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Equipment name	Sources	Suggestions for use	Notes
Safety and Science: A Guidance Manual for New Zealand Schools Free to all NZ schools		Detailed reference book	All schools have been issued with a copy for every teacher of science.
Scales (kitchen, diet)	Sports shops Budget retail stores	Measuring mass Cooking and making food Predicting and estimating
Scissors	Stationers Budget retail stores	Construction
Sieves	Plastic goods retailers Budget retail stores	Straining Filtering Separating mixtures	Can use old net curtains or pantyhose instead.
Skateboard	Sports shops Budget retail stores	Friction Safety Motion Fair tests	Students can provide their own.
Slag hammers	Hardware shops	Breaking soft rocks	Wear safety goggles. Do not allow mass destruction of geological samples or sites. For safety reasons, do not use carpentry hammers for breaking rocks.
Spoons (wooden spoons and teaspoons)	Supermarkets Budget retail stores	Stirring
Stoppers (rubber, cork)	Scientific suppliers Supermarkets		Stoppers can be rubber or cork. Wine-bottle corks may be used.
Stopwatches	Electrical suppliers Sports shops	Timing, such as animal studies, pulse rates, fair tests, speed	Stopwatches could be borrowed from secondary schools.

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