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#2000-2  Kit, Atmosphere in Crisis.
This kit presents information relating to the characteristics of the air, the atmosphere, and how these are affected by pollutants.  It demonstrates the principles of absorption and the effects of air pollution on such common things as plants and metals.  Air pollutants are created and treated, thus enabling the students to see and understand the causes and effects of air pollution and the necessity and means for control.   Classroom activities include:  temperature inversion, the creation of two air pollutants, treatments of air pollutants, and the effects of air pollution.  All apparatus, chemicals, ten 35mm slides, seven overhead transparency masters, and teacher's manual are supplied to perform various experiments.

#2000-2A Kit, Atmosphere in Crisis, refill

#2000-5  Kit, Consumer Chemistry.
This program emphasizes health and safety considerations.  Students will examine common products that have become controversial issues, such as soaps and detergents, hard water and water softening, bleaching and stain removal, chemicals in our foods, pesticides in fertilizers and common drugs and cosmetics.  In addition to a 50 frame filmstrip and 12 overhead transparency masters, you get all the apparatus and chemicals necessary to perform nine different classroom activities.  Study wash day chemistry; the science of fabric color; the kitchen sink; digesting; baking; stomach acid; photography; vitamin C analysis and food additives to retard spoilage.

#2000-5A Kit, Consumer Chemistry, refill
#2000-5B Kit, Consumer Chemistry Workbook (30/set)

#2000-7  Kit, Death of a River.
This kit offers a complete water pollution unit which covers clean water and the prevention and treatment of pollution.  A combination of 11-35mm slides, six reproducible transparency masters, instructor's manual and laboratory equipment leads students carefully through water quality experiments involving dissolved oxygen, the bacteria related to dissolve oxygen, water clarity, and the treatment of organic wastes.

#2000-7A Kit, Death of a River, refill

#2000-9  Kit, Environmental Pollution.
A classroom size kit for the investigation of health and economic consequences of environmental pollution.  The lecture materials contain discussions of chemical composition of fresh air and water, pollutants of the environment, consequences of environmental pollution and treatment and control of pollution.  Classroom activities are separated into two categories:  air and water pollution.  Fifteen activities are performed; five dealing with air pollution and ten dealing with water pollution.  The water pollution activities include:  Determination of dissolved oxygen, addition of oxygen by aeration and by photosynthesis, removal of oxygen by heating, by respiration and by chemical activity, relationship between bacteria and oxygen, sewage and plant nutrients, treatment of chemical wastes, mine acid pollutants and their effects on fish.  The air pollution activities include: temperature inversion, the creation of two air pollutants, the effect of air pollution on various materials, and treatments for air pollution.  Also includes 19 transparency masters, 47-35mm slides and manual.

#2000-9A Kit, Environmental Pollution, refill

#2000-10  Kit, Environmental Student Test Lab.
Ten different tests of the air and water around us can be performed with the Environmental Student Test Lab.  Your students will be interested to know that their experiments duplicate those actually carried out by state and federal agencies.  Five water tests look for dissolved oxygen, hardness, chloride, phosphate, and pH.  The kit also gives you four air tests for suspended particles, smoke density, concentration of chemicals, and carbon dioxide.  These test are easy to do and produce clear, visible results.  Many of the tests give or estimate quantitive results.  The kit includes 8 test chemicals, test equipment, two charts, and a reproducible laboratory manual.   This kit is an excellent introduction to air and water evaluation.

#2000-10A Kit, Environmental Student Test, Workbook
#2000-10B Kit, Environmental Student Test, refill
 

#2000-12  Kit, Food Chemistry.
The purpose of this kit is to examine in depth the chemical nature of many familiar food products.  Among the experiments that are in the 61-page teacher's manual and that can be performed with the kit are:  The presence of sugars, starches, fats and proteins; fruit discoloration; the chemical composition of milk; the presence of iodine in salt; calcium propionate in bread; and the qualitative test for vitamin C and sulfur dioxide in fruit.

#2000-12A Kit, Food Chemistry, refill
#2000-12B Kit, Food Chemistry, Workbook (30/set)

#2000-14  Kit, Kitchen Chemistry.
The purpose of this kit is to discuss and illustrate the properties of solutions and the fundamentals of organic chemistry as they relate to candy making.  Such terms as supersaturated, tetrahedrons, carbohydrates, crystallization, activation energy, and many others will be taught in an enjoyable, educational way.  The Kitchen Chemistry Kit includes seven 35mm slides, teacher's manual, chemicals and apparatus necessary to perform a series of nine experiments which are designed to further enhance the learning experience.

