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2nd Edition

ESTEC

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER

Sharon Bassage

131 Drumlin Court Newark, NY 14513

Phone: (315) 332-7267 Fax: (315) 331-2016

Sbassage@wflboces.org

WAYNE-FINGER LAKES BOCES

2006-2007

SCIENCE KIT LIST

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ESTEC, CIMS, GROWING HEALTHY And SCIENCE 21 SCIENCE KITS SCHEDULING CALENDAR 2006-2007

SEPTEMBER 2006

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1 | 11 12 13 14 15 2 | 18 19 20 21 22

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OCTOBER 2006

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NOVEMBER 2006

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DECEMBER 2006

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JANUARY 2007

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FEBRUARY 2007

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MARCH 2007

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APRIL 2007

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MAY 2007

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JUNE 2007

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A) Enter BEGIN date (first day of week, Monday) and RETURN date (last day of week, Friday) on the teacher request form for kits in 2006-2007. (If Monday or Friday is a holiday,

please use Tuesday or Thursday). The computer will book the kit for the given number of weeks the kit is allowed.

B) Delivery is scheduled for the week BEFORE the begin date. C) Please note the due date when you receive your kit. If you

need to extend the kit, please call me at least 1 week prior to the due date.

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Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES Instructional Materials Processing Center Teacher Request Form for 2006 - 2007 District / Building: __________________________ __________________________________________

Teacher (last, first): _______________________ _____________________ Grade Level: __________

Authorized Signature: _______________________________________________________________

2005 - 2006 Bookings Dates for 2006 - 2007 Kit Number Kit Title Begin Return Begin Return _____________________________________________________ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Enter begin date (first day of the week - Monday) and return date (last day of the week - Friday) from the enclosed calendar for those items requested in 2006 - 2007. List additional kits requested including begin and return dates.

Return through your superintendent by: FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2006. NOTE: If this list is to be reassigned to a different teacher, enter the new teacher name. Use blank form for additional teachers.

Elementary Science Training and Education Center (ESTEC)

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The Elementary Science Training & Education Center (ESTEC) provides materials and training that

enable the successful implementation of a comprehensive, quality, classroom science program at the elementary level. The basis of this service is individual science kits, the cost of which includes not only the student materials, but also unlimited teacher training, continuous material revision, teacher manual updates, consultant resources for teachers and administrators and teacher-to-teacher networking. New grade level performance assessment activities for elementary science and materials services for middle level science have been added to this service.

Call: Sharon Bassage, Coordinator of Science Programs, 315-332-7267 for more details.

***Important Notice*** Please confirm with your teachers the time and duration they want the kits. You will be charged additional fees if the kits are kept longer then their allotted time (minor extensions excluded). Reservations for the kits are on a first come, first serve basis. If your kit orders are late, we may have to adjust the time in which you receive the kit to accommodate all the school districts. Please check your confirmation letters to determine time of delivery. Additionally, please confirm the teachers and grade levels listed on your order forms. If a teacher no longer works in the district, or if a class has been dropped from a grade level, let us know. If you do not update your lists, once the budget has been set for the year, your district will be charged for the kits ordered. Please keep us updated. Kit Reservations:

A business administrator must sign all teacher request forms. This procedure insures that the school has confirmed all kit orders. Science kits will automatically be booked for the recommended number of weeks. If a kit is desired for a longer period of time, it must be signed out twice on the order form or an additional signed note is required, on letterhead, indicating the duration of time and the appropriate costs. (Call for further information, minor extensions excluded.)

Science kits can be booked anytime during the school year. You may have to be flexible with the time

you want the kit, but we will do everything we can to get you the science title when you want it.

Kit descriptions are found on the following pages.

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ESTEC KITS

Level I: K-2 Level II: 3-4 Level III: 5-6 Level IV: 6-8

ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS: BODY COVERINGS – ES191 Level: II (3-4) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Observing, collecting data, processing information Price: $115

