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We recommend you keep your dissection specimens in a cool and dark place (away from direct sunlight). This can be a closet, cabinet or anywhere else that does not get warmer than room temperature. Also keep them out of reach of children and pets. They DO NOT need to be refrigerated!

You will need to contact your bookstore and abide by their return policy. If they will refund your account/money, then you will need to contact eScience Labs and obtain a Return Authorization Merchandise Form and then ship the kit back to our warehouse. Once we receive and process the return (may take up to 2 weeks), we will notify the bookstore so they can work on the refund.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer a refund in this case. We suggest donating the kit contents to a local school that could use the extra materials. Or, if you would like, feel free to work on the labs at your own pace!*Any kit that is returned without authorization from eScience Labs or your bookstore will not be eligible for a refund! Please make sure you arrange for the return before doing so, or you will have to pay to have the kit shipped back out to you.

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The directions for each lab assigned to you will be found either on our student portal or through your course website. To access the student portal, first log in to your account at www.esciencelabs.com. Once logged in, select the Student tab and scroll down to select the link under Kit Resources. To access your course website, please follow the instructions provided to you from your instructor.

For most schools we work with, instructors will be using a Learning Management system or course website (Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle, Desire 2 Learn, Canvas, etc.). Your instructor will have each lab available in interactive form, so that you can complete your lab work and submit it to them. If you are not on an LMS, or do not have a course website, please contact your instructor to see how he/she will require you to submit your lab work.

I would like to know if anyone can recommend a lab kit, with an answer key, for a calculus-based physics course. I am using the textbook, Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Cengage), 10th Edition, by Serway & Jewett and would like a lab kit (with an answer key) to complement the studies.

I was hoping that regentrude would visit this forum and see your thread. She teaches Calculus based Physics in a university in the Midwest. Possibly she can suggest Lab Kits for you. You might sent her a PM.

They typically supply community collegesand private schools so there is quite a bit of hoop to jump through as a homeschooler. the lab kits are not cheap but come with everything the student needs for the lab.
The one big con is that the set up is all online and you can not change the order of the labs. You have to complete one before the next one will open.

Thank you for your suggestion. However, they are the reason why I am on this forum asking for help. They are under Science Interactive, which is the parent company of HOL Science and eScience Labs( -category/physics). Unfortunately, they told me to look somewhere else because at this time, they are not working with homeschoolers.

QSL and Home Scientist (who doesn't do physics kits), seem to be the only ones who will work with homeschoolers for kits right now. Otherwise it's pieces and parts from Home Science Tools, but they don't have much in the way of lab manual, even for their one-off kits. It's really a missed opportunity.

OP, am I understanding you correctly, you are looking for an Escience lab kit? If so, have you looked on Ebay? Often times I see used kits/unused kits on there. The complicating factor is I think the naming has something to do with the college that hosts the course in question. So you aren't going to be able to be super specific on the name of the kit. I got some hits using "escience lab physics" _from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=escience+lab+physics&_sacat=0

I used Quality Science Labs (QSL) for my daughter's 9th Grade Biology, 10th Grade Chemistry, and 11th Grade Algebra-Based Physics. However, QSL never created a kit geared towards Calculus-Based Physics.

I'll do any kit that my daughter can use for Calculus-Based Physics. The issue is that I am very "weak" when it comes to sciences, especially physics. Therefore, I need something with an Answer Key. Previously, I put together my own lab and manual for Calculus-Based Physics; nevertheless, my oldest daughter (who is now a junior in college) advised me to make this course better for her younger sister because the lab I previously attempted to create was limited.

I am sorry to hear that Don. If you are on the homeschool to college group you can look up a gentleman who is a professor at UC Santa Clara. Or look up gas station without pumps. He designed a high level physics course with labs for his son.

When my DD was a TTUISD student, we bought a number of Lab Kits, and some other things (eBooks, etc.) , from MBS Direct, which was the "official" book store for TTUISD (TTUISD now has a newer name which is TTU K-12). MBS Direct is located in Columbia MO.

I cannot remember the name of the company that made those Lab Kits. There were two (2) Lab Kits for the TTUISD High School Physics course. I suspect that the contents were selected by TTUISD, but I try not to assume. That was before my DD had Calc, but regentrude wrote that you can use any Lab Kit... ?

Whether or not they will sell directly to a Home Schooler I don't know, but their toll free phone number, email and chat are on this URL, so it will be very easy for you to contact them and see if they can help you out. Here's the URL:

OT: Recently (early August 2020) DD needed the 9th edition of the Astronomy textbook, which at that time was incredibly expensive ($353 USD, Used). DD sent an email to the professor and he said she could use the 8th or 7th edition. I searched on BookFinder and bought the 7th edition for $5.90 USD, including Shipping and NC tax and they shipped it in a cardboard box. That was from a company with a different name, on eBay, but it was MBS Direct...

In response to your question regarding Answer Keys: I needed to compare the outcome of the experiment, which should lead to similar outcomes to the original. In other words, as you know, one of the advantages of scientific experiments is that if all the steps are closely followed, then the research will yield to the same results. Therefore, the Answer Key will serve as an asset to verify reliability.

I can answer about the answer key as we did the QSL kit (which is only algebra based physics so it's not what the OP asked for, but it is a very comprehensive kit). I would say about half of the lab questions were background information tied to the lab or were questions about how to do the calculations (which formula would apply to what and how, etc.), so those answers were just straight up. Then they had sample data which was clearly marked as just a sample and did the calculations based on that. I would have personally found it invaluable to have the work for the calculations fully shown because while most of the time, we did fine with it, there were times when I really wanted to see more than the final answer for the calculations as we did something wrong when we used the sample data (and thus our data too) to try and get the answer. So as someone who doesn't know physics at all, the answer key was useful in some ways and really not in others.