Many museums and national parks offer traveling trunks. For example, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge has All About Owls and Scats and Tracks. Homestead National Historic Park has Prairie Animals, Prairie Life, and a Buffalo trunk. (Homestead has history trunks, too.) Upper Delaware has Birds of Prey and Wildlife trunks. There is even EduBat, bat Education—not baseball. Do you see a theme? Check with any museum near your home or Co-op. A docent may be willing to make a trip and deliver a program to your Co-op.
NASA offers teacher programs, too, through regional centers, such as The Fairmont, WV Katherine Johnson facility. (If you live in West Virginia, scroll to the bottom and contact Todd Ensign for more information.). Once teachers have training, they may borrow kits, bins with equipment. I used to recruit teachers and home-school parents to attend trainings. Once trained, I borrowed bins, such as IR thermometers.
Most trunks are free. Check! Ask if all shipping costs are included. Call the museum or park managing the traveling trunk program to discuss details. Plan well in advance. Ask a parent in your Co-op who likes to plan or manage logistics to contact the park and book the trunk.
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