This kit contains activities that will show students different animal body coverings and how animals use them to survive. The students will participate in activities that show how body coverings help regulate body temperature, insulate the animal, repel water, help the animal fly, breathe, be protected, and camouflaged. ANIMAL SURVIVAL – ES194 Level: I (K-2) Length of Time: 5 weeks Skills: Reading, observing, asking questions, sorting Price: $60 This is a wonderful kit that helps students understand how animals with blubber, fur, feathers, or fins survive. In addition there is a great activity to show students adaptations of frogs that help them survive! There are 6 books or reading passages that compliment your ELA program, and graphic organizers, and sorting charts for great skill building! You’ll love this kit! BALLOONS AND GASES - ES100 Level: III (5-7) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Observing, experimenting Price: $200 This re-formatted extension of the original ESS unit contains excellent techniques for testing and identifying common gases. Very much like the popular unit called Powders & Crystals, it allows students to experiment with a variety of "Mystery Gases" that are made from several different chemical reactions. Comes with a high quality manual. BEGINNINGS - ES101 Level: I (K) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks Skills: Observing Price: $210 Students observe and compare a variety of common colors, shapes, textures, odors, sounds, sizes, quantities, relative positions and living organisms. This is a great kit to start students with the basics of science. BONES - ES102 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $210 Students compare relative bone structure from different animals and construct skeletons by comparing similar bones. They discuss structure and function of different bones and compare skeletal systems. BUOYANCY - ES105 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 3 to 5 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $75 Students will have an opportunity to plan and construct their own floating containers. They’ll experiment with

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a variety of materials and designs and investigate the variables that effect the flotation of boats they construct. BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS - ES106 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 12 weeks Skills: Observing, measuring Price: $107 Students observe the biological process of metamorphosis and learn to care for and feed butterflies. This is a great kit for life cycle studies and has new supplies. Available for Spring and September. CLASSIFYING - ES108 Level: I (1) Length of Time: 10 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, grouping, sorting Price: $130 Students use a variety of objects to group, sort and serial order according to shape, color and size. Attribute games and problems are added to the old "Classifications" kit. CLASSROOM PLANTS - ES109 Level: I (K) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks Skills: Observing comparing Price: $75 Students study the parts of plants and the function of major plant parts. They also compare similar plant parts from different kinds of plants. COLORED SOLUTIONS - ES110 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks Skills: Observing, organizing data, predicting Price: $150 Students study the behavior of colored liquids, which have different densities. They learn to identify more and less dense liquids according to their ability to form layers. In addition, they experiment with colored liquids and produce a coding system for replicating a unique color. COMPOSTING & DECOMPOSITION - ES178 Level: II (1-3) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks Skills: Observing, organizing data, predicting Price: $155 This high interest unit, affectionately called "Worms and Garbage" fits into "Environmental Science" titles at the primary grades. It involves students in the development of a composting bin, and using small red worms as the decomposing agent. Classroom food scraps are composted, producing an excellent quality of fertile compost over several weeks. The decomposition part of this unit fits nicely into the theme of change that relates the composting activities to other means of decomposition. CONTROLLED STUDIES - ES120 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 6 weeks Skills: Identifying variables and controls Price: $150 Students learn to identify manipulated and dependent variables and to design controlled studies through a variety of activities having many different conditions to be controlled. Materials from PENDULUMS provide many opportunities to design controlled studies.

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CRAYFISH - ES111 Level: II (4-5) Length of Time: 7 to 14 weeks

Skills: Observing, measuring, predicting Price: $75 Students observe the physical characteristics of crayfish and watch their behaviors related to food supply, reaction to light and darkness, and overcrowding. This kit is great for studying an animal and its habitat. Many of the living environment standards can be covered with this kit! It is recommended that this kit be ordered in September or after April 15th due to the availability of crayfish. CSI BOCES – ES202 Level: III (5-8) Length of Time: 3 weeks Skills: Observing, Recording data, Analyzing Price: $115 Students will have a great time trying to figure out “Who don-nit it?” There are 6 stations that student rotate through to solve the mystery. The stations include hair and fiber analysis, tire tracks, finger printing, blood typing, and chemical analysis. All the supplies are included in the kit including the directions for each station. DESIGN A CONSTELLATION - ES190

Level: I (1) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $100 This MST kit introduces four key constellations: Big Dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia, and Draco and integrates Language Arts. After participating in a variety of star activities, students will design and create their own original constellation. Using “fun” materials such as Lite Brite, star cookie cutters, clay, marshmallows, stickers, geoboards and glitter. Once the constellation is completed, students will write a star story to go along with their newly "discovered" constellation. EGGS AND TADPOLES - ES112 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $60

The life cycle of either frogs or toads is studied starting with the egg phase and working through the development of a full size adult providing ample opportunity to observe conditions necessary for healthy development of a young organism. The availability of eggs is dependent on the weather, so schedule this kit for use after April 1St.

