Description

Aligned with both Texas and California education standards, this elementary science kit with manual contains classic 6^th grade hands-on experiments that can be incorporated into virtually any elementary science curricula.

Research confirms that hands-on science experimentation fosters deeper understanding of course materials. It offers a critical balance to any virtual courses by improving student motor skills, providing sensory feedback, and relieving screen fatigue.

Each kit includes most of the materials needed for the labs (other than common household items), a manual that provides step-by-step guidance, a student journal, and a teacher’s answer key.

These kits are specifically for the laboratory segment of a course, while the remainder of the curriculum should be taught using a standard textbook.

The Labs

MATTER AND ENERGY

1. Elements: Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals

2. Density and the Case of the Lost Gold Bar

3. Properties of Rock-Forming Minerals

4. Fast Rusting and Chemical Reactions in a Bag

FORCE, MOTION, AND ENERGY

5. Energy Transformations

6. Roadblocks and Energies

7. Pulleys

8. Amazing Molecules in Motion

EARTH AND SPACE; AND ENERGY IN THE EARTH SYSTEM

9. Layers of the Earth

10. The Rock Cycle

11. Plate Tectonics

12. Finding an Earthquake’s Epicenter

13. The Sun and Weather: Angle of the Sun

14. Visible and Invisible Light from the Sun: The EMS

15. Topography

16. Planetary Orbits

17. Gravity

18. Space Travel

ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS

19. Cell Modeling: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

20. Classification

21. Biotic and Abiotic Factors in a Habitat

22. Ecosystem Explorations: How is an Ecosystem Organized?

Materials and Equipment included with the kit

0.1M HCl (hydrochloric acid)

7 unknown elements

24-well reaction plate

Alligator clip wires (6)

Balloon

Beakers, 15-mL, 50-mL, and 150-mL

Brine shrimp eggs

Bromothymol blue

Calcium chloride pellets (driveway salt)

Candle

Cardstock hole punches

Clothespins (2)

Coffee filters

Colored pencils

Conductivity tester with 9-volt battery

Copper wire, thin (2)

Copper and zinc metal strips (5 each)

Cup, small foam

Cups (9) clear plastic, 9-oz. (reusable)

Cups, small sauce cups (2-oz.) (4)

Diffraction gradient

Drawing compass

Drinking straw

Fishing line (5 m) and (1 m)

Food coloring (red and green) (Labs 2, 8, and 11)

Funnel, small

Glass plate

Graduated cylinder, 10-mL

Irregularly shaped object (small rock)

Labels (20, small)

LED lights (2)

Magnet (Labs 3B and 4)

Magnifying glass

Marble, 10 mm

Mineral samples: pyrite, quartz, calcite, fluorite, 2 mystery samples

Nitinol memory wire

Pencil

Permanent marker

Play-Doh®, 2-3 colors

Protractor

Pulleys, single and tandem

Push pins (2)

Rubber bands

Ruler, metric

Safety goggles

Sand in container with lid

Scoop, 1-mL

Solar plane

Spiral cut-out with string

String (30 cm)

Spring scale, 100 g

Steel nail

Steel wool, fine

Styrofoam balls (2 halves)

Support board

Tape measure, metric (Labs 6 and 7)

Tea bags, red (2)

Thermometer

Tile

Toothpicks (20)

Toy car

Transparent plastic sheet

Unknown metal bar

UV reacting beads

Washers (5)

Wood sticks

Yeast

Yo-yo

Zip top bag, quart size

Zip top bag, sandwich size (2)