The IDL, located in the Education Resource Library, houses a variety of consumable and published materials to help preservice teachers create interesting and lively lessons. On the IDL shelves are handbooks in all curriculum areas, art posters and materials, kits and games, manipulatives for mathematics teaching, and equipment for science experiments. Bins containing recyclable materials is replenished each semester. Visitors to the IDL might see Education students busily at work designing lessons for their courses and field placements, or children in our after-school program completing crafts projects under the guidance of SSC Education student group leaders