SRC: Materials for Loan

SRC Contact Information: Phone: (216) 231-2075 | Fax: (216) 231-9960 | E-mail: SRC@cmnh.org  

Dioramas

Bring a piece of the Museum into your classroom. Our dioramas are ready for your use! The Science Resource Center has more than 70 unique dioramas on topics including amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, insects, mammals and Native Americans. Many come with a hands-on teaching kit. Click here to view the full list of dioramas.

Videotapes and DVDS

We have more than 120 titles in stock.

Thematic teaching kits

We’ve refreshed many of our teaching kits over the summer with new hands-on materials and updated teaching guides! Click here to learn more about our thematic teaching kits.

Health Props Bin
Stocked full of health props such as a human heart replica, giant set of teeth, and a bag of plush microbes.

Portable Planetarium
Bring the night sky to your students! We have two portable planetariums available for loan to educators. Our portable planetarium is a cross-curricular teaching tool for astronomy, Earth science and more that can be brought right into the classroom.

It includes everything needed to present interactive, exciting lessons: an inflatable dome, projector, fan and accessories. Inside the dome, a projector displays a variety of images on a 180 degree-by-360-degree hemisphere. Starfield With Milky Way, Biological Cell (mitosis and meiosis), Constellations, African Mythology, Native American Mythology, Greek Mythology and World Geography.

The dome can fit 25 to 35 people. It is accessible to those in wheelchairs and anyone not comfortable crawling through the entry tunnel. Training is required. Please see the listing of Science Resource Center workshops for training session dates and times offered.

Fee for Portable Planetarium
SRC member: $40 per day; nonmember: $50 per day

Other materials

Microscopes, activity guides, big books, puppets, reference books, children’s books, and slide projectors

SRC: Borrowing Policies and Procedures

Membership to the Science Resource Center is required to borrow any items we loan. You must be an educator to borrow materials (classroom teacher, certified home-school parent or educator in an informal setting such as a nature center).

Our satellite location at the Carol H. Sweet Nature Center at Mentor Marsh will house and loan a few specialized kits and other materials. Call for more details.

• Standard loan period is two weeks.
• Loan requests can be made by phone, e-mail or in person during open hours.
• The educator, or a designated representative, must pick up and return all materials.
• Reserved items will not be held beyond the initial reservation date without notification.
• Items may be renewed over the phone for one additional loan period, provided the item is available. 
• No individual or school member may have an item more than a total of four weeks during any one school year.
• Borrower assumes all responsibility for lost or damaged items and will be assessed an actual replacement cost for item.
• Borrowing privileges will be revoked for failure to pay fine(s) in full or to return borrowed items.
• Overdue fees: $10 per day for kits and dioramas; 50 cents per day for other items