Educational Classroom Kits and Activities
Let us help you to identify activity kits to meet your specific Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) needs! Our hands-on kits have been developed by expert scientists and educators to incorporate cross cutting concepts, science and engineering practices and disciplinary core ideas. The activities, designed to provide students with a complete understanding of science as they progress through grade levels, are easily introduced into Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering lessons.
Ward's® Introduction to Electrophoresis Lab System Set
This inexpensive set of materials outfits your whole class for gel electrophoresis at a great price.
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Ward's® Plant Mineral Deficiency Lab Activity
Combine Hydroponics and the Study of Mineral Deficiencies
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New York State Living Environment: Relationships and Biodiversity Lab
Learn about Structures within a Plant Stem
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Gastropod Fossil Study Pack
We’ve assembled this special Fossil Study Pack to make your classroom activities on ancient life both rewarding and more cost effective.
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Ward's® Biochemistry Of Life's Macromolecules Lab Activity
Students research a variety of macromolecules.
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New York State Regents Package #2: Locating an Epicenter Package
The New York State Regents Examination in Physical Setting/Earth Science (Part D) consists of two components: a laboratory performance test and a written test. The performance test features three different stations of hands-on activities.
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Ward's® Qualitative Water Analysis Lab Activity
Test Collected Samples for Common Industrial and Biological Contaminants
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Virus Modeling Kit
This interdisciplinary kinesthetic lab has groups of students building their own models of 5 different viruses: tobacco mosaic, mumps, influenza, potato X, and a bacteriophage.
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Stoichiometry Survival Kit
This three part kit uses chalkboard models, manipulatives, and demonstrations to help students gain a better understanding of the math involved with chemistry.
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Diagnosis: You Are The Doctor Activity Guide
Students become doctors with this medical diagnosis activity kit.
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Ward's® Manipulate Your Own Action Potential Neuron
Students use the manipulatives in this activity kit, developed by Teacher Carole MacMullan, to depolarize and repolarize a neuron as they model sodium and potassium ion movement through gated channel proteins embedded in the plasma membrane of a neuron.
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Create a Vertebrate Kit
Working individually, students choose a combination of the attributes of three of the five main classes of vertebrates and use the materials in this kit to design and construct their own vertebrates.
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Ward's® Bird Beaks Lab Activity
Pecking at foam packing peanuts with spoons, golf tees, and clothes pins, students simulate the effects of different beak characteristics on birds’ attempts to gather food.
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Ward's® New York Vikings: A Lab Activity in Forensic Anthropology and Geology
Analyze human bone, artifacts, and rocks.