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM - ES113 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, measuring Price: $215 Electricity and magnetism together! Learn the basic aspects of parallel and series circuits, opened and closed circuits, and what types of materials are better conductors of electricity vs. magnetism. Students will experience the attraction and repelling of magnetic force through solids, liquids, and gases and over a distance. ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS (SUPPLEMENTAL) - ES181 Level: II (3-4) Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks

Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $100

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This kit will allow students to carry out special projects by providing additional materials to those already supplied in the main “Electrical Circuits” Kit. The materials allow students to produce "Question and Answer Boards". Included are thirty batteries, thirty battery holders, wires, two hundred forty brass fasteners, thirty bulbs, and thirty bulb holders. Boards are not supplied. (Heavy cardboard, scrap wood, or Masonite are commonly used.) ELECTROMAGNETISM - ES114 Level: III (6) Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks Skills: Data collecting, experimenting Price: $275 Students study the relationship between electric currents and magnetic fields. They apply these understandings to the construction of a variety of simple motors and other devices which use electromagnets to produce motion. Formal experiments are included which help students understand the relationship between different variables and the strength of the simple electromagnet.

ELEMENTARY EARTH SCIENCE – ES198 Level: III – IV Length of Time: 6-8 weeks Skills: Reading Comprehension, gathering Price: $170 Data, charting, observing This kit is based on the elementary core content guide, physical setting. This kit contains information on the water cycle, erosion, and natural events such as volcanoes and earthquakes. Included with the kit is a student manual, lab manual, and teacher’s manual with content and answer keys. ELEMENTARY SIMPLE MACHINES – ES197 Level: II (2-3) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks Skills: Observing, measuring, interpreting data Price: $170 This often requested unit fits well into the Elementary Core Guide. Students will come to understand such principles as leverage, force, and motion after using pulleys, fulcrums, and wedges to make work easier! The kit includes a student workbook and a lab book. There is content written into the manuals and several books for students and teachers to reference. ELEMENTARY SOLAR SYSTEM – ES196 Level: II (3-4) Length of Time: 6-8 weeks Skills: Measuring, observing Price: $115 This kit is based on the elementary MST standards. Students will be introduced to the solar system, planets, sun, moon, comets, asteroids, and other basic material about our solar system. There is a student journal that students write about the day and night, the way the earth rotates and more. ENERGY ANTICS – ES199 Level II (3-4) Length of Time: 8-10 weeks Skills: Observing, collecting data Price: $175 This kit covers the basics of energy, what it is, where it comes from, how it can be transferred and materials that transfer energy better than others do. Students will learn the basics of heat, electrical, sound, chemical, mechanical, and light energy as per the standards. There are cool gadgets and materials for students to learn from.

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ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS - ES115 Level: III (6) Length of Time:10 to 15 weeks Skills: Measuring, data recording Price: $100 Students design and use a variety of simple weather instruments and keep long term records of environmental changes that occur around the school building. EXPERIMENTING - ES160 Level: III (6) Length of Time: 6 weeks

Skills: Conducting experiments Price: $175 Students actually design and carry out simple experiments. Materials from “HEATING AND COOLING” and “ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS” provide opportunities for experimentation and for developing the skill in reading a variety of scientific instruments. In order to be well developed by the end of the year, these skills should be taught during the fall and refined as they are used in other life and physical science units. FROM SEED TO PLANT - ES117 Level: I (1) Length of Time: 10 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, measuring Price: $80

Students study the germination and growth of plants and compare major plant parts from different types of growing plants in this spring unit. Complete plant life cycles should be observed. GATHERING DATA - ES163 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 6 weeks

Skills: Gathering data Price: $115 This kit helps develop the skill of gathering and organizing data by using activities and resources, which provide easy access to data. By charting and graphing everyday data , students improve their ability to make reasonable predictions. GRADE 4 PRACTICE ASSESSMENT - ES204 Price: $65.00 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 3 weeks Skills: Problem solving, measuring, observing, gathering data, describing, asking questions, concluding This new kit helps students prepare for the 4th grade science test given by the state. It has 5 stations including measuring, sorting, ball and ramp, electrical circuits, and food chains. In addition, the kit has a written test with multiple choice, short answer, and constructed response questions. This is a great kit to get the “pre-test jitters” out of the students and assess what they may need help on. Also good for testing out of AIS. GRADE 3 PRACTICE ASSESSMENT – ES 203 Price: $65.00 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 3 weeks Skills: Problem solving, measuring, observing, gathering data, describing, asking questions, concluding This is similar to Grade 4 in that it has 5 stations including measurement, life cycles, habitats, ball and ramp, and buoyancy. This is a great kit to determine where students are at with their scientific skills and understandings. There is also a written test, which includes multiple choice, short answer, and extended response.

