LabPaq kits.....

[Heather in VA]

Can someone explain to me what you get with these kits and how you are using them? Are there any lessons with them or it is just supplies? Which kits have you used? Do you like them

Thanks
Heather

[HollyinNNV]

Can someone explain to me what you get with these kits and how you are using them? Are there any lessons with them or it is just supplies? Which kits have you used? Do you like them

Thanks
Heather

Coincidentally, I just received mine today. It is the chemistry kit with 14 experiments for high school. Supplies and a lab manual (on CD) are included. I just browsed through the lab manual and it is extremely comprehensive. I'm very, very impressed. You get lots of scientific background, detailed instructions and lots of questions to answer as you complete the experiment. I was curious to see how many items that I would need to come up with and there aren't many for this particular chemistry kit. I only noticed some common household items (like cotton swabs), food items (like egg), and easy to get items like rubbing alcohol. I'm very happy I won't be having to procure to many items myself.

DH (advanced scientific degree) was pretty skeptical about the kit. However, after looking it over, he's initially impressed. I am excited to get started.

Oh-and I ordered the kit Wednesday afternoon, paid for the cheapest shipping (UPS ground) and got my kit today. (CO-NV).
Let me know if there is anything else you'd like me to try and answer.
Holly

[EKS]

I have the chemistry kit. You get essentially everything in the kit. It is so incredibly different from the kits for elementary school where they consider "common household items" to be everything they don't feel like putting in the kit. Anyway--the lab manual is extremely well written (and doesn't require interpreting on my part, another first!). And the expected results are actually given in the teacher's materials.

Very thorough and very impressive.

[Emma]

These sound great. Do they go with a particular textbook? I'm wondering about icky biology next yr.....

[HollyinNNV]

They do not go with any particular textbook. However, the labs follow a pretty standard science "scope" so I don't think you can go wrong. Just look at the lab titles and you should be able to match up the proper lab with the proper chapter.

[Heather in VA]

These sound good. Do the labs appear to stand independently? In other words, if your book doesn't specifically address the particular topic of the lab would the information they supply be enough to understand what you are doing and what you are learning?

Heather

[mcconnellboys]

Wow! Just in time for ME!!!!! Yeah!!! I really like the look of these, thanks! Now can you all tell me which texts you plan on using these with?

[Carmen_and_Company]

Oh, thank you, for posting your question, OP!

These science kits will come in handy during our home-grown summer school.

[HollyinNNV]

These sound good. Do the labs appear to stand independently? In other words, if your book doesn't specifically address the particular topic of the lab would the information they supply be enough to understand what you are doing and what you are learning?

Heather

For chemistry, probably not. There is a lot of information given. However, I do think that it assumes that you have a text teaching you how to balance equations or explaining what a mole is. I would not use the kit without a decent high school textbook to accompany the labs.

[HollyinNNV]

Wow! Just in time for ME!!!!! Yeah!!! I really like the look of these, thanks! Now can you all tell me which texts you plan on using these with?

We are using Prentice Hall Chemistry. It is challenging!
Holly

[HollyinNNV]

I wanted to post a follow-up. We just completed our first lab. We did the "properties of gases" lab. (That is either lab #3 or #4.) The lab took about 2.5 hours. That time includes set-up, reading the material, doing the lab, writing the answers to the questions, being thoroughly questioned by dad, building an atomic model of one of the reactions and clean-up.

Everything about the lab worked as the lab instructions said it should. The instructions were thorough enough for a 15 and 16 year old (two girls) to do without problems. The lab was interesting and the girls made the scientific "connections" without too much trouble.

Holly

[hornblower]

So, I'm looking here & I see tons of different kits.
http://www.labpaq.com/product-overview/chemistry-overview-page

Which kit are we talking about in this thread?

pls & thx :)

[Michelle in AL]

Do you get to keep the kit or is it a rental type option?

[HollyinNNV]

So, I'm looking here & I see tons of different kits.
http://www.labpaq.com/product-overview/chemistry-overview-page

Which kit are we talking about in this thread?

pls & thx :)

I have CK101. I would have chosen CKS, if I had planned on using it for an entire year.

[HollyinNNV]

Do you get to keep the kit or is it a rental type option?

I do not know that there is a rental option. We purchased the kit to keep.
Holly

[Hoggirl]

the microchem kit that is suggested with Apologia???

TIA!

[HollyinNNV]

the microchem kit that is suggested with Apologia???

TIA!

Good question! Maybe someone out there has seen both kits. Anybody?