Suggested Lab Supplies Noncomprehensive list of materials to stock an ESS laboratory. General lab supplies: Dissecting and Compound microscopes Microscope Slides and coverslips Beakers, various sizes Watch glasses Graduated Cylinders, various sizes Digital and Mechanical balances Hot plate Spatulas Pipettes Stirring rods Thermometers Protractors Rulers Graph Paper Student Smart Phones Vinegar Baking Soda Earth’s Surface: Stream table and sand Globes Topographic Map kits Screen Sieve Soil sampler Rocks and Minerals: Microcrystal kits Mineral test kits (hardness, Hydrochloric acid, streak plates, etc) Hand Lenses Mohs’s Scale of hardness Mineral Hand Samples Rock type examples Geologic History: Fossil samples Geologic Time Scales Plate Tectonics: Convection lab materials Fault Blocks Tectonic sandbox Model seismometer Air, Weather, and Climate: Coriolis demonstration device Cloud Apparatus (can be done with 2 liter bottles) Water on Earth: Secchi Disc Porosity/Permeability lab materials Field work: Rock Hammer Hand Lense Bottle of dilute HCl Weatherproof lab notebook Compasses |
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