Quality Science Labs Hands-On Science Lab Kits

Since I posted a bunch of vendor e-mails before the Virtual School Symposium, only fair that I post the ones I receive after the conference too.  As with all of these vendor items, feel free to post comments on this if you have used their product or if you have opinions about the company or product (I mean that’s why I’m here, cause we all have opinions).

Dear Michael,

It was great to see you and all the other good people at the NACOL convention.

We have a heart for the children and know how valuable distance-learning can be in our troubled world.  The children truly are our future so we want to help you and Wayne State University, in any way we can, as you prepare them.  Let us know if you need a custom hands-on lab kit for your science experiments or if you would like to integrate our hands-on lab kits into your curriculum.  Please, please let us know how we can help you.

I’ve attached a brochure so you can review our products.  For the next school year we have plans to develop lab kits for AP Chemistry, AP Physics, and AP Biology as well as a Life Science lab kit.  Please let us know if you have special needs for a lab kit.

Best Regards,

John Eshelman
Quality Science Labs, LLC
Toll Free: 866-700-1884
Fax: 866-746-7431
www.qualitysciencelabs.com

QSL offers innovative science lab kits for home schools and
small schools that are academically sound and “ready-to-go”.
The labs help to make teaching science easy regardless of the
teacher’s experience or science background.  Order online, by
phone or by mail.
Quality Science Labs are:
Teacher friendly
Fast, easy set up and clean up
Well written, step-by-step manuals that guide you
and your students through each experiment
Any clean table can be a laboratory
Great for homeschool parents and instructors
teaching in or out-of-field
Cost effective way to provide a real hands-on
laboratory
Designed to offer time savings and be more
predictable than standard labs
Makes science teaching accessible and
achievable by almost anyone
All kits are coordinated with popular text books.
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P.O. Box 162, 32600 Highway 24, Lake George CO, 80827
Phone: 719.302.4874 or toll free 866.700.1884
Fax: 866.746.7431
“The home labs from Quality Science Labs are just excellent. These
people really know what they are doing! If you are teaching upper
level science to your own children or to a small classroom, these are
the kits you have been looking for. These are hard to find gems and
we highly recommend them!”
- Rebecca Kochenderfer
Senior Editor & Co-Founder, Homeschool.com, Inc.
“Homeschool Friendly Stamp of Approval: Best in Science, 2004.”
- Homeschooling Parent Magazine
Let Quality Science Labs, LLC help
you teach science.  Our kits are
used by public and private schools,
classrooms, independent study
students and homeschoolers.  The
kits step students through real
science experiments to help them
better understand science topics.
Science Lab Kits
Physical Science
The MicroPhySci Kit provides an academically challenging laboratory
curriculum for students in grades 7-10.  It is intended as the laboratory portion
of a physical science course providing a full year of labs.
We have designed the MicroPhySci Kit in order to make teaching and
preparation very convenient for the instructor.  It contains all materials
necessary except for a few common household items.  The kit contains
sufficient materials to do every experiment five times.
LAB EXPERIMENTS:
1. Metric Measurements 10. Energy
2. Density 11. Buoyancy
3. Chemical Reactions 12. Atomic Motion
4. Electrolysis of Water  and Diffusion
5. Acids, Bases, and Indicators 13. Electrical Circuits
6. Friction 14. Magnetism
7. Work 15. Sound Waves
8. Levers 16. Light Waves
9. Pulleys 17. Convex Lenses
MICROPHYSCI KIT CONTENTS:
10 Chemicals, 36 different
types of equipment, 112
page manual – all in a
plastic “shoe box”.
Earth Science
The Earth Science has 36 activities covering 10 major areas.  All labs are
well documented with an extended background to assist with learning.
The lab kit activities have the following titles.
I. Layers of the Earth  3.  Identifying Minerals, Luster
1.  Egg Lab  4.  Identifying Minerals, Hardness
II. Basic Tectonics.  5.  Identifying Minerals, Streak
1.  Subduction and Accretion  6.  Identifying Minerals, Cleavage
2.  Divergent Boundaries  7.  Identifying “Mystery” Minerals
III. Waves, Earthquakes and Tsunamis VII. Topography
1.  Wave Motion  1.  Making Contour Lines
2.  Liquefaction  2.  Labeling Maps
3.  Tsunami Waves  3.  Using a Topographical Map
IV. Volcanoes VIII. Oceans
1.  Volcanic Eruption  1.  The Salinity of Ocean Water
2.  Hot Spots  2.  Ocean Water Temperatures
V. Rock Cycle IX. Weather
1.  Viewing Igneous Rocks  1.  The Angle of the Sun
2.  Igneous Rock Formation  2.  Making a Sling Psychrometer
3.  Viewing Sedimentary Rocks  3.  Making a Barometer
4.  Making a Fossil  4.  Reading a Weather Map
5.  Metamorphic Rock X. Astronomy
6. – 8.  Making a Rock, Parts 1, 2, 3  1.  The Phases of the Moon
VI. Mineral Identification  2.  Visible and Invisible Sun Light
1.  The Silica Tetrahedron  3.  Ultra-Violet Light
2.  Identifying Minerals, Color
Designed for
independent study!
