NEW PRODUCTS FOR 2008

Human Heart Walk-Thru

Book illustrations and hand-out diagrams for the human heart are boring. Get your students up out of their seats and literally walk the path of blood through the heart! The Human Heart Walk-Thru mat measures 50” x 60” and comes with a convenient storage bag. This is a perfect review and quiz product for your grade 6-8 students. A teacher’s guide provides additional information, activities, and assessment sheets for the classroom.

Planet Walk

Wow your grade 3-6 students with this accurate scale model of our solar system. Your students can see how empty the solar system truly is when they see the size of the planets at the same scale as their spacing. The kit comes complete with two sets of large planet cards. One scaled for use on a basketball court and the other for a football field. Also included is a teacher’s guide filled with interesting information and awesome astronomical activities. Using the provided resources, the instructor is able to provide enough information and comparisons to every day items to fill an entire class period and ignite excitement for future lessons.

Economy Celestial Globe

This Economy Celestial Globe can be a low-cost alternative to our #300 Celestial Globe or #310 Basic Celestial Globe. This Economy Celestial Globe measures 8” in diameter and illustrates many of the same astronomical concepts as the larger versions. The Globe can be disassembled for easier storage. Constellations, right ascension and declination lines, and the ecliptic cover the Globe. A movable Earth and Sun complete the kit. A Teacher’s Guide with assembly instructions and activities is included.

Water Activities

Study the inventions of ancient science with this great 3-in-1 water activities kit. Students in grades 8-12 will learn how simple principles of gravity, pressure, and measurement helped inventors of long ago build these machines to make life easier. The kit includes inventions like the Hero’s Fountain and Clepsydra (or Water Clock). The teacher’s guide includes complete assembly instructions as well as activities students can engage in for each invention. The essentials kit does not include ring stand, rings, flask.

Pictoquiz

Pictoquiz is a new way to review math facts! Your student answers the question on each card and matches it to the answer sheet (inserted into the base of the game board). When all cards in the set have been answered correctly, a related picture will appear. Great small group activity! Includes 2 piece game board, 4 sets of 12 cards, 4 answer sheets, instruction sheet. Game boards stack up nicely for easy and compact storage. Individual card sets are available without the game board.

Tumbled Leopard Skin Agate

250lbs available - 1/2"-3/4" size

Teacher’s Table of the Elements

The Teacher’s Table of the Elements is a must have for the chemistry classroom. Teach your students the elements using easy to remember characters with connections to the elements using fun associations. The kit includes a set of character cards of the most common elements used in chemistry teaching along with useful information on the back. Use the Focus Box to hone in on key characteristics of the elements. The set also includes a set of cards with the standard symbols for a more traditional view of the periodic table. The teacher’s guide has suggested lessons and fun activities to make your table usable all year round!

Geology Fact Book

The Geology Fact Book is a concise booklet filled with geological information. Illustrations include photographs, charts and graphs detailing facts about the Earth’s composition, rock, erosion, fossils, and geologic time.

Skeleton

Much like our life size skeleton model, students can explore this model as a visual aid for physiology. This model features nerve roots, spinal cord the vertebral artery, cartilage highlighted in green and a herniated disk. A detailed key is included.

Famous Scientist Kit - Curie

This kit contains enough materials for a small group of 4-5 students to perform the 5 activities included in the Teacher’s Guide. This two time Nobel Peace Prize winner became famous for the discovery of Polonium and Radium.

Famous Scientist Kit - McClintock

This kit contains enough materials for a small group of 4-5 students to perform the 4 activities included in the Teacher’s Guide. This Nobel Peace Prize winner for Physiology is also one of the world’s most distinguished cytogeneticists.

Edison - Inflatable Bust

Einstein - Inflatable Bust

Franklin - Inflatable Bust

Galileo - Inflatable Bust

Bear Expressions

Emotions are difficult concepts for children to understand. They can certainly express them naturally in their own ways, but understanding them and distinguishing them from each other visually can be quite confusing. Bear expressions is a jigsaw puzzle which has the added dimension of being a discovery tool that helps children come to terms with their daily emotions. By changing the bear’s expression, they learn to understand emotions and feelings and with this understanding comes a sense of control.

Human Emotion Face Paddles

Children can learn about human emotions through play with this set of 6 face paddles. They will inspire conversation, creative role play and story telling in children. 6 Pieces - Happy, Sad, Angry, Surprised, Afraid, Laughing.