Science for all

In the last 3 months we have delivered 3,200 science kits to schools, which equates to 235,000 experiments completed by 5-12 year old students across New Zealand.

Our shared community library model means the resource kits are used by many different schools, with a kit staying in a classroom for two weeks at a time.

Hundreds of volunteers replenish consumables and distribute the kits to their local schools each fortnight. It truly is a community effort, and one that teachers love. Here is some recent feedback from one of those teachers:

“A great kit. The classes all loved looking at the skeletons and the pictures of Jack that you could put on the window. The junior classes liked putting the x-ray together like a jigsaw on the mat so they could see the whole skeleton. Everyone completed the chicken bone experiment with great predicting, observing and explaining: students were the experts telling their teacher what was going to happen and why.”

Our kit development team have been busy writing a new topic to add to the library: Forest Health. This has received fantastic feedback from the first few schools that used it.

• teacher feedback on new Forest Health kit (PDF)
  

The last 3 months have been some of our busiest to date. We delivered 3,500 science kits to schools, which equates to 250,000 experiments completed by 5-12 year old students across New Zealand.

Our shared community library model means the resource kits are used by many different schools, with a kit staying in a classroom for two weeks at a time.

Hundreds of volunteers replenish consumables and distribute the kits to their local schools each fortnight. It truly is a community effort, and one that teachers love. Here is some recent feedback from one of those teachers:

“What a fantastic kit - so well organised that I could just pick it up and use it. The students loved the hands on exploding volcanoes and also the puzzle globes, We had a blast and lots of learning was done. Thanks house of Science!”