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HEALTHY FOOD/HEALTHY BODY - ES192 Level: I (1-2) Length of Time: 6 weeks

Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $ 95 This MST kit is designed to introduce the food pyramid and simple digestive system. Activities include making healthy food choices and fun snacks such as Ants on a Log and Yogurt Parfaits. Students will design a simple representation of the basic parts of the digestive system and be involved in entertaining digestion experiments, such as Egg-Spearmint and Carrot Chew. ICE CUBES - ES121 Level: I (2) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, data collecting Price: $120 Students study properties of water, ice and other common liquids. This kit involves an informal study of the way heat is transferred from one object to another. Simple experiments are designed to compare heat transfer.

ICE SMART - ES189 Level: III (4-5) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks

Skills: Observing, data collecting, measuring Price: $125 Students are faced with the challenge of designing, constructing and testing small ice boxes. Students are expected to combine their knowledge of math, science and technology in order to solve a real-life situation. To accomplish this task, they will explore the concepts of heat flow, volume, surface area, and technical design through various experiments. Using their new knowledge, they can construct the ice boxes to hold a container of ice for four hours. INCUBATOR (FROM EGG TO CHICK) - ES122 Level: I (2) Length of Time: 6 weeks Skills: Observing, gathering data Price: $75 Students watch the development and hatching of chicken eggs. Teacher information from the Cooperative Extension services is included, along with one incubator. A dozen fertile eggs are provided. April availability. FERTILE EGGS ONLY – ES122A Price: 1 dozen $11.00 Order as many dozen as you like. Our vendor is new and as a general rule, we have good luck. Remember that we get many orders for the same week. You may have to give us (or the hens) some time for delivery! AUTOMATIC EGG TURNER – ES122B – fits the incubator (ES122) Price: $46 INTERACTION AND SYSTEMS - ES123 Level: I (2) 106 Length of Time: 12 to 16 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, measuring Price: $200

A variety of relationships are explored that deal with the way one object interacts with another in both natural and man-made situations.

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INTERMEDIATE EARTH SCIENCE – ES 193 Level: III – IV (5-8) Length of Time: 12-14 weeks Skills: Reading Comprehension, gathering Price: $230 Data, charting, observing This kit is based on the Intermediate Core Content Guide, Physical setting. This kit contains information on the inside of the Earth, the rock cycle, hydrosphere, atmosphere, erosion, Pangaea, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Included with the kit is a student manual, lab manual, and teacher’s manual with content and answer keys. INTERMEDIATE SOLAR SYSTEM – ES195 Level: III –IV (5-8) Length of Time: 12-14 wks Skills: observing, charting, Price: $230 The information for this kit comes directly from the Intermediate Core content Guide. Student will be introduced to the parts of the solar system, universe, sun, gravity, inertia, orbits, planets, day and night, moon phases, eclipses, meteors, and more. The teacher’s manuals includes activities and content or background information. INVESTIGATING GROUND WATER: THE FRUITVALE STORY (SEPUP KIT) - ES183 Level: IV (6-8) Length of Time: 6-8 weeks Skills: Observing, gathering data, interpreting evidence Price: $146

Students explore the factors affecting movement of ground water: porosity, permeability, aquifers and aquitard in this unit, which integrates Social Studies. They face a societal dilemma in the make believe town of Fruitvale and have to try to solve the question of what is causing the contamination of the Fruitvale water supply. Mapping, well testing plans, discussing the issues at a "town meeting" where they take stands on the issues, are all part of this excellent unit (From Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley.) LOOKING AT LIQUIDS - ES126 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 6 to 10 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, Price: $150

experimenting, making hypotheses Students compare physical properties of a variety of common household liquids by comparing how they appear in droplet form, how they slide on different types of surfaces, and how the surface tension compares form one liquid to another. MAGNETS – ES200 Level: I (2) Length of Time: 6-8 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, Price: $140

measuring, collecting data This kit is written for primary (grades 1-2) but could be used for intermediate (grades 3-4). The kit focuses on what a magnet is, pushes and pulls, what magnets attract to and repel, that magnets work through different substances, and have different strengths. Some supplies are for both grade levels, and some supplies are specific for one of the levels. This is a fun unit with opportunities to explore!

