and skulls

Kids are able to handle the
furs and skulls in the trunk.

Using the mammal skull identification keys

Activities include using the
mammal skull identification keys.

Envirothon students at work

Envirothon students use activity sheets to become more familiar with the pelts
and skulls in preparation for the regional wildlife test section.

Photo of deer skull Sketch of deer skull

Students in an art class created scale drawings of skulls from the safari trunk kit.

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Safari in a Box

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