Educational Materials Available

The Education Services program has a variety of educational resource materials available. Please email us to check availability and to request materials. These materials are available free of charge.

Some of the materials available include:

• Fishing Kits

• Lending Trunks

• Fishes of the Dakotas poster

• AcroBATS! booklet & poster

• Backyard Birds of South Dakota booklet

• Sharing Your Space backyard wildlife booklet

• Fledgling Birder booklet & poster

• Fish Trading Cards (available in 5 card packs; total set includes 25 species; a limited number of complete sets are available for educators only)

• Track Identification of SD Furbearers pamphlet (download below)

• A Field Guide to South Dakota Amphibians (download below)

• A Field Guide to South Dakota Turtles (download below)

• Threatened & Endangered Species Trading Cards (available in 5 card packs; total set includes 30 species; a limited number of complete sets are available for educators only)

• Wildlife of South Dakota brochure (download below)

• South Dakota Snakes booklet (more info here)

• Common Fishes of South Dakota booklet (download below)

• Shorebirds of South Dakota booklet

• Basic Fishing booklet

• Fragile Legacy booklet (endangered species); limited quantities: 25 copies per school

• Furbearer Trading Cards (available in 5 card packs; total set includes 32 species; a limited number of complete sets are available for educators only)

• Dakota WILD newsletter (online & hard copy)

• Dakota WILD e-mail newslist

Publications that you can download now, print, photocopy and use to teach your students, kids, or grandparents about South Dakota fish & wildlife (in Acrobat .pdf format):

• An Educator’s Curriculum and Resource Guide for Fragile Legacy (a 12 MB Word version is available upon request)

• Aquatic Nuisance Species Lesson Plans (grades 4-12)

• Common Water Insects brochure

• Track Identification of SD Furbearers brochure

• Common Fishes of South Dakota booklet

• Fishing Word Search

• Hunting Word Search

• Fishing Crossword

• Hunting Maze

• Fishing Maze

• Fishing ABCs coloring book (courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service)

• Wildlife of South Dakota pamphlet (the original document is 11x17" but it can be printed 8.5x11")

• The Natural Source is a web site created by Northern State University. It contains fact sheets and activities about a host of South Dakota creatures, plants, and habitats. 

• A Field Guide to South Dakota Turtles (from SD State University)

• A Field Guide to South Dakota Amphibians (from SD State University)

Non-education oriented publications are also available. These include Hunting & Fishing Handbooks, Hunting Atlases, etc. We have a healthy supply of back issues of the Conservation Digest available for classroom use & projects. These can be great resources for research projects and sources of photos for art projects. Email us to request these materials.

We also have three publications available for purchase. This includes the Field Guide to Butterflies of South Dakota, The Wild Turkey in South Dakota and Wild Mammals of South Dakota. These materials can be purchased online.