List Resources by Cost

The cost categories below indicate what it would cost to purchase the materials reviewed for use with a group of approximately 25 students.

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$40 Or Less
1.	Astrobiology: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool Astrobiology is a highly engaging eight-part set of activities created by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and NASA. ... Price Details:
2.	Bottle Biology: The TerraAqua Column Bottle Biology's year's worth of activities, designed to be built and carried out inside 2 liter soda bottles, use easy-to-find ... Price Details: The kit and materials sell for less than $30
3.	Bubble Festival In this Bubble Festival set of eight core (and four extension) activities the unmistakable focus is on “fun” as a vehicle to ... Price Details:
4.	Camp and Club Science Sourcebook: Activities and Leader Planning Guide for Science Outside School An easy to read and content rich book filled with information to assist in every step of the process of establishing and ... Price Details:
5.	Environmental Detectives For an afterschool program with consistent attendance and enough class time each week, Environmental Detectives will teach ... Price Details: The instructors guide for Environmental Detectives sells for $25.50
6.	Exploratorium Afterschool Activities San Francisco's Exploratorium museum has accumulated much recognition since its creation in 1969. Its niche is to bolster science ... Price Details: The guide is free, and each activity costs $40 or less for necessary materials.
7.	Family Math Designed to foster a home-school connection, Family Math involves students in activities that are cross-disciplinary and creative ... Price Details: Several Family Math activity books are available. Activity books cost approximately $20
8.	Family Science Family Science facilitates cooperative, hands-on activities and discussions that give students a chance to interact with science ... Price Details: The guide sells for $23.95
9.	Garden Mosaics Designed for use with kids in middle school and above, Garden Mosaics is well designed for afterschool programs located near ... Price Details:
10.	GEMS Paper Towel Testing This unit is part of the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) set of informal science instructional guides. Like the ... Price Details:
11.	Math and Science Across Cultures, from the Exploratorium By teaching through the lenses of different cultures, this book makes math and science relevant to students of all backgrounds. ... Price Details: The guide sells for $20
12.	Science is Cool This guide was designed to support educators as they strive to develop an afterschool science program. Offering a positive ... Price Details: less than $40 for the guidebook, (a kit with all materials is available for $650)
13.	Science Sensors Activity Kit: Tune Up These activities use tuning forks to teach kids (and adults) about the relationship between vibration, energy, and waves. ... Price Details: $23.80 for a kit for use with about 5 kids; $86.50 for class-sized kit
14.	Square Wheels and Other Easy-To-Build, Hands-on Science Activities Square Wheels is a guide to constructing and understanding new and classic science demonstrations, using easy-to-get supplies. ... Price Details: This guide sells for less than $40
15.	The Brain Explorer—Puzzles, Riddles, Illusions, and other Mental Adventures Using just pencil and paper, these 'mental adventures' present puzzles and exercises designed to expand memory, perception, and ... Price Details: This guide sells for less than $20.00
16.	The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure—Activities for the Elementary Classroom Students use simple building materials to learn big ideas in physics in this program that stresses exploration and links ... Price Details: This guide sells for less than $40
17.	The Science Explorer —Family Science Experiments from the World's Favorite Hands-On Museum Designed for use by parents and young children, this book has been extensively tested to make it easy to use and highly ... Price Details: $12.95 for the book, the cost of materials varies
18.	Wonderwise: Women in Science Learning Series Wonderwise provides a great motivational boost for kids (especially girls) who might harbor doubts that they could, someday, ... Price Details:
$41-$75
19.	After-School Science PLUS —Activity Guide and Planning Guide With features like bilingual materials and biographies of diverse scientists, this program builds the science skills of girls and ... Price Details: Afterschool Science PLUS Planning Guide and Activity Guide package - $49.95 Also available separately (Planning Guide $24.95; Activity Guide $29.95). Bulk orders of Activity Guide (5 or more) $22.00 each;
$76-$100
20.	4-H Wildlife Stewards 4-H Wildlife Stewards develops students' scientific perspectives through interaction with the natural world. The program is a ... Price Details: Training is $89 plus accommodations and travel to the campus of Oregon State University
21.	Science Court Explorations - Tom Snyder Productions (Scholastic) Science Court Explorations: Pendulum: In this curriculum, which combines a multimedia CD-ROM with hands-on activities, students ... Price Details: The cost for a license to use the materials in one computer is $89; for $450 a license to use this on 10 computers is available. However, an afterschool program may need only one copy of the CD-ROM (that permits the instructor to project the videos). Individual students do not necessarily need to be at computers.
