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Top 10 GEMS® Kits
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Stories in Stone
Grades 4–8
Price: $475.00 per kit
Use this kit to
fascinate students about how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks
form. Working in small groups, students use a boxed set of 10
prenumbered rock and mineral samples to learn how rocks and minerals
differ and then classify the samples. "Mystery rocks" are included to
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Space Science Sequence for Grades 3–5
Price:
$489.00 per kit
Students
learn fundamental concepts in space science using the Sun-Earth-Moon
system as the focus. Through models, hands-on activities, and readings,
students explore topics such as planet size and distance, Earth's shape
and spin, gravity, the apparent movement of the sun and stars, moon
phases, and eclipses. Each of the 4 units in this sequence contains 4 to
9 60-minute class sessions. |
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Mystery Festival
Grades 2–8
Price: $275.00 per kit
This kit contains
2 mysteries, one for young students and the other for older students,
making it ideal for K–8 elementary schools since 2 or more grades can
share the same kit. Students become detectives as they learn to observe,
conduct crime lab tests, analyze results, and apply their knowledge to
solve the mystery. Crime lab tests include thread tests, powder tests,
DNA, chromatography, fingerprinting, and many more. |
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 Involving
Dissolving
Grades 1–3
Price: $195.00 per kit
Students learn
about the concepts of dissolving, evaporation, and crystallization by
using familiar substances to create homemade gelatin, colorful disks,
and crystals that emerge on black paper to make a starry night. |
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Earth, Moon, and Stars
Grades 5–8
Price: $275.00 per kit
The activities in
this kit help students answer questions about the earth, moon, and
stars—including understanding Earth's shape and phases of the moon. They
learn to observe, measure, record, and use models. They also sharpen
their analytical skills and invent their own models. |
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 Bubble
Festival
Grades K–6
Price: $520.00 per kit
This kit involves
students in 12 classroom tabletop activities that encourage independent
thinking and cooperative learning. The kit also provides classroom tips
on logistics, ways to explore mathematical and scientific content, and
writing and literature connections. |
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Chemical Reactions
Grades 6–8
Price: $159.00 per kit
An exciting
introduction to chemistry, this kit utilizes an ordinary Ziploc® bag as
a safe and spectacular laboratory. Students mix chemicals that bubble
and change color, then get hot and smell. Then they experiment to
determine what causes the heat in this chemical reaction. |
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Terrarium Habitats
Grades K–6
Price: $309.00 per kit
A terrarium is an
up-close, hands-on way to teach students about ecology, life cycles,
food webs, nutrient cycles, decomposition, recycling, adaptation, and
animal structures and behavior. Kit includes grass seed, Sphagnum
moss, and coupons to redeem for living materials. Kit contains coupon
for prepaid delivery of live materials; live materials can be delivered
with kit on request. |
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Oobleck: What Do Scientists Do?
Grades 4–8
Price: $96.00 per kit
What is Oobleck?
It is an amazing material that exhibits the properties of a solid and a
liquid. Oobleck helps to teach the scientific method as students
observe, hypothesize, and experiment to determine just what Oobleck is.
By practicing the scientific method, students get a better idea of what
scientists do. Cooperative learning is emphasized as students share
their ideas and work together during the course of their investigations. |
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On Sandy Shores
Grades 2–4
Price: $500.00 per kit
Introduce
students to seashore ecology with this stimulating kit. It includes
everything needed to demonstrate the intricate connections between
biology and ecology found at the seashore. The kit's 5 activities
encourage students to form a sense of stewardship for their world and
the living things that inhabit it. |
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