#2000-15 Kit, Light Pollution.
Illumination beyond the needs of sight produces light pollution.  Excess light can injure the eye.  This excellent 35mm slide presentation allows students to examine light and the anatomy of the eye; light pollution caused by glare, fluorescence, and reflection; and industrial research into light pollution.  Some of the topics illustrated and described include:  The anatomy of the eye, the nature of light and the effects of glare, infrared and ultraviolet radiation.  Of particular interest in this kit are the structures of the eye and the mechanisms of sight.  Each kit contains 18-35mm slides, a plastic mounted cross section of the eye, and an excellent teachers manual with test questions and suggested student projects.

#2000-19  Kit, Noise Pollution.
Students will use this kit to hear how it would sound to have different ranges of hearing loss, diagram and label ear anatomy, define and measure noise pollution.  Some of the optics illustrated and described in the kit include:  Anatomy of the ear, transmission of sound; measurement of noise; effect of noise on the individual and the community and methods of controlling noise pollution.  The kit includes 14-35mm slides, a special prepared audio cassette tape which allows students to experience a variety of simulated hearing losses and a detailed teacher's manual.

#2000-22  Kit, Pulmonary Module.
The kit, through models and 35mm slides, clearly explains the mechanical operation and the function of the lungs.  This sets the stage for describing the effects of smoking-specifically with respect to chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer and coronary artery disease.  Laboratory demonstrations enforce some of the mechanical concepts introduced in the teacher's manual giving the student a better appreciation of the consequences of smoking.  The set includes excellent teacher's manual, 11-35mm slides, a cross section of a lung, microscope slides, a smoking apparatus and apparatus for demonstrating lung inflation.

#2000-22A Kit, Pulmonary Module, Refill and Manual

#2000-23  Kit, Solid Waste and Recycling.
This self-contained kit uses a combination of 20-35mm slides, 10 reproducible transparency masters, reference material, and laboratory equipment to give students an understanding of solid waste causes, sources and management, plus case studies on solid waste pollution.  The laboratory manual and equipment allow students to do tests and experiments involving CO2 cycle in nature, composting, fuel for wastes and paper recycling.  This kit also contains seven testing chemicals and all of the necessary equipment for the tests.

#2000-23A Kit, Solid Waste and Recycling, refill

#2000-24  Kit, The Water Test.
The ideal field kit for performing four important experiments on water pollution.  Test water samples for dissolved oxygen content, chlorides, phosphates and water hardness.  All tests are easy to perform and provide professional results.   All the apparatus and materials necessary for performing each test several times are provided.

#2000-24A The Water Test Kit, refill.

#2000-28 How Clean Is The Air?
Learn what air pollution is and how weather and geography affect it.  Conduct experiments to test the air that you breathe for pollutants.  This kit comes complete with instruction manual, the chemicals and apparatus needed to conduct several tests.

#2000-29 How Clean Is The Water?
Conduct experiments on the chemicals and organisms that pollute our water and how it can be purified.  With this kit you will be able to test the level of bacteria in water, the chloride content, the pH level and the rate particles settle in water.

#2000-30  Student Slidemaking Kit.
This kit allows students to prepare their own microscope slides.  The kit contains 12-glass microscope slides, 100 18mm x 18mm coverslips, mounting medium and dropper.

#2000-31  Slidemaking Kit.
This kit provides everything you need to prepare your own slides.  Included are:  72-glass microscope slides, 100 glass coverslips, a set of specimens, self adhesive labels, single edge razor blades, lens paper, 2 medicine droppers, mounting medium and isopropyl alcohol.  Instructions are also provided.

#2000-32 Advanced Slidemaking Kit
Provides everything needed to propare and stain slides. This advanced slide making kit includes the following items:  specimens (fabric, threads, dust, cork, foam, salt), two staining specimens (a corn section and planaria) and preserved insects (honey bee and cricket), acetone (28ml), xylene (112ml), 2 stains: fast green and borax carmine (28ml), differentiator (28ml), isopropyl alcohol (448ml), mounting medium (28ml), 72 microscope slides, 100 cover slips, 100 labels (1.6 x 1.6cm), a lens paper book, two medicine droppers, two single-edge razor blades, a magnifier, a concave microscope slide, three vials for collecting specimens, fine forceps, a spot plate, a clear plastic ruler, one pair of gloves (size 8), two prepared slides, an instruction booklet entitled  "Adventures With A Microscope".