22.	Science Sensors Activity Kit: Hot or Not This well-designed set of experiments lets kids 'see' changes in temperature through the use of liquid crystal thermometers. ... Price Details: $23.80 for a kit; $86.50 for class-sized kit
23.	The Private Eye®: (5X) Looking/Thinking by Analogy Private Eye encourages students and teachers to work side-by-side as they investigate the world with a jeweler's loupe. Students ... Price Details: The teacher's guide costs $24.95 and the loupes cost approximately $2.85 per student. Loupes are available in a variety of sets.
24.	The Youth Experiences in Science Project (YES) from 4-H The YES binder includes a series of activities that are interesting and offer younger students a chance to experiment with ... Price Details:
Free
25.	21st Century Afterschool Project (CASP) Though developed for New Jersey afterschool providers, and aligned to the NJ science-and-technology standards' core curriculum, ... Price Details: Free
26.	Celebrate Urban Birds/Project Pigeon Watch At the Celebrate Urban Birds website at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, you will find a flexible set of materials, ... Price Details: Celebrate Urban Birds materials are available free online
27.	Design and Discovery Intel and the Girl Scouts of America have teamed up to develop Design and Discovery, a program that endeavors to appeal to middle ... Price Details:
28.	DragonflyTV DragonflyTV is a science education program produced by Twin Cities Public Television for children aged 9-12. It is both a ... Price Details: free, except for duplication; materials
29.	Fetch! This PBS Go Kids! broadcast/website package is an effort to "break the mold" for science shows appropriate for 6 to 10-year-olds. ... Price Details: Free
30.	Field Trip to the Moon As you'd expect, this collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History and NASA includes great content. A user can ... Price Details: DVD and educator resources are free.  The Planetarium show is $5.00 per student for New York City (NYC) schools and $12.00 per student (includes Museum admission) per student for outside NYC schools.
31.	Kinetic City Kinetic City: Mission to Vearth: Kinetic City provides an interesting and coherent set of science activities structured within ... Price Details: The materials are available free of cost, online
32.	NASA Educators Guides This web-based set of educator's guides varies widely in style and quality. The guides masterfully incorporate exposure to the ... Price Details: NASA guides for hundreds of similar activities are available free online or in printed versions for approximately $15 per subject.
33.	ZOOMsci Designed to support instructors implementing the (150) science experiments presented on the PBS youth-run, hands-on television ... Price Details:
More Than $100
34.	Afterschool Explorations in Science (AXIS) This workbook-supported set of materials designed for use after school covers six themes, is available in English and Spanish, ... Price Details:
35.	Afterschool Universe Reviewers agree that "Afterschool Universe" takes a serious and cosmically complex field of science and explores it in ... Price Details:
36.	APEX Science These materials include activities that give students the chance to explore eight separate topics through (at least) four ... Price Details: $1200 for a set of 8 activities. Cost of locally available consumables not included. Placards should last indefinitely but some materials will need to be replenished with each use.
37.	Astrobiology: Afterschool Life in the Universe TERC, a Boston educational developer renown for science, math and technology curricula and research has created this rich ... Price Details: Guidebook can be downloaded from website (kit with materials can be purchased for $600 per class of 30)
38.	Build IT Build IT engages girls in the fields of science and information technology (IT) in order to develop their IT fluency and interest ... Price Details: Build IT is still in the final stages of piloting and development, so the cost estimates are not final. That said, Build IT units can be done individually or as a series. There are six units designed to cover two school years and two 2 week summer sessions. One unit for 30 girls includes: materials at approximately $375; Family Tech Night supplies (includes food and preparation materials) at approximately $250 and an unspecified cost for van transportation for field trips.