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MEASURING - ES128 Level: I (2) Length of Time: 10 to 20 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, Price: $155

measuring, collecting data Students develop the concept of a unit length, unit area and unit volume by matching non-standard units with a variety of objects found in the classroom. They learn to select appropriate standard units to use when measuring small objects or when measuring very large objects such as the length of the corridor. The unit leads to considerable problem solving and hypothesizing. MEET THE CREATURES - ES131 Level: III (6) Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks Skills: Observing, data collecting, measuring, predicting Price: $95

Students explore both the physical characteristics of mealworms and mealworm behavior by finding which environmental conditions mealworms prefer most. Occasionally mealworms will go through metamorphosis and turn into an adult, which is entirely different in appearance from the mealworm itself. OBSERVING - ES161 Level: I (K) Length of Time: 6 weeks Skills: Observing Price: $100 This kit helps develop the skill of observing as students work with many simple materials, including pinwheels, primary balances, pattern blocks, warm and cold water, and shadows. OPTICS - ES135 Level: III (6) Length of Time: 6 to 10 weeks

Skills: Observing, measuring, experimenting Price: $150

The behavior of light is explored using a unique light box and a variety of colored filters. Light refraction, light reflection and the mixing of colored lights provide interesting problems and activities. ORGANISMS – ES136 Level: I (2) Length of Time: 15 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $175 Students watch seeds grow into young plants, and they observe a variety of common aquarium animals such as guppies, snails and daphnia. They also observe the development of simple aquarium plants. OWL PELLETS - ES129 Owl Pellets only (25) Price: $85 PENDULUMS - ES138 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 6 to 8 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, experimenting Price: $139 Pendulums provide many variables for students to manipulate. Students design experiments to determine the effect of each variable. Unique problem solving opportunities arise when using pendulums.

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PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES - ES139 Level: I (2) Length of Time: 10 to 15 weeks Skills: Observing, recording data, comparing Price: $160 Students observe changes in simple plants as they grow from seed to plant, and they observe the changes in the life cycles of mealworms. PLANT RESPONSES - ES140 Level: III (6) Length of Time: 10 to 15 weeks Skills: Observing, experimenting Price: $140 Students observe the behavior of plants under a variety of environmental conditions such as amount of light, type of soil, color of light, and other conditions, which produce unusual responses in growing plants. The emphasis is on designing controlled studies and conducting experiments. POND LIFE - ES141 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 10 to 15 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing and collecting data Price: $95 Students observe common pond organisms, both plant and animal, and compare some of their common characteristics and differences. This unit requires collecting pond samples, and the development of a classroom aquarium utilizing commonly available pond life. POWDERS AND CRYSTALS - ES142 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 8 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, Price: $200

collecting and organizing data, inferring Students compare the physical and chemical properties of a variety of common household powders and learn to organize data so that it can be used to help them identify "mystery mixtures". They also learn beginning techniques and tests necessary for identifying chemical properties, which are not obvious to the naked eye. PREDICTING - ES164 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 6 weeks Skills: Organizing data, predictions Price: $122

This kit helps develop the skill of making reasonable predictions based on data which has been gathered and organized into charts and graphs. This skill fits the elementary skills sequence which should be well-developed by the end of grade four. (Materials from “PEAS AND PARTICLES” also provide some of the opportunities for making predictions and estimations.) PROPERTIES - ES143 Level: I (1) Length of Time: 10 to 15 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $185 Students use all of their senses except taste to describe properties of a variety of common objects. They also compare similarities and differences between these objects and group and sort objects in a variety of ways based on their physical properties.

