Silicon Valley High School Biology Lab kit

Laboratory experiments can be a challenge for teachers in schools or home schools. This manual and the accompanying kit are an effort to help solve this problem. These hands-on laboratory exercises have been designed with two principle goals in mind: 1) educational challenge and 2) convenience for the teacher. Every experiment is written to clearly teach a scientific concept.  The equipment is chosen to produce a kit that is affordable, compact, and durable. The kit is only intended for the laboratory portion of the course.

The Labs
1. Using a Microscope
2. Cell Lab: Selectively Permeable Membrane
3. Cell Lab: Plant and Animal Cells
4. Observing Chloroplasts
5. Photosynthesis
6. Mitosis
7. DNA Model Lab
8. Mutation Lab
9. DNA Extraction
10. DNA Fingerprinting
11. Classification
12. Forms of Bacteria
13. Protist Lab
14. Fungi Lab
15. Monocot and Dicot Root Leaf and Stem
16. Plant Leaves
17. Parts of a Flower
18. Bone Comparison
19. Ecology
20. Muscle Cell Lab
21. Lung Capacity
22. Calories to Burn
23. Blood Cells
24. Memory

Contents of the kit
Equipment :
Bag of seeds
Balloons
Beaker, 150 mL
Beaker, 30 mL
Blank slides
Bromothymol blue
Concave slide
Cotton swabs
Coverslips
Dialysis tubing
Gloves, vinyl
Goggles
Graduated pipet
Iodine stain
Lens paper
Magnifying glass
Methylene blue stain
Pencil
Red food coloring
Rubber bands
Starch
Test tubes, 6 x 50 mm
Thermometer
Toothpicks
Vials, 25 mL, with caps
Wood splints
Yeast
Prepared slides:
Euglena
Horse ascaris
Human blood
Mixed bacteria
Monocot and dicot stem
Muscle cell
Onion root tip
Paramecium
Dissection kit:
Dissecting needle, bent
Eyedropper
Forceps/tweezers
Probe
Ruler
Scalpel, small narrow
Scissors
T pins