39.	Camp in a Can Insect Adventures Camp in a Can provides a pre-packaged kit with materials, activity and instructors guides and a DVD (with comprehensive ... Price Details: The cost is $180 for up to 12 participants
40.	Club Invention This research-based curriculum immerses groups of students in a series of realistic problem-solving scenarios in which they must ... Price Details: Club Invention includes six modules. An afterschool program may choose to complete all or some of them. The program's developers estimate that an afterschool program will typically choose to complete four in a year. The kits include all that is needed plus a video for instructors, lesson guides, and are priced at $69 per student. The modules are designed to be used with 15 to 22 students (at a cost of $1,035 to $1,518). Manuals, background information, and videos must be returned after the kit is used. If an organization or school district implements the program on a large scale (6 or more instructors), the developer suggests working with a trainer who offers onsite training and support to the instructors. Typically, a large-scale implementation is funded by a foundation or sponsoring school district.
41.	Design It! Engineering in After School Programs Design It! is a field-tested, engineering-focused afterschool curriculum in which students build simple models of familiar ... Price Details: Individual project parts are available at various prices, but for $139.95 you can purchase a complete set of 14 projects (Balls and Tracks, Pinball, Trebuchets, Gliders, Paper Bridges, Rubber Band-Powered Cars, Balloon Powered-Cars, Cardboard Constructions, Cranes, Blinking Lights, String Telephones, Straw Rockets, Spinning Toys, Sand and Water Clocks), and an Implementation Guide + FREE binder.
42.	EarthBox The EarthBox materials are available with several options, but the basic product is a kit with a self-contained growing system ... Price Details: (includes all shipping, handling of materials needed to create EarthBox gardens that serve up to 25 kids and include standards based lesson plans) Middle school kits are $325 for 2 EarthBox Ready to Grow kits and 35 lesson plans. PreK-1st grade kits are $105 for 1 EarthBox Ready to Grow kit and 5 activities. Elementary kits are $160 for 1 EarthBox Ready to Grow kit and 17 Standards-based lesson plans. High School kits are $325 for 3 EarthBox Ready to Grow kits and 12 standards-based lab experiments. The Earthbox Garden Package costs $420 and includes 6 EarthBox Ready to Grow kits, a Youth Garden Guide, and 17 activities.
43.	Explore It! Science Investigations in Out-of-School Programs Explore It! was developed by the Education Development Center with funding from the National Science Foundation. It is highly ... Price Details: Individual project parts are available at various prices.
44.	Family ASTRO Students become scientists with these kits' innovative, conceptual activities that teach astronomy without the factoids or ... Price Details: $39-$49 for the Educator Leader Kits and $13-$20 for the Family Take-Home Activities
45.	Mindstorms for Schools (LEGO) Using Mindstorms for Schools, one of the only programs of its kind for classroom use, student groups use computers to program ... Price Details: $1,000 to $1,250 for a class set; access to computers is necessary
46.	Mission Discovery Mission Discovery's horticulture unit is a traditional discussion-and-lab curriculum that aims to kindle interest in an ... Price Details: This program is a national model that is supported by grant and private funds to serve a community in the Pittsburgh, PA area. Those interested in the program should follow up with the contacts listed on the program website
47.	Operation SMART Girls Inc.'s Operation SMART is a set of activities and staff training guides developed to help afterschool programs empower ... Price Details: Operation Smart materials are available free of cost to affiliates of Girls Inc. Affiliates receive one copy of all publications and can purchase additional copies for $12.50 each. Outside groups interested in establishing a formal collaboration agreement with an affiliate may also be able to use Operation Smart materials.
48.	PCS Edventures (Academy of Robotics reviewed, multiple kits offered) PCS Edventures has developed after-school learning labs for students in grades preK-12 that combine a variety of hands-on ... Price Details: The cost varies, but use of a kit for a group of 20 would require a minimum initial investment of $1,000.
49.	Secondary Robotics Initiative Agents for Change: The Secondary Robotics Initiative: This alternative to LEGO's Mindstorms curriculum uses LEGO materials to ... Price Details: This guide and set of materials is designed to be used with Lego Mindstorms kits, which cost $200 for each group of 4 students
50.	Strive to Thrive Activity Handbooks This review is for the series of five booklets noted below. Individually, they sell for around $10. These materials are great ... Price Details:
51.	Sunflower/Girasol Sunflower/Girasol is a set of activity-based bilingual (Spanish/English) materials that focus on students in grades two to five. ... Price Details:
52.	Techbridge Techbridge offers science, engineering, and technology, as well as mentorship, involving girls in hands-on scientific exploration ... Price Details: Potential users must pay for training costs for instructors and for materials and supplies