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PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT - ES169 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks

Skills: Observing, interpreting data Price: $187 Pollution, acid rain, electromagnetic fields, and many other conditions affect our environment and are caused by human activity. Ways to reduce or prevent pollution are explored, with an effort to make students aware of the their roles in helping to preserve a more and more fragile environment. RECYCLING IN NATURE - ES167 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Observing, interpreting data Price: $129

Nature recycles its materials continuously, but people tend to discard other materials in such numbers that natural conditions are starting to suffer. This unit allows the study of natural and human recycling processes, including the water cycle, the "garbage" cycle, and others. It attempts to make students aware of the need to recycle while considering possible ways the classroom and school building could recycle some materials. ROCKET ENGINES (15 packages of 3 [45]) - ES145A For Rocketry I, Rocketry II Price: $95 This supply of C6-5 engines will allow your students additional rocket launches. The C6-5 engine is more powerful than the engines that come in your full Rocketry kits. ROCKETRY - ES144 Level: III (6) Length of Time: 8 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, manipulating, measuring, data collecting Price: $250 Students construct simple rockets and test the flight of their rockets under a variety of conditions such as wind speed, angle of projection, design, etc. This unit involves methods of triangulation for determining the height and speed of model rocket flight. Included are 25 rockets. ROCKETRY II - ES162 Price: $280 Identical to Rocketry except that nine each of three different types of rockets are provided. Rockets included 9 Bullpup, 9 Athena and 9 Alpha. ROCKETS - ES145 Price: $265 25 Alpha rockets and A8-3 engines only. ROCKS AND MINERALS - ES146 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 8 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, collecting and Price: $170

organizing data, inferring Students observe physical and chemical properties of variety of rocks and minerals. They use simple chemical tests which indicate properties not easily identified with the naked eye. Organizing information into chart form helps students identify unique properties which each of the rocks and minerals possess.

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SENSES – ES201 Level: I (K-1) Length of Time: 6-8 weeks Skills: observing, sorting, comparing Price: $140 The Senses kits will introduce students to their 5 senses and create an understanding of what they do. This kit has fun activities that will engage the students in the learning process and cover several of the learning standards. Each of the 5 senses are explored with very creative activities for each. SIMPLE MACHINES - ES179 Level: III (4-6) Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks

Skills: Observing, measuring, interpreting data Price: $155

This often requested unit fits well into the Elementary Science Syllabus for Level III. Students will come to understand such principles as leverage, mechanical advantage, force, energy, resistance, gravity and motion after using pulleys, fulcrums, wheel and axles and wedges to make work easier! Many hands-on activities are used to convert simple experiences into basic mathematics concept related to force and effort. Local teachers using their own experiences, as well as resources from the other New Western New York Science Centers produced the unit. SKYWATCHING - ES148 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 15 to 30 weeks

Skills: Observing, measuring, collecting and processing data Price: $50 Students observe changes both in the daytime and nighttime sky, stars and constellations while developing a general concept of the apparent motions of objects in the sky relative to their position on earth. SMALL THINGS - ES150 Level: III (5) Length of Time: 8 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, measuring Price: $171 In this unit, students learn to use simple hand lenses and microscopes to observe objects which cannot be seen with the unaided eye. It helps them explore living pond life, including small organisms, and requires the development of some skill at operating a simple microscope. STAR LAB – ES166A Length of Time: 1 week Level: I, II, III & Jr. High Price: $220.00 per week A completely portable planetarium, this kit includes an inflatable dome, projector, large fan, and resource materials for teaching about constellations, Native American Mythology, Greek Mythology, motions in the sky, the sun and moon, our seasons, and more. For Earth Science teachers a “special sky" allows for the study of the Celestial Sphere Coordinates, navigation, and the Earth's precession. (Our sky can be viewed from the equator to the North Pole.) STARLAB will be booked only for schools which have a trained teacher-operator. Training sessions can be arranged twice each school year, and during the summer.

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STARLAB –ES166B Length of Time: 1 day Price: $220.00 per day The starlab will come to your school with an instructor! We will supply the instructor to give a maximum of 5 lessons throughout the day. A teacher must accompany the instructor and students in the dome. We will deliver, setup, instruct, then pack up the dome and return home for the day. If you have special curriculum interests, you must contact us 2 weeks prior with this information. Most lessons will be basic information and orientations. STARLAB – ES166C Celestial Cylinder STARLAB – ES166I Indian Cylinder STARLAB – ES166S Stick Cylinder POSITIVELY PLANTS - ES152 Level: II (4) Length of Time: 8 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $110 Students compare a variety of common seeds by sorting them according to physical properties. Students compare similar parts of each of the different plants as these seeds germinate and grow. STRUCTURES AND FORCES - ES154 Level: II Length of Time: 8 to 10 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, manipulating Price: $125 Students construct a variety of objects such as towers, bridges and pinwheels and compare their relative strengths using weights. This unit blends construction with art and problem solving. SUBSYSTEMS AND VARIABLES - ES155 Level: II (3) Length of Time: 15 to 20 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing, collecting data Price: $173 Students compare many variables which influence the outcomes of very simple experiments. They record data collected during their experiments and begin to develop the concept that mini sub-systems exist within larger general systems. THREE PIGS - ES187 Level: I (1) Length of Time: 4 to 6 weeks Skills: Problem solving, measuring, Price: $110

