Stocked with all sorts of goodies: curricula, lesson plans, reference materials, field guides, trade books and journals to help you make nature your favorite teaching theme, no matter what you teach!

RTPI's Teacher Resource Center has the best of the most widely used nature education materials, plus little-known but excellent resources to help you connect trees, streams, birds, and other locally accessible nature to your standards-based curriculum.

• Catch up on your reading in such excellent journals as Connect, Green Teacher and Science and Children.
• Preview and borrow a videotape.
• Search our Resource Files for information on everything from building a bird house to creating a butterfly garden.
• Get the latest on regional nature education organizations and agencies that specialize in everything from astronomy to paleontology.
• Check our bulletin board to learn about opportunities for professional development.
• Choose from a wide selection of classroom sets of field guides to borrow to teach your students how to identify what they find in the schoolyard and beyond.

Peterson Field Guide Series

• Eastern Forests
• Eastern Trees
• Trees and Shrubs
• Eastern Birds
• Animal Tracks
• Insects
• Grasses
• Eastern/North Central Wildflowers

Golden Guide Series

• Pond Life
• Weeds
• Wildflowers
• Trees
• Spiders & Their Kin
• Insects
• Butterflies and Moths
• Reptiles and Amphibians

Finder Series

• Ferns
• Winter Trees
• Winter Weeds
• Tracks
• Birds
• Berries
• Flowers

Plus, the Teacher Resource and Equipment Lending Center has:

• Plant presses
• Terraria Test kits for soi,l water, air
• Hand lenses
• Magiscope microscopes
• DiscoveryScopes_
• Cameras
• D-Frame Nets for collecting aquatic organisms
• Kick Seine for collecting stream organisms
• Sweep Nets and Butterfly Nets for collecting terrestrial insects
• Plankton Net
• Nature sound recording equipment
• spotting scopes
• binoculars
• rubber boots
• hip waders
• Trundle Wheel for measuring distances
• Measuring tapes
• Cruising sticks for measuring trees
• Meter sticks
• Flagged stakes for marking boundaries
• Increment Borer for measuring age of trees