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How about those TOPS Science Kits? They seem like they would be good for setting up a tray for an older child, especially as they come with task cards so the children can conduct their own experiments, etc. I am seriously thinking about getting a few of these for my 11ds.
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Great suggestion!! I think they have these in the Sonlight catalog as well! Thanks for the reminder on these 
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montessori_lori wrote:
| Oooo, I love the last one! I have a prism; where do I find a laser pen? |
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You can get one here scitoys (along with a lot of other cool stuff)but they are also widely available at other stores. Just Google laser pen or laser pointer.
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montessori_lori wrote:
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Office supply stores have laser pens. Great for cats to chase, also.
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vmalott wrote:
How about those TOPS Science Kits? They seem like they would be good for setting up a tray for an older child, especially as they come with task cards so the children can conduct their own experiments, etc. I am seriously thinking about getting a few of these for my 11ds.
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Did you buy any? If so what did you think?
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Bumping up.
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Bumping this up again, in case there are any new ideas.
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Well, since I don't teach science and needed to get me out of the science teaching business, we have done almost all succesful science below high school in our house from some informal type things like science trays.
I had dh go with me through the homescience.com kits. There were many that were labeled 3rd - 12th grade. I decided that these would give me the most expandability for the money. Then dh and I flipped through a textbook (usually whatever our highschooler was studying) and bought the kits we thought would most benefit and the ones my husband identified as easier to buy than for him to set up by himself. Some things we have used that my childre enjoy - density kit, physics lab, electronics snap circuits, rock and mineral sample kit and some a light kit with prisms and mirrors. I'll have to go in the room and look but there were tons of things we could have ordered from homescience.
Some things my dh or someone else helped me put together: id kit (simple key guide with the tools needed for testing - think our first one had a nail, a penny, a piece of glass, and a white and black strike plate - oh and also an eyedropper and eyedropper bottle of vinegar. We got fishing tackle boxes for them to use for their own rock collections and a simple to use field guide. And eventually we did order some of the rock kits for them to use as models of comparison.
My dh is big into acoustics (that is his field) so we have a lot of things to actually look at sound waves so dh pulls that out periodically as well and lets them experiment with making different noises and seeing what the wave looks like. Anyways, one simple make yourself kit is a slinky - you can create different kinds of waves using this.
There are plenty of build your own type things everywhere - turn a potatoe into a clock kind of stuff and pneumatic pumps. If you have a budding scientist, I think I'd leave a collection of scrap parts around with simple books on the principals of things. Old wires, old motors, wood scraps, - my husband was a collector of all kinds of stuff like this growing up.
Oh, and while magnifying glasses are great, just be aware that it doesn't take long at all for kids to figure out how to start fires with them. They were using ours to start leaves on fire so they could hollow out the canoe they were making. At least the hollowed out boat of burning leaves was floating around in the swimming pool   when mom set more rules to dampen their fun.
Oh, another tray - a good book explaining lift, an aircraft specification book (there are tons of these on military aircraft of WWII) and a basic paper airplane book with paper and scissors. We have fleets of aircraft which are designed to imitate the specifications in paper of these. Some travel further and faster, others are slower but more stable, ..... I cannot begin to tell you what my boys have learned from making these. They even branched into making paper helicopters - just watch your straight pins in your sewing cabinet when that happens or you'll be finding straight pins everywhere.
We'll be needing to expand our options soon, so I'll be looking here for ideas.
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Topic: Science Trays for 6-12
