Intermediate Kits Available from the Sarnia Lambton Science Centre

The following chart shows the Grades 7-8 portion of the curriculum grid found on page 8 of the Ontario Science and Technology Curriculum document published in 1998.  Science kits titles available under each strand and grade are shown in fuchsia.  Scroll down to read booking procedures. 

* Ray boxes are packed three to a box and must be ordered separately from the optics kit, which does not contain ray boxes.

Booking Science Kits

• All you have to do is e-mail sciencecentre@lkdsb.net, 
  
  OR  simply call the Science Resource Centre at (519) 541-0107,
  
  OR  fax your order to (519) 541-1353. 
  
  We'll need your name, school, which kit(s) you would like, and when approximately you'd like them delivered.  
  
  [NOTE: These instructions are for the Sarnia Science Centre, which serves all "A" and "B" courier routes (Sarnia Lambton schools).  If your school is in the Chatham Kent area, click here to return to your main menu.]
  
• If there is a copy of the kit you requested available we'll do our best to get it to you within the dates specified.  If not, we'll recommend the closest date available.
   
• Kits will arrive with the regular school courier.
   
• You will have your kit for approximately six weeks.  A return date will be listed on the shipping label.  DO NOT remove this label.  
   
• Your kit is returned to the science centre by the same courier who delivered it.  Just leave it out wherever your school secretary leaves the mailbags for pick-up.  The courier comes in the morning, so you'd be best to leave your kit out the night before.
   
• VERY IMPORTANT:  PLEASE check your inventory before sending kits back.  A brightly coloured, laminated inventory sheet is included in each box.  Return all posters, print resources, non-consumable items, unused consumables and/or empty containers, including lock top bags that can be refilled.  In many cases, the kits will go out again to another school within a couple days of their return from your classroom.  Imagine how disappointing it would be to receive a kit with some of the inventory missing.  The time you take to check the kit inventory is appreciated.
   
• Should anything be missing/broken, please leave a note explaining this for science centre staff.
   
• Booking for the upcoming school year can be made in late June.  If you wish, you can book all your kits at this time.
   
• Note that S.E.P. science kits can only be booked by teachers working within the Lambton Kent District School Board or the St. Clair Catholic District School Board.
   
• If you have any questions, call  (519) 541-0107 or e-mail sciencecentre@lksb.net.

Kit Descriptions: return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Ecosystems
Grade	7	Strand	Characteristics of Living Things
A sampling of this kit inventory: Food chain, carbon cycle, and water cycle posters.  Bean seeds, cheesecloth, iodine, plastic planters, potting soil, beakers, bug viewers, funnels, garden trowels, graduated cylinders, magnifiers, pH paper, thermometers, student and teacher print resources.   return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Mixtures
Grade	7	Strand	Matter and Materials
A sampling of this kit inventory: Consumables (drink mix, flour, rice, laundry soap, sugar cubes, etc.), beakers, graduated cylinders, test tubes, goggles, aprons, student and teacher print resources.  return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Heat
Grade	7	Strand	Energy and Control
A sampling of this kit inventory:  Trouble light, test tubes, oven mitts, tea lights (to sit in sand-filled foil tart tins), pulse glass apparatus, smoke box, retort stands, student and teacher print resources.  return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Structures
Grade	7	Strand	Structures and Mechanisms
A sampling of this kit inventory:  Consumable building supplies (craft sticks, straws, balsa wood, etc.), tools, torsion demonstration, mass set and student and teacher print resources.  return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Earth's Crust
Grade	7	Strand	Earth and Space systems
A sampling of this kit inventory:  Rock samples and identification sets, hardness test kits, posters, tools, and student and teacher print resources. return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Cells
Grade	8	Strand	Life Systems
A sampling of this kit inventory:  Microviewers and microslides, dialysis tubing, pipettes, wire screening, beakers, forceps, graduated cylinders, wash bottle, and student and teacher print resources.  Note:  Microscopes are not included in this kit (although microviewers are included,) so if you wish to use the microscopes in this unit, that kit must be booked separately. return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Fluids
Grade	8	Strand	Matter and Materials
A sampling of this kit inventory:  Syringes, tubing, connectors (T, straight, one-way valves), graduated cylinders, beakers, liquids of differing densities, student and teacher print resources.  return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		Water Systems
Grade	8	Strand	Earth and Space Systems
A sampling of this kit inventory:  Baking pans, syringes, graduated cylinders, beakers, aquarium gravel, sand, food colouring, retort stand and clamps, student and teacher print resources.  return to chart     order kit

Kit Title		River Science
Grade	8	Strand	Earth and Space Systems
A sampling of this kit inventory:  This kit consists of 16 prepackaged activities that study the environmental health of a river system.   return to chart     order kit