Lab Kit for BrightThinker Grade 8

Get the lab materials for doing the labs, activities, and investigations in BrightThinker Science Grade 8! This BrightThinker science lab kit contains the harder-to-find items you’ll need for the hands-on experiments, including dialysis tubing, a spring scale, a UV black light, and so much more! Expand the ‘Contents’ tab below for a complete list of included items. BrightThinker Grade 8 science comes alive with these rigorous, hands-on experiments!

Use our custom designed BrightThinker science lab kit to:

• Investigate the density of different materials. 
• Make models of atoms and molecules. 
• Explore inertia and demonstrate Newton's first law of motion. 
• Demonstrate balance and unbalanced forces. 

With this BrightThinker science kit, your student will engage in these hands-on labs, activities, and investigations:

• observing the impact of environmental pollution (e.g. oil spills) on wildlife
• determining whether a plastic bag is permeable to water and starch
• testing the conditions necessary for life on other planets
• calculating the average speed of different objects

Purchase the BrightThinker Science Grade 8 course separately!

More Information

• Safety Information (SDS)

Items included in the kit:

• Ammonia test strips, 5 pack
• Apron
• Baking soda, 30g
• 4 balloons
• 4 AA batteries
• Beaker, glass
• Beaker, plastic, 2L
• 3 Beaker, plastic, 500mL
• Brush
• Calcium chloride, 10g
• Clay, 1.5lb
• Cornstarch, 450g
• 2 Cotton balls, pack
• 7 cups
• Dialysis tubing, 12”
• Digital scale
• Dishwashing liquid detergent, 15mL
• 3 dropper bottles
• Epson salt, 450g
• Feather
• Foam tube
• Food coloring, green
• Food coloring, red
• Forceps
• Friction block
• Globe
• Glow stick
• Graduated cylinder
• 3 graham crackers, pack
• Index card
• Iodine biological stain solution, 30mL
• Litmus paper, blue, pack
• Litmus paper, red, pack
• Magnifying glass
• 35 marbles
• Masking tape
• Measuring spoons
• 12 modeling doughs
• Nitrate & Nitrite test strips, 5 pack
• Parafilm, 1ft
• Periodic table
• Permanent marker
• Petroleum jelly, 2oz
• pH papers, pack
• Pie plate
• 10 pipets
• 2 plastic bags
• Rubber band
• 2 rulers
• Safety gloves
• Safety goggles
• 3 salts, 30g
• Sand
• Seeds
• Sodium carbonate, 30g
• Sodium nitrate, 30g
• Sodium phosphate, 30g
• Soil
• 2 spring scales
• Stirring rod
• Tape measure
• Tennis ball
• 2 thermometers
• Toothpicks, pack
• Toy car
• 2 trays
• UV black light
• Vegetable oil
• Water bottle
• 2 weights, 100g
• Wood block
• Wooden stick
• Yeast packer
• 3 zip-close bags

Other items needed:

• Aquatic plants
• Calculator
• Colored Pencils
• Construction Paper
• Crackers
• Distilled water
• Flashlight
• Freezer
• Glue
• Hard-Boiled Eggs
• Hot Plate
• Lemon Juice
• Light source
• Milk
• Mortar and pestle
• Orange juice
• Paper towel
• Penny
• Scissors
• Spoon
• Stopwatch
• Stream water
• Sugar cubes
• Timer
• Vinegar
• Watch with a second hand
• Water

Additional information from Home Science Tools:

1. The products in this kit are intended for parent/teacher use to complete curriculum lab activities with students.
2. Some items are not designed for or intended primarily for children ages 12 and under.
3. Some materials and many chemicals we provide are dangerous and may be harmful if misused. With your purchase, you are assuming all responsibility for any injuries or damages resulting from the storage, use, and disposal of all materials and chemicals.
4. Some products may differ from the web image (such as clay, food coloring, etc.)
5. While our kits conveniently contain most of the items you'll need to complete the labs, they do not include some common household items or more expensive items like microscopes and live cultures.

We guarantee that you will be happy with every purchase from HST. All products are covered by our 60-day money-back guarantee.

Don't need all of the items included in the kit? Check out our wish list for BrightThinker Grade 8!