Science Experiment Kits - what a great teaching tool!

Think science needs to be boring? How wrong you are. Even if you have a very limited budget for homeschool supplies you can enliven your homeschool science course in a number or ways. Science experiment kits are available at all grade levels, at many different price ranges and usually target a specific discipline such as biology, chemistry and even more narrow subjects such as magnetism, weather, insects, etc.

How to incorporate science experiment kits into your science curriculum

This is relatively easy to do. Choose what science subject you want to teach. This could be a broad science subject such as general science, biology or earth science, or you might choose to cover smaller subspecialties such as volcanoes and earthquakes, the solar system, etcetera. Then choose your textbook, cd-rom course, online biology course or simply library books on the subject - whatever you choose to use to make up the "core" of your teaching. Then, simply choose a related experiment kit or kits!

Where to find good science experiment kits

Homeschool Science: Kits on birds, magnetism, astronomy, insects, light, microscopic observations and range from $25-$40.

The Young Scientists Club: This is a monthy subscription club. There are 36 different kits available and they are $11.99 each plus $4.95 shipping - very cool!

Home Training Tools: This company carries prepackaged science kits that go with popular curriculum publisher such as Bob Jones, Apologia, Switched on Schoolhouse, Alpha Omega and Abeka. They also carry a HUGE amount of scientific supplies - you can find just about everything here.

Delta Education: Click on the link for Science in a Nutshell Kits. These are really neat hands-on kits for grades 2-6. There are over 50 different kits to choose from and they are all $39.

 Looking at all these awesome science kits makes me want to start the school year - how about you? Happy teaching!