Educational Hands-On Kits
Kits can be used by:
teachers, afterschool providers, summer day camp personnel, homeschool families and 4-H clubs
CHECK OUT POLICY
- Call two weeks in advance to reserve kit.
Kits may be checked out for up to three weeks. View the dates kits are available: Educational HandsON Kits Check-out Calendar
- A $30 annual membership fee, per school building, provides access to all kits. The following organizations have already paid the 2007-2008 annual fee:
· Cedar Rapids Home School
· Ely Public Library
· Four Oaks
· Isaac Newton School
· Marion Home School
· McKinley School
· St. Matthew's School
· Summit School
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If your organization has not paid, download and complete the Annual Membership Form and mail to us with your annual fee.
Contact Lynne Rechterman, larecht@iastate.edu or Cheryl Collins, collinsc@iastate.edu at the Linn County Extension Office to reserve/check-out a Kit.
Upon completing a kit, fill out a Linn County 4-H Statistical Report, available to you as an editable Microsoft Word document or Adobe PDF file, and return to Linn County Extension along with kit.
You can download and print an Educational HandsON Kits Brochure for a complete listing of kits or you can scan through the list below.
Clover Kids Kits
• Be Smart with Money
• Chemical Reactions
Make crystal garden
• Citizenship
• Dig Those Dinosaurs
• Entomology
• Experiencing Disabilities
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Experimenting with the Five Senses
• Fiber and Fabric Fun
• Have you Eaten a Flower Today
Fruits, Vegetables and Plants
• I Am Special
• Japan
Understanding Different Cultures
• Making Air Work
• Nature Fun
• Our Feathered Friends
• The Wonder of Water
4-H Kits
• Recharge
Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Invent
African American Inventors and Inventing
Classroom Science Kits
(Grades 3-5)
• Air Pressure
• Density/Surface Tension
• Electricity
• Friction
• Magnet
• Math
Real Life Activities
Wonderwise Kits
(Grades 3-8)
Wonderwise introduces you to women who have made science their career. Wonderwise kits provide a comprehensive instructional package that includes a video, activity book, and CD-ROM. With these kits, leaders and youth explore the world of scientists and discover together the fun of learning about science.
• African Plant Explorer
• Genetic Counselor
• Parasite Sleuth
• Pollen Detective
• Rainforest Ecologist
• Sea Otter Biologist
• Space Geologist
• Urban Ecologist
• Vet Detective
Super Science Kits
(Grades 3-12)
• Astronomy
Exploring the Universe
• Bridges and Structures
• DNA Extraction Kit
• DNA Fingerprinting
• Food in Space NASA
• GPS - Ready to Navigate
• Robotix
• Rockets Away
• Toys in Space
11/17/2005