Karenciavo Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 For those of you completing chemistry at home, what chemistry lab kit do you buy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 We use Apologia Chemistry, so we buy the one put together specifically for this text from Nature's Workshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 My teen used the MicroChem Kit. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie-Knits Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 with no problems. My teen used the MicroChem Kit. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv2quilt Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 We used the Apologia kit that has everything in it from Home Training Tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev in B'ville Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 The Joy of Chemistry, which is a separate book, as our lab book/guide. This wasn't our spine, but it supplied excellent at home labs with easy to acquire ingredients. Everything you need is listed in the front of the book and my dd found it quite fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 We did Apologia last year, and bought the kit that Sonlight sells. Worked great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 If you're using Arce.pologia, I'd suggest that you get the recommended kit. If you are doing another program, take a look at the book that was recommended here a while back (was it Janice in NJ??). The title is Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments by Thompson. It is a fantastic resource! I used it a lot this past year while teaching Singapore Level O Chemistry in our co-op. The really cool thing is that he gives you alternative chemicals in case you cannot find something. The author is available through his website to answer questions and there is also a forum you can use. One his website (http://www.homechemlab.com) you can purchase a subscription for $18 which gives you an answer key as well as monthly newsletters. Homesciencetools.com is an excellent resource for purchasing chemicals and equipment, although ebay has been a great place for me when purchasing glassware (but I'm stocking a larger lab). Ds#3 (the science guy) is always amazed at the cool chemicals contained is normal household products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 We used "The Spectrum" from Beginnings Publishing. Taught the course to one of our sons and two of his friends. It was great fun as a group effort ! (good course, too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie of KY Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Home science tools has lots of options for any curriculum. Some are curriculum specific and others are not. If you are wanting a chem lab with equipment and chemicals, then the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments is fantastic, but it isn't cheap to get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynnG in Arizona Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 We used "The Spectrum" from Beginnings Publishing. Taught the course to one of our sons and two of his friends. It was great fun as a group effort ! (good course, too) We used this too and loved it. It's from the author of Rainbow Science. The chemistry kit is incredibly complete and requires only a bottle of distilled water to go with it. We've had one child do Spectrum and one child do Apologia, and my DH (who has a really strong background in chemistry) prefers Spectrum. The labs are more complex and more interesting - but still very do-able for the homeschool family. By the way . . . the author of Rainbow/Spectrum also puts out a short math course called Bridge Math that is designed to get students ready for chemistry. It is excellent, and I highly recommend it - regardless of which chemistry course you choose. :) HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in MD Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 although we liked Apologia, we did yearn for more lab work. We did both the standard and advanced courses. The year that we did the standard course we used the kit from Hometraining and we also bought that kit for this year as well for advanced. But it wasn't enough "fun" for ds so I bought him the Thames and Kosmos C3000 kit.http://www.amazon.com/Thames-Kosmos-645014-CHEM-C3000/dp/B00007B8M6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1242663426&sr=1-1 I didn't pay this much for it though...it has gone up quite a bit....:confused: It has lots of fun ways to burn down the house! No, seriously, it has more experiments using real stuff, so it got his interest. And I wanted him to feel more secure in his experience going off to college in the fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janice H Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 http://knol.google.com/k/andy-sae/chemistry-demos/pkv1msnfezbs/3# I found this site by accident. From what I can tell a California community college prof. created this site with the theme, "Dispelling Chemophobia". Here are many ways to use up old craft, home improvement and/or home cleaning tools and chemicals. Looks like a parent should be at home with the experimenter in case of unforeseen "results". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 But it wasn't enough "fun" for ds so I bought him the Thames and Kosmos C3000 kit.http://www.amazon.com/Thames-Kosmos-645014-CHEM-C3000/dp/B00007B8M6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1242663426&sr=1-1 I didn't pay this much for it though...it has gone up quite a bit....:confused: And I wanted him to feel more secure in his experience going off to college in the fall. We got this one too. Even though it didn't match his chemistry program at all, there are 370, or around there, experiments...and my direction for home ed is to get as much hands on experience as possible, which this gives...for the SAT you'd need to research the type of experiments online so that you are familiar with other kinds of equipment... My husband, who has his PhD in chemistry, is quite impressed with the types of experiments in this kit saying they are college level (ok, he graduated more than 30 years ago, so I'm not sure how to compare that any more :) - but it tells you that they are at least somewhat sophisticated... For a mom who cowers at making explosive sounds, I cannot say that I "liked" them all, but my children did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted May 19, 2009 Author Share Posted May 19, 2009 Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 http://knol.google.com/k/andy-sae/chemistry-demos/pkv1msnfezbs/3# Janice, Thanks for mentioning this site. I passed it along to my husband who teaches middle school science and high school Chemistry at a homeschooling resource center. Here's what he said, "Thank you. Those are some pretty good demos. I would use them for middle school level for sure. For higher level, it's probably best to use them in the context of a more complete discussion of what's going on with the demonstration. I will keep this site in mind." Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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