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Notes

Nails
  • Hardware stores
  • Testing hardness of minerals
  • Rusting and corrosion
  • Metal testing (different
    types of metal)
Use brass, steel, and galvanised nails.
Paint-mixing trays
  • Educational suppliers
  • Collecting
  • Testing acidity or starch
  • Small-scale experiments
Ice cube trays are a suitable alternative.

Perfume bottles

(empty or full)

  • Students' homes
  • Scent
  • Diffusion
  • Storage
 

Photographs

(old)

  • Students' homes
  • Newspaper offices
  • Museums
  • To show changes in land use
 

Prisms, glass

(equilateral, 50 mm)

  • Scientific suppliers
  • Display agents
  • Signwriters
  • Light and colour
  • Refraction
 
Probes  
  • Investigating rocks
  • Testing hardness of
    minerals

Old dental probes may be obtained from dentists.

Alternatively, use sharpened nails.

Pulleys
  • Stock agents
  • Hardware shops
  • Ship chandlers
  • Toys
  • Machines
  • Forces
  • Motion
  • Construction
  • LEGO Technic
Sturdy pulleys are required for primary students. These can be hired from some advisory or resource centres.
Rock and mineral kits
  • Geology Department at
    Otago University
  • Science Resource Centre at Dunedin College of Education
  • Growing crystals
  • Fossils
  • Jewellery
  • Earth Science, such as volcanos, erosion, weathering, stones,
    history of the Earth
Rock and mineral kits can be hired from some advisory or resource centres.
Rocks
  • Geology Department at
    Otago University
  • Science Resource Centre at Dunedin College of Education
  • Classification and grouping
  • Making comparisons and observations
 
Rulers and tape measure
  • Stationers
  • Budget retail stores
  • Educational suppliers
  • Measuring
  • Making telescopes
Use tape measures or
graduated bamboo stakes.

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