plain jane Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I know this is supposed to be fun- the shopping, the looking around and comparing, the buying, and finally, the having the big boxes shipped to your house!! :D But, I'm completely overwhelmed and have been for quite some time. There seems to be SO many science kits out there and I don't know which to choose or how to choose between them. :( I've looked at: Great Science Adventures GEMS DELTA Science Science Excursion Thames and Kosmos various kits on homesciencetools.com Young Scientists kits Ugh! Somebody help me make a decision. I'm looking for physics kits (anything related to physical science, not any one aspect in particular). How do you decide? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieZ Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Details, we need details! How old are your kids? What subjects are you looking for? What have you tried before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Details, we need details! How old are your kids? What subjects are you looking for? What have you tried before? Grade 4. I'm looking for all aspects of physical science- anything to do with Physics basically. :D I haven't bought complete kits before. This year we used RSO Chem and I got the lab supplies together myself. The year before we did Apologia and again I pulled together all the supplies myself. We did use some Young Scientist kits in gr1 to go with NOEO but not many. I would be okay with pulling together my own materials but since I can't find a spine for Physics that I love, I'm going thinking of building my lesson plans (and reading) for the year around the experiment kits I buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahmoffour Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 (edited) What about Noeo Science? They have a physics kit or you can buy the experiements/books separately: http://www.noeoscience.com/physI.html Oops, the above link is for the Physics I kit, they have a Physics II kit for Gr.4 and up: http://www.noeoscience.com/physII.html Edited June 4, 2010 by sahmoffour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I've used the Nutshells (Delta) and the Young Scientist kits. The Nutshells have essentially everything you need in the kit (a huge plus) and the materials are generally reasonably high quality. The downside is that the instructions are not always as helpful as they could be and there is no teacher's guide to give expected outcomes or answers. They are very much discovery oriented and not interested in correct answers. The Young Scientists kits drove me nuts. We used them six years ago and at that time they did not contain everything you needed and the materials were of poor quality. Many times things that were very necessary were broken or misshapen. On the bright side, the instructions were fairly good, though they did tend to dumb things down to the point of being incorrect more frequently than I would like. I've had pretty good luck with kits from Home Science Tools, though I would prefer to use secular materials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandyb Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Have you ever seen these: http://www.academyofscienceforkids.com/kits/index.php She has different physics kits available. These are wonderful because they come with everything you need, they have great experiments and are fun to use. My kids love them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganClassicalPrep Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Have you looked at elemental science? I haven't looked at the physics course yet, but I've looked at the biology and Intro to Science for K (which we are planning to use this year) and really like the look of them. It would be a spine, and you would have to get extra stuff, but it seems like a great program. It has experiments, extra readings, narrations, vocabulary, etc. http://www.elementalscience.com/physics.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Have you ever seen these:http://www.academyofscienceforkids.com/kits/index.php She has different physics kits available. These are wonderful because they come with everything you need, they have great experiments and are fun to use. My kids love them! :lol::lol: Yes, these were the kits that finally set me over the edge :willy_nilly: I simply can't handle making this kind of decision. It seems like most people on this board have used none, or only one so it's hard to get a direct comparison. And rightfully so.. they're all fairly pricey so I wouldn't expect people have tried many different ones. Oy. Eeny Meeny Miny Mo :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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