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Fly Fishing - Fly Tying Educational Trunk
Youth learn about fly fishing and fly tying. Trunk contains ten fly rods with reels, ten sets of fly tying equipment, and educational video and CD, and a three ring binder with hands on activities.

Request the trunk well in advance and specify the approximate number of youth to be involved in the activity so adequate supplies can be included. Users will be charged fro the fly tying supplies used.

This trunk is housed in the Benson County office.


Outdoor Survival Skills Educational Trunk
Trunk is composed of an easy to use curriculum, objects to assist in teaching each topic area, additional resources (including books, pamphlets, etc) and activity sheets for each topic. Topics covered are:

  • Basic Survival Skills
  • Outdoor Tips & Tricks
  • Poisonous Plants
  • First Aid
  • Fire Building
  • Outdoor Cooking
  • Weather Awareness

This trunk is housed in the Burleigh County office.


The following trunks are housed in Morton County Office:

Digital Camera Trunk #2
Includes: 10 Kodak digital cameras, HP 375 Photosmart printer, software for editing photos on computer, photo printer and software, PowerPoint presentation on Mega FUN with Mega Pixels and leaders resource binder.

Eat Smart! Play Hard! Trunk
This trunk is filled with games and equipment to emphasize healthy eating and physical activity. The binder includes additional ideas and snack recipes.

Garmin eTrex GPS Trunk
This trunk is designed to teach the basics of Geospatial Positioning. This trunk includes: 10 hand-held Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Units, Leaders resource binder, GPS basic PowerPoint, instructions books, PC interface cables to connect GPS unit to computer, and 10 laminated instruction sheets on how to facilitate an elementary Scavenger Hunt.

Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Trunk #2
This trunk is designed to teach the basics of Geospatial Positioning. This trunk includes: 10 hand-held Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Units, Leaders resource binder, GPS basic PowerPoint, instructions books, PC interface cables to connect GPS unit to computer, and 10 laminated instruction sheets on how to facilitate an elementary Scavenger Hunt.

Geocaching Trunk
This trunk includes: 6 Garmin eTrex GPS unites, Geocaching instructions, and books on Geocaching.

Lego Control Lab Starter Kit
Build robot models and use computers to program them. Discover important technology concepts through challenging, open-ended design activities. Step-by-step building cards help get you started.

Lego Simple and Motorized Machines
This 275 piece construction set is a wide-range tool for exploring simple machines and adds the concept of motorization. A 9-volt motor enables youth to bring their projects to life.

Lego Cities and Transportation Construction Set
Expand your robotic skills and knowledge using the Cities and Transportation Set. This set teaches real-life applications of automated devices. Build exciting models to explore four different topics: Simple Traffic Control, Traffic Monitoring, Intelligent Vehicles and City Planning. The four applications cover, in a step-by-step manner, computer concepts such as creating and storing sequences of instructions and using input/output mechanisms.

Lego Crazy Action Contraption
This trunk is for youth ages 7 and up who love to build and invent. Comes with step-by-step instructions and supplies to build 10 contraptions including a rubber band racer, spinning tops, a balloon-powered rocket car, and automatic field goal kicker, a ping pong popper, a candy machine and more!!

Orienteering Trunk
Trunk includes 5 compasses, 1 package dry-erase markers, 3 topographical maps and guide book.

Pop Bottle Rocket Trunk
Pop bottle rocket launcher and accessories, tire pump and curriculum.

Scrapbooking Trunk #2
This trunk is designed to encourage youth to record and preserve their memories and/or heritage using photographs, journaling, memorabilia, and embellishments. This trunk includes: resource binder, cutting tools, limited amount of paper, stickers, adhesives, markers/pens, and scissors.

Beef Learning Laboratory Kit
This resource contains masters of the learning laboratory kit contents-situation/task statements, charts and diagrams, identification tags, and instructions.

Horse Learning Laboratory Kit

This kit contains: animal skeleton structure poster, feed and seed samples, injection sites poster, ground handling horses safely video and much more!

Sheep Learning Laboratory Kit
This kit contains: Animal part identification poster, wholesale meat cut poster, disease matching cards and much more!

Swine Learning Laboratory Kit
This kit contains: educators curriculum guide, animal skeleton structure poster, ear notches, color loin prints, meat science CD-Rom, and much more!

Quilting for Fun
Includes five sewing machines, basic sewing supplies and lesson materials needed to complete a beginner quilt for approximately 5 participants.

Last updated: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:32:38PM

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North Dakota Center for 4-H Youth Development
NDSU Dept 7280, FLC 219
PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Phone: (701) 231-7251
Fax: (701) 231-8568