education resources
The Education Services program has a variety of educational resource materials available. Please email us to check availability and to request materials. These materials are available FREE of charge.
Some of the materials available include:
- Fishing Kits
- Lending Trunks / Critter Crates
- Fishes of the Dakota's poster
- AcroBATS! booklet and poster
- Backyard Birds of South Dakota booklet
- Sharing Your Space backyard wildlife booklet
- Fledgling Birder booklet and poster
- Fish Trading Cards (available in 5 card packs; total set includes 25 species; a limited number of complete sets are available for educators only)
- Track Identification of SD Furbearers pamphlet (download below)
- A Field Guide to South Dakota Amphibians (download below)
- A Field Guide to South Dakota Turtles (download below)
- Threatened and Endangered Species Trading Cards (available in 5 card packs; total set includes 25 species; a limited number of complete sets are available for educators only)
- Wildlife of South Dakota brochure (download below)
- South Dakota Snakes booklet (more info here)
- Common Fishes of South Dakota booklet (download below)
- Shorebirds of South Dakota booklet
- Basic Fishing booklet
- Fragile Legacy booklet (endangered species); limited quantities: 25 per school
- Furbearer Trading Cards (available in 5 card packs; total set includes 25 species; a limited number of complete sets are available for educators only)
- Dakota WILD newsletter -join the e-mail newslist
Publications that you can download now, print, photocopy and use to teach your students, kids, or grandparents about South Dakota fish and wildlife (in Acrobat .PDF format):
- An Educator's Curriculum and Resource Guide for Fragile Legacy (a 12 MB Word version is available upon request)
- Common Water Insects brochure
- Track Identification of SD Furbearers brochure
- Common Fishes of South Dakota booklet
- Fishing Word Search
- Hunting Word Search
- Fishing Crossword
- Hunting Maze
- Fishing Maze
- Fishing ABCs coloring book (courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Wildlife of South Dakota pamphlet (the original document is 11x17" but it can be printed 8.5x11")
- A Field Guide to South Dakota Turtles (from SD State University)
- A Field Guide to South Dakota Amphibians (from SD State University)