#2000-33  Complete Dissecting Kit - 15 pieces.
This kit includes a manual entitled ""How to Dissect"", a set of specimens, grasshopper, crayfish, clam frog, perch, starfish and worm, an aluminum dissecting pan with wax and a complete dissecting set which includes medicine dropper, forceps, scalpel, scissors, 2 teasing needles, 6"" ruler and case.

#2000-34  Set of Specimens Only.
The specimens included are one each of the following: grasshopper, crayfish, clam, frog, perch, starfish and a worm. Pack in Boi-Neat, as same alternative to formaldehyde.

#2000-35  Advanced Dissecting Kit -32 pieces. 
A complete kti which includes two manuals, ""How to Dissect"", and  ""A Lab Manual for Microbiology.""  Also provided are an apron, goggles, lens paper, single edge razor blades, wood applicators, one dozen double cavity microscope slides, mounting medium, staining jar, gloves, 2-loop magnifier, set of specimens, Barnes bottle and dropper, 72-glass plain microscope slides, 100 coverslips, dissecting pan with wax and an advanced dissecting set.

#2000-36  Glassware Kit - 36 pieces.
A convenient selection of borosilicate laboratory glassware.  Included are the following:  Griffin beakers, one 50ml, two 250ml and one 600ml, Erlenmeyer flasks; one 50ml, two 250ml and one 500ml, six medicine droppers, six stir rods 6"", one cylinder 10ml, one cylinder 100ml, one serological pipet, twelve test tubes 16x150mm and one short stem funnel 75mm x 75mm.

#2000-37  Advanced Glassware Kit - 67 pieces.
This kit contains all of the items listed in our #2000-36 Glassware kit plus the following:  a 25ml burette with stopcock, 6"" dropping pipet, six Barnes bottles with droppers, two 8 oz. bottles, two 60ml dropping bottles with ground glass pipettes, one drying tube 100mm, one condenser 300mm, one flask boiling 100ml, one mortar and pestle 60ml, one volumetric pipet 5ml, one thistle tube 6 x300mm, one 4"" watch glass, flint glass tubing 12"" long sizes 5mm, 6mm and 7mm, twelve pieces each, one filtering flask 125ml, one flask volumetric 250ml, one flask boiling 100ml, one funnel short stem 75mm x 75mm.

#2000-38 Labware Kit - 33 pieces.
Contains all the basic professional borosilicate labware and equipment for conducting science experiments.  The kit contains the text, "700 Science Experiments for Everyone" (250 pages) as a source of safe experiments.  Other components include:  lab apron, three beakers, porcelain evaporating dish, Erlenmeyer flask, plastic funnel, safety goggles, graduated cylinders, filtering paper, dropping pipet, spatula, sponge, three rubber stoppers, six test tubes, test tube rack, test tube brush, test tube holder, thistle tube, tongs, pipestem triangle, tripod, and wire gauze square.

#2000-39  Advanced Labware Kit - 61 pieces.
This kit contains all the basic materials as our borosilicate Labware Kit (#2000-38).  In addition, it also includes: a book titled ""Chemistry the Easy Way"", 2000 gram spring balance, battery jar, two wide mouth 8 oz bottles, burette clamp, clamp holder, petri dish, boiling flask, forceps, funnel, thistle tube, stirring rod, 1 lb glass tubing assortment, medicine dropper, prism, 1 lb rubber stoppers, wood splints, test paper, thermometer, rubber tubing, ringstand, wash bottle, shutoff clamp, graduated cylinder, scoop and spot plates.

#2000-40 Plasticware Kit - 17 pieces.
Economics of longer equipment life and lower replacement costs.  Included are two graduated cylinders 10ml, 100ml, one dropping bottle, two beakers 100ml, 250ml, four 2 oz. specimen bottles, one standard funnel, six plastic droppers, and 10 feet of pvc tubing.

