Science Kits and Rentals

Climate Kit

This kit is full of lessons to help you discuss the ideas of climate. There are many many amazing manipulatives showing animal adaptations to specific climates, and changes in climate over time. (pictures to come)

Laser Thermometers Kit

This is a bin of 20 laser thermometers for you to use with your students.  There are no lesson materials with this kit. 

Adaptations Kit

This kit is full of different teeth, bones, skulls, and manipulatives for you to let students investigate how different adaptations to their structures allow organisms to be successful in certain environments based on their functions.  (pics to come)

Fossil Kit 

Explore Utah’s prehistoric past using the specimens in this Fossil Kit! Discover the characteristic that make something a fossil, compare and contrast trace and mineral replacement fossils, and understand the process of fossil discovery by excavating and mapping a mock dig site. Kit includes lesson plans, video, fossil replicas, books, hand lenses, and more! 

Created and provided by the Utah Natural History Museum, meets 4th grade Standard 4 - Fossils, and 8th grade Standard 3 - Rocks and Fossils.

Seasons and Moon Phases Kit

Teachers will use golf balls and a black light to allow students to discover the way that the Moon appears to change shape as it changes its position around Earth. Inquiry-based activities use Earth globes equipped with solar cells to collect meaningful data and investigate the differences in the amount of energy received with changes in sun angle. Students will discover the cause of seasonal change through an analysis of the evidence they collect. Lessons allow students to come to a more concrete understanding of seasons, and answer the question of why we see different constellations at different parts of the year.

Created and provided by the Clark Planetarium, meets 6th grade Standard 1 - Moon Phases and Standard 2 - Seasons.