Teaching / Demo / Lab Equipment

Sherlock-Sized & Lighted This XL magnifier measures 3-3/8" dia with a 5" long handle, all rubber coated. Glass lens is 1.5X and surrounded by (3) bright white energy efficient COB LED strips that run on (2) included "AA" batteries. Tap-on, tap-off...

Call it pocket microscopy. Our teensiest tiniest double-lens microscope is just 1-1/2” long x 19/32” dia with a barrel that will pull out another 1/2” for coarse focus. Rated at 16X, includes (3) AG7 batteries and comes with a teensy...

Simple Circuit An easy way to light up the kids' eyes! Teach them to wire a simple circuit with our basic components. The knife switches are mounted on a plastic bases. The miniature plastic socket holds a standard flashlight bulb with a 14 mm dia screw...

Me, Me, Me, Me, Mee You can start with our single aluminum tuning fork, 2-tined and 7-1/2" long. It vibrates at 256 hz, and is labeled "C". Or you can order the set that has (8) forks and a mallet with a rubber-tipped plastic...

Classroom and Science Fair alert: Now you can order an 8-pack of metals and metal alloys for demonstration purposes. Each pack of 1" dia x 1/32" thick discs includes aluminum, bronze, brass, copper, n/silver (w/nickel), m/steel (mild: low carbon),...

Give Your Tubes A Rest This blue plastic test-tube rack measures approx 8" long x 2-1/2" wide x 3-1/4" tall with (6) holes for full tubes, the end ones at 1-1/16" / 27mm dia and the others at 3/4" / 19mm. In front of these are (6)...

Fun With Iron Filings Put 'em on a sheet of paper (or glass, or plastic, or any number of things), put a magnet underneath, and watch them do what iron filings do when they meet a magnet. Weird fun coupled with basic physics. Our...

Get Eclipsed: The Complete Guide to the 2 North American Eclipses *Each book also comes packaged with 2 safe solar eclipse glasses! American Paper Optics once again teamed up with noted NASA astrophysicist, Fred Espenak and his eclipse chasing wife Pat...

Nice little teaching magnet set for the primary grade classroom has (6) magnets in star, two-bar, horseshoe and ring shapes, all plastic coated in silver and red to mark the poles. Range in size from 1” to 3”, and include a few paper clips...

Knowledge Is Globular Our compact 4” dia globes have smooth dual axes rotation and measure 5" wide x 6" high overall, including the nice black stand they’re attached to. All show their features in excellent detail. You...

Bone Up On Anatomy You're not going to blow money on an actual human skeleton, are you? Consider that for a tenth of the price you can get an anatomically accurate skeleton done in plastic. This model is male (judging by the hips) and has many...

Lightning Bolts! The next best thing to lightning bolts! 200,000 volts of electrostatic energy created by our Van de Graaff generator. Measures 6-1/2” diameter by 15” tall, includes a spare belt and a set of instructions detailing lots of fun...

…when you crank up this 13-1/4" tall, hand-cranked Wimshurst generator. They were the toast of the 19th Century, and remained the hottest thing around, electrostatically speaking, until Bobby Van de Graaf came along. This one works like a top,...

Same here. Try the Ferrofluid Magnetic Display, a little sealed bottle with virtually fluid nano-particles of ferrous metal suspended in liquid. You’ll get (4) powerful 1/2” dia x 3/16” neodymium disc magnets, (2) of them attached to...

That's what you get with this tesla coil!! Brand new, commercial item, great for classroom demonstrations and experiments. The 50,000 volt capacity generator radiates high frequency energy through space... enough to light fluorescent tubes two feet...

Our 2" square diffraction grating slide has 500 lines per mm resolution and a wavelength chart in a 1-3/8" x 15/16" window. Nice for classroom demonstrations and home-schooling use. Made in the USA.

For Stirring, Not Shaking This mini magnetic stirrer, made from a plastic blend that is chemical-resistant and easy to clean, is for all you lab rats out there who need stuff stirred. Quiet operation and low vibration. Noise level at full speed unloaded...

Double Vision Has the print in your books been getting smaller? Fight back using this 3-1/2" long plastic magnifier with (2) lenses. The 2x lens is 1-3/4" dia., while the 6x lens is 3/4" dia. Kids will love using it to explore bugs, crystals and leaves...

This skeleton is actually used in medical and other schools for teaching. The bones are plastic, but other than that it's as realistic and anatomically correct as they come. The ready-to-use skeleton is mounted with a 360° swivel at the pelvis from a...

Hombro Y Codo Y columna vertebral. Y the bones, fractures and dislocations associated with them. All the text on these 26” x 20” slightly glossy anatomical charts featuring the shoulder, elbow and spinal column is in...

Like those giant floor-standing globes in places like explorers’ clubs, but just under a foot tall. From Replogle Globes, this very nice 6” version honors explorer Sebastian Cabot and is based on the late 17th Century globes of cartographer...