Description: Designed for the Burke’s 2002 exhibit, The Big One: Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, this kit includes slinkies, a model seismograph, and foam models for exploration of seismic waves, tsunamis, and plate boundaries. Background information focuses on the basics of earthquakes, particularly on reasons why so many occur in Washington State. Books, videos, and curriculum manual included. Introduction, background material, and activities are online.

Description: Most of the fossils in this collection are of the Paleozoic era (225 to 570 million years ago) and include trilobites, blue-green algae, crinoids and blastoids (relatives of sea stars and sea urchins), graptolites (small colonial marine animals), and some ancient plant fossils.

Description: Both animal and plant fossil materials are represented in this collection. Included are a cast skull of Seymouria, a vertebra from Dimetrodon, a cast tooth from Tyrannosaurus, a fin-spine from Edaphosaurus, a cast skull of Thrinaxodon, a cast tooth of a hadrosaur, gastroliths, leaves of various plants, petrified wood, and egg fragments from Hypselosaurus. This collection also has an online interactive component.

Description: The collection includes fossils from the Eocene to the Pleistocene (50 million to 10,000 years ago), such as teeth from Mesohippus (horse), Physeter (sperm whale), Teleoceras (rhinoceros), a mastodon, Megalonyx (ground sloth), and Smilodon (saber tooth cat), crocodile toe bones, and insects in amber.

Description: This general collection includes fossils from the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic eras, such as trilobites, plants, corals, sea snails, clams, brachiopods, and a mammoth tooth.

Description: In this collection, 54 small specimens are grouped as follows: rock-forming minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, metallic ore minerals, and other substances. This collection also has an online interactive component.

Description: This collection includes eleven types of igneous rock, collected on and around Mt. Rainier, a geological map showing where they were collected, three videos, and an extensive curriculum developed by Mt. Rainier National Park.