#2000-45  Kit, Chem-Start.
If you are just putting your chemistry lab together, then we have done all the work for you.  We have included the most common equipment from test tubes to stir sticks.  Kit includes: (8) 18 x 150mm test tubes, (1) wood test tube rack, (8) #0 stoppers, (8) #0 one hole stoppers, (3) 6"" glass stir rods, (1) stainless steel spatula, (2) glass medicine droppers, (50) wood splints, (1) glass petri dish, (1) test tube clamp, (1) thermometer, (2) 2x2 glass bends, (1) 25ml glass cylinder, (1) test tube brush, (36"") rubber tubing.

#2000-46  Kit, Lab-Tech.
Now that you have the glassware for you chemistry lab, it is time to add the hardware.  Kit includes:  (1) 4""x6"" support stand with 18"" rod, (1) 3"" support ring and clamp, (1) 4"" wire gauze, (1) 4"" burner tripod, (1) beaker tong,  (1) burette clamp, (1) thermometer clamp, (1) right angle clamp, (1) pinch clamp, (1) extension clamp, (1) test tube clamp.

#2000-47  Kit, Micro-Chem.
This is the perfect introductory chemistry kit for simple experiments.  Kit includes:  (1) pair of safety goggles, (1) glass medicine dropper, (1) test tube clamp, (3) 13 x 100mm test tubes, (3) #000 solid stoppers, (1) 10ml glass cylinder, (1) 50ml Erlenmeyer flask, (1) 100ml beaker, (1) 50ml boiling flask, (1) 6"" glass stir rod, (1) #2 solid stopper, (1) #2 one hole stopper (1) #4 solid stopper, (1) #4 one hole stopper.

#2000-48 Kit, Exploralab.
This chemistry laboratory kit just about has it all.  For those who are serious about putting together a complete lab.  Kit includes: (1) 500ml glass boiling flask, (1) 500ml glass erlenmeyer flask, (1) 250ml flat bottom boiling flask, (1) 400ml beaker, (1) 150ml beaker, (1) pair saftey goggles, (1) wood test tube rack, (1) burette clamp, (1)4"x6" support stand with 18" rod, (6) 18x150m test tubes, (1) 4" watch glass, (2) 4" wire gauze, (2) glass medicine droppers, (4) plastic graduated cups, (1) test tube clamp, (3) 6" glass stir rods, (1) stainless steel spatula, (1) 50ml glass cylinder, (50) wood splints, (6) #0 solid stoppers, (3) #0 one hole stoppers, (2) #0 two hole stoppers, (2) #6 solid stoppers, (2) #6 one hole stoppers, (2) #6 two hole stoppers, (1) 4" support ring and clamp, (1) rubberized coth apron, (4) pair of latex gloves.

#2000-49  Kit, Biolab.
This dissecting kit comes complete with tray, specimens, and instruments.  Specimens are stored in Bio-Neat, a safer alternative to formaldehyde.  Kit includes one each: grasshopper, crayfish, clam, frog, perch, starfish, worm, 6"" plastic ruler, medicine dropper, forceps, straight teasing needle, bent teasing needle, scalpel, scissors, plastic case, and glass dissecting board with neoprene pad.

#3000-33 Wide Range pH Indicator Kit, Range: 1-14.
For reading ph from 1 to 14.  Contains 60ml of wide range pH indicator solution, a styrene 12-well spot plate, medicine dropper, pH color comparison card and instructions.

Molecular Model Sets
High quality molecular model kits that will last a lifetime.  Made from a super strong, unbreakable pre-colored plastic, allowing students to construct simple inorganic compounds.  The connecting bonding plugs fit securely yet are flexible enough for double bonding applications.  The balls are precision drilled for correct bond angles.
#1863 Deluxe Set      (370 balls plus lugs)
#1864 Basic Set         (74 balls plus lugs)

Science Wiz Kits
Highly visual, step-by-step instructions and age appropriate materials make science content accessible to readers and non-readers alike.  Each set includes a book and all the lab materials necessary to create either an individualized enrichment station or a complete set of classroom demonstrations.  Stunning posters give eye-catching reinforcement to each unit.  One kit per subject:
#7800   Electricity              #7804   Chemistry
#7801   Magnetism            #7802   Light
#7806   Newton's Laws     #7805   Energy
#7901   Inventions             #7808   DNA
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