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Learning Kits

*We provide free delivery of learning kits to all educators.

The Flathead Audubon Society offers free educational kits for teachers and home-schoolers focused on birds, their habitats, and conservation. These hands-on materials enhance class units on birds and their habitat, providing unique and engaging learning experiences for students.

To find out more about these Learning Kits, click on a specific kit in the scroll-down menu, or contact Jess Garby, our Education Coordinator, at jess@flatheadaudubon.org.

Preschool Bird Costume
Preschool Bird Anatomy Costume

Flathead Audubon Learning Kits:

(kits can be checked out for a maximum of one week)

Chickadee Who’s Who: Bird ID Basics (1 box)

Owls of Montana (1 Kit, in 3 boxes)

Snowy Owls: Whoo are They?(1 box)

Riparian Wetlands: Birds and the River (1 box, 1 large map tube)

Bird Anatomy and Pre-school/Early Primary Costume (3 different kits in 3 boxes)

Common Birds of the Flathead (1 box)

Our Changing Neighborhood Storyboard (1 box)

Cavity Nesters (1 Kit, in 2 boxes)

Hummingbirds (1 box)

Wetland Kids! (1 box)

I’m Made of Water! (1 box)

Sandhill Cranes (1 box, for autumn learning sequence and field trip)

Winter Birds of Prey (1 box, for winter learning sequence and field trip)

Spring Waterfowl Migrations (1 box, for early spring learning sequence and field trip)

River Bottom Ospreys and Songbirds (1 box, for late spring sequence, field trip)

Bird Field Studies:

  • Field Guides:
    • National Geographic (one box with 20 guides)
  • 6.5 X 32 Eagle Optics binoculars (20 in box)
  • 7 X 35 Nikon binoculars – larger in size (11 in box)
  • Combo box: (20 ‘Montana Birds’ guides, 8  Vector 8×38)

Please note: Four of our new Kits are designed to accompany a 7th-8th grade learning sequence culminating in a field trip. They are reserved during certain seasons for classes enrolled in those sequences, for a maximum of one week’s use. See each kit for specifics.

* We also have Supplemental Materials boxes: (1) Bird Skins, (2) Feathers, (3) Nests and Eggs, (4) Plush Bird Toys and Puppets, and (5) Grow Native School Gardens — which can be checked out individually. Some of these are fragile and one-of-a-kind, but can be reserved online and checked out, same method as the kits.

Check-out Instructions:

https://flatheadaudubon.org/learn/learning-kit-checkout-procedures/