Introducing Hands-on@Home

Lab-Aids is known for providing organized, innovative investigations for science classrooms. Now, select activities from our middle school program, Issues and Science, Designed for the NGSS, have been neatly packaged for students to use at home. Hands-on@Home provides safe, engaging activities away from the screen. 

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Do science... at home!


Starting with our most popular middle school program, Issues and Science: Redesigned for the NGSS, Lab-Aids has combed each unit to find activities well suited for the home environment. To meet our requirements, the activity must: 

  • provide an additional benefit to the learning, not just doing for the sake of doing
  • be designed for one student, rather than a group
  • provide all materials needed to perform the task
  • meet more stringent safety guidelines than even that of the classroom
  • assume materials won't return to the school site
  • maintain a reasonable cost
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Individually packaged


To avoid placing further burden on educators, we've done all the sorting and packaging in advance. Each material set includes all the activities listed in either Basic or Deluxe, all in one package. Clearly labeled with unit information, material lists, and images to help students identify the components, each package is designed for easy distribution from school sites to students.

In a distanced classroom, individualized packaging also allows investigations to take place without sharing materials and reduces the cleaning burden between each class.

Hands-on@home Material Sets*

Biomedical Engineering
Basic only

Body Systems
Basic | Deluxe

Chemical Reactions
Basic | Deluxe

Chemistry of Materials
Basic | Deluxe

Earth's Resources
Basic | Deluxe

Ecology
Basic only

Energy
Basic | Deluxe

Evolution
Deluxe Only

Fields and Interactions
Basic | Deluxe

Force and Motion
Basic | Deluxe

From Cells to Organisms
Basic only

Geological Processes
Basic only

Land, Water, and Human Interactions
Basic | Deluxe

Reproduction
Basic | Deluxe

Solar System and Beyond
Basic | Deluxe

Waves
Basic | Deluxe

Weather and Climate
Basic | Deluxe

*Minimum total purchase of 24 Materials Sets required. Mix and match from any of the 17 units.

More Remote Learning Supports

No need to sacrifice longterm curriculum goals for short term solutions 

Hands-on science promotes equity

Issues and Science 6-8 | NGSS

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