record keeping, observing, predicting, experimenting This new MST based kit encourages students to problem solve, research information, incorporate math, design and construct small houses. The final outcome is the “wolf test” in which the student's houses are exposed to the "huff and puff" of the big, bad wolf (hair dryer or small fan) to see if their houses remain standing. WATERPLAY - ES158 Level: I (K) Length of Time: 10 to 12 weeks Skills: Observing, comparing Price: $67 Through a variety of experiences with a large water "pool" students develop an awareness of some of the properties by transferring water from one container to another using funnels, tubes and containers of various sizes. They also produce bubbles and observe some simple properties of both small and large bubbles.

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WEATHER STATION - ES188 Level: II (3-4) Length of Time: 8-10 weeks Skills: Problem solving, measuring, Price: $110 record keeping, observing, experimenting, gathering data

In this MST-based kit, students research information about weather and the types of instruments needed for accurate weather readings. They problem-solve to determine what supplies, design, and instruments they might need to construct a station. Following construction, the students take accurate measurements 2x a day (or more), for 4 days. They then analyze the information gathered, graph results, and then present their findings. This kit also has a very short sit-down test. The test consists of math, science and technology design questions, based on the actual activities in the kit.

Performance Test Kits Grade 4 Test Kit (Complete) – ESPET $ Call for Quote (without balances) $ Call for Quote

Grade 8 Test Kit (Complete) $ Call for Quote Regents Earth Science New TBA Grade 3 and 4 Practice Manipulatives – see page 6

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Other kits that we have in stock but are not listed

ES103 Brine Shrimp – great for life cycles and the observations of small things. ES149 Changes in our World – teaches our responsibility to the natural world and its cycles ES182 Chemical Survey and Solutions & Pollution (Sepup kit) – the chemistry of dilutions ES168 Consuming & Conserving – this deals with consuming and conserving resources. ES185 Determining Threshold Limits (Sepup kit) – good for middle school chemistry ES118 Geoblocks – these are kits of blocks with the geometric shapes ES186 Household Chemicals (Sepup Kit) – shows a basic understanding of chemistry ES130 Mechanical Building – students use creativity to build using dowels, pulleys, etc ES134 Mobiles – Students understand the basic principals of balance by designing mobiles. ES138 Pendulums – Good problem solving activities dealing with the motion of pendulums. ES184 Plastic in our lives (Sepup kit) – this introduces polymer chemistry. ES170 Resources and Responsibilities – This deals with the use and misuse of our resources. ES151 Sound – the study of pitch and amplification using a variety of hand made instruments.

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Growing Healthy Growing Healthy is a New York State approved, comprehensive, school health education program for grades K-6. Growing Healthy promotes self-esteem and decision-making skills, enabling students to adopt healthy, responsible attitudes and behaviors. A wide variety of media is used to accomplish the developmentally appropriate goals and objectives at each grade level. This hands-on program facilitates integration across content areas and is flexible to meet the needs of individual districts. High quality, varied materials and thorough teacher training are major aspects of the curriculum, together ensuring exciting, effective student learning. All Growing Healthy kits are correlated to the newest version of the curriculum (1996). They are more user-friendly, streamlined, and have updated videos and colorful books. (There is no option to rent without videos; all kits will have the videos in them.) All formerly “add-on” curriculum pieces (tobacco education, AIDS education, violence prevention, etc.) are integrated into the lessons. Drug-Free Schools monies may be used to procure the kits. However, this stream of money may not be used for teacher’s manuals or training. Kindergarten – “Happiness is Being Healthy” $200.00/ half year Grade 1 – “Super Me” $300.00/half year Grade 2 – ‘Sights & Sounds” $300.00/half year Grade 3 – “The Body: It’s Framework & Movement” $300.00/half year Grade 4 – “Our Digestion, Our Nutrition, Our Health” $350.00/half year Grade 5 – “About Our Lungs & Our Health” $350.00/half year Grade 6 – “Our Health & Our Hearts” $400.00/half year