Materials List

Materials List

1. Anacharis / Elodea water plants (available from pet stores)

2. arts and crafts materials (I always keep on hand)

3. pipe cleaners

4. popsicle sticks

5. water-based acrylic paint

6. construction paper

7. clay

8. styrofoam

9. white glue/rubber cement/glue sticks --beads

10. balances

11. cameras (35mm, underwater disposables, video)

12. colored pencils

13. dissection equipment (pans, scissors, scalpels, teasing needles, pins)

14. dissection guides

15. dissection specimens (I recommend Nasco)

16. field guides

17. graduated cylinders (10ml, 25ml, 100ml, 500ml)

18. heating equipment (Bunsen burners, ring stand, heating gauze, evaporating dishes)

19. hydrometers (available from pet stores or supply company)

20. laminated activity instructions (for field trip use)

22. limewater (calcium hydroxide)

23. markers (variety of colors)

24. methylene blue

25. Nikson bottles (Nasco)

26. preserved display specimens

27. reel tapes (50m ideal)

28. rulers (clear and metric)

29. salt water aquaria (I don’t have them, but they would be neat to have!)

30. scissors (get a bucket of ‘em!)

31. sea salt (available from pet stores)

32. Secchi disk (Ben Meadows Company)

33. shovels (hand trowels)

34. sieves (get a selection of different mesh sizes)

35. snorkeling equipment

36. socks (for white board erasers)

37. specimen collection (shells, bones, sea stars, etc.)

38. stopwatches

39. thermometers

40. tidal calendar for Gulf of California (available from U of A press)

41. wash bottles

42. water analysis kit (pool store and Nasco)

43. weight belts

44. white boards (buy in sheets from Home Depot and cut into smaller sizes)

45. white board markers

The University of Arizona
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
General Biology Program for Secondary Teachers
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