I really like that it consolidates all our strewn out science equipment. The microscopes have not been getting enough use and I'm hoping having them more in view will inspire us. I inherited the dissection scope and the compound scope has gotten more use up to now, but we have plans. It's a bit of a work in progress and as our year in science progresses I'm sure we'll do some rearranging.
Organizing everything also helped us spot some shortfalls. We added a compass, a flexible measuring tape, a set of dual metric and imperial measuring cups, a bug box, and a bug field guide. We got the bug field guide from the Xerces Society. They have some good fact sheets on their website about bees if anyone's working on a project on that.
Our favorites from the resources basket:
The boys love the guides that fold since they're light and they can carry them in their backpacks.
If you've got a favorite science tool that you use all the time and it looks like we're missing it, please add it to the comments box since I'm looking for suggestions.
2 comments:
Your science cart is a really neat idea! I hope it works well for you. Just stopping by from the Hop!
Thanks Rachel.
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