Various microscopes available
for biology and life science.
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kits.
Biology
The Biology lab kit has 28 hands-on experiments covering the introduction
to the microscope, cell labs, mitosis, bacteria, protozoa, fungus, plants,
and 7 dissection labs.
This exciting addition to our
lab kit lineup was designed
by a biology teacher and
homeschool mom.  Now
it’s easy to include a
complete biology lab
with your curricula.
Includes virtually
everything needed except
perishables.
LAB EXPERIMENTS:
1. Microscope: Structure and care 14. Protista Lab
2. Microscope: Magnification 15. Fungus Lab: Prepare and View
3. Preparing a Slide Using a Wet Mount  Squash Fungus
4. Microscope Drawings 16. Fungus Lab: Prepare and View
5. Cell Lab: Prepare and view a Plant  Mushroom Structures
Cell 17. Fungus Lab: Prepare and View
6. Cell Lab: Prepare and View Parts of  Yeast
a Plant Cell 18. Plant Lab: Monocot and Dicot
7. Cell Lab: Prepare and View Animal   Root, Leaf, and Stem
Cells & Compare them to Plant Cells 19. Plant Lab: The Parts of a Flower
8. Cell Lab: Observing Chloroplasts 20. Plant Lab: Internal Structures
and Cytoplasmic Streaming  of Monocots and Dicots
9. Cell Lab: A Selectively Permeable 21. Plant Lab: Plant Leaves
Membrane 22. Dissection: Worm
10. Mitosis Lab 23. Dissection: Crayfish
11. Bacteria Lab: Part 1 – Forms of 24. Dissection: Grasshopper
Bacteria 25. Dissection: Fish
12. Bacteria Lab: Part 2 – Soap for 26. Dissection: Frog
Killing Bacteria (Optional Lab) 27. Dissection: Cow Eye
13. Bacteria Lab: Part 3 – Antibiotics 28. Dissection: Fetal Pig
for Killing Bacteria (Optional Lab)
QSL BIOLOGY LAB KIT CONTENTS:
10X magnifying glass, 150 ml beaker, blank slides, concave slides, cover
slips (100), dissection kit (12 piece), plastic reusable dissection tray, 3
types of stain, lens paper, slide case, 8 prepared slides, 7 dissection
specimens 278 page manual, and more
The Biology lab kit is available in three components.
1.) The equipment kit with the specimen kit and the manual
2.) The microscope
3.) A refill kit
To reuse the lab simply purchase a refill kit..
Chemistry
Now you can set up an affordable hands-on lab for your chemistry
students.  Based on the Microscale method, the MicroChem Kit offers
a complete lab with virtually everything necessary to perform basic lab
experiments.  There is no need for fume hoods and other costly safety
equipment.  Disposal of waste products is not a problem because of the
low quantities of actual chemical used (about 1/100th of the chemicals a
typical lab would consume).  The chemical reagents are ready to use and
require no mixing or further preparation.
To use with many popular textbooks, simply follow the order listed on the
coordination sheets included with the kits, and do the hands-on labs at the
suggested times.
Designed for small schools, independent study and homeschool students,
and instructors who may not be chemistry experts, the MicroChem Kit
offers a virtually fail-safe method for including labs in your curriculum.
LAB EXPERIMENTS:
1. Paper Chromatography
2. Melting Points, Super Cooling
3. Electrical Conductivity of Several Solutions
4. Mole Ratios
5. Double Replacement Reactions
6. Oxidation-Reduction
7. Decomposition
8. Boyle’s Law
9. Charles’s Law
10. Solubility Product Constant
11. pH and pH Indicators
12. A Microscale Titration
13. Molar Mass by Titration
14. A Buffer Solution
15. Reaction Rates: The Effect of Concentration
16. Reaction Rates: The Effect of Temperature
17. Electrochemistry: Galvanic Cells
MICROCHEM KIT CONTENTS:
26 Chemicals, 27 different types of equipment, 119 page manual – all in
a plastic “shoe box”.  Developed with safety in mind, the kit contains no
concentrated acids or bases.  The equipment is mostly plastic to reduce
breakage.
New:  Optional Organic Chemistry Supplement.
This add-on to the MicroChem Kit gives you 4 additional experiments
covering organic compounds and modeling.  Help your students discover
more about the fascinating area of organic chemistry.
Contains a lab manual, 101-piece molecular model kit, and enough
chemicals and equipment to do every experiment five times.
Physics
The QSL Physics Lab kit helps teachers in small schools or home schools
overcome the challenges often experienced with science experiments.  The
innovative hands-on laboratory exercises were developed to be convenient
for teachers while clearly teaching a scientific principles.
These are serious physics
lab experiments designed
to prepare your students
for higher education.
LAB EXPERIMENTS:
1. A Recording Timer, The acceleration of gravity
2. The Sum of vectors
3. Newton’s Second Law
4. Acceleration on an Inclined Plane
5. Potential and Kinetic Energy
6. Coefficient of Friction
7. Work and Power
8. Projective Motion
9. Conservation Of Momentum
10. Hooke’s Law, a Spring Constant
11. Centripetal Force
12. A Pendulum
13. The Speed of Sound in Air
14. Specific Heat of Aluminum
15. Latent Heat of Fusion
16. Refraction
17. Lenses
18. Wavelength of a Laser Beam
19. Wavelengths of the Visible Spectrum
20. An Electronic Breadboard
21. Ohm’s Law
22. Capacitors
23. Diodes
24. Transistors
QSL PHYSICS LAB KIT CONTENTS:
58 different types of equipment and 150 page manual – all in a plastic
container.