Equipment and Supplies Sources

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General science materials and equipment are available by mail from Home Training Tools, Carolina Biological Supply, Delta Education Hands-On Science Catalog, Nasco, Nature’s Workshop, Tobin’s Lab, and Wild Goose Company. Click for information on these companies???

Home Training Tools, operated by a Christian, homeschooling family, puts out an exceptional catalog of science resources. The catalog is arranged topically, with very useful “Quick Tips” interspersed with product descriptions and illustrations. To make it even easier, their “Quick Selection Guide” lists topics and all possible resources in index fashion showing catalog page numbers and recommended age group. Another feature of Home Training Tools is special order forms listing materials needed for A Beka, BJUP, Alpha Omega, Apologia, Castle Heights, and Christian Light science texts for each grade level. (Free for courses you are using, but $.50 for others.) They have even prepackaged Materials Kits for the Alpha Omega LIFEPACs, Bob Jones texts, Apologia, and Castle Heights, although these don’t include the most expensive items like microscopes and balances. These options will make it very easy for you to either pick and choose the resources you need from their lists or purchase the kit and then decide in which of the other items you wish to invest. The catalog includes just about anything you could want including curriculum, chemicals, lab equipment, activity books, science kits, resource and activity books, videos, dissection specimens, microscopes, telescopes, and creation science resources.

Carolina Biological Supply has a free K-6 Science Catalog as well as an almost two-inch-thick complete catalog that sells for $17.95 postage paid. The free catalog should have plenty of resources for those teaching the elementary grades. If you purchase the complete catalog, you receive a coupon worth $17.95 off your first order of $25 or more.

Delta sells inexpensive chemistry lab supplies such as plastic graduated cylinders and beakers, as well as equipment and learning aids for nature studies, physics, geology, astronomy, environmental studies, and more.

Tobin’s Lab puts out a great catalog especially for home schoolers. Structured to reflect the days of creation, the catalog includes everything for science except traditional textbooks. They do carry lots of topical science books (including some on creation science), videos, microscopes, equipment, kits, chemistry sets, posters, and dissection specimens. I think it would be exciting to use the Good Science Workshop video, which presents teaching strategies and experiments correlated with the days of creation, or Considering God’s Creation, then select resources from this catalog to augment studies for each day since they both follow the same structure and make the job easier for us. Contact Tobin’s Lab to get their free catalog.

A source for both usual and unusual science materials is American Science and Surplus. They usually have such things as lab materials and equipment, maps and charts, motors, and magnets plus odds and ends of school supplies at very low prices.

Try dabbling in different areas of science as suggested by the items in these companies’ catalogs.