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Make science fun for kids with a Scientific Explorer® Veterinary Science Kit.

As a young child and well into my high school years, science was always my favorite school subject. I was never really into fiction books, but I always loved selecting non-fiction books from the library or bookstore and researching all different sorts of topics, like rocks and minerals, tropical fish, and seashells. When it was my birthday or I received a present for earning good grades, it would be a science experiment kit, a new fish for my aquarium, or a microscope with slides. I enjoy sharing my love of science with my children and now my third grade students, as I am a classroom teacher.

I received a Scientific Explorer® Veterinary Science Kit in the mail. This kit contains six different mini science projects that are great for elementary kids! I took a few of the ideas to try outdoors with my children in our backyard, but I also brought a few into my classroom to see if they would be good for my students.

The Scientific Explorer® Veterinary Science Kit focuses on six different animal science “experiments”. For years now, Lydia has said she wants to be a veterinarian as an adult, so this was a great way to really test her skills. In our backyard, we started out by making jelly ticks. To make this science project, the kids combined a gelatin powder with warm water and poured it into a mold. I liked that this can be completed independently or in pairs. Bryce and Lydia worked well together, taking turns to follow the directions.

While the kit targeted science, it also allowed the kids to work on a variety of other skills, like fine motor abilities, critical thinking, imaginative play, reading comprehension, and social skills. This portion of the veterinarian kit taught them to use their fine motor skills to sew in a similar way to how doctors suture a patient {in this case, someone’s pet}. For other fun scientific experiments, equipment such as fluorescence cuvettes may be necessary. 

They also used their visual skills to look through a colored film to see inside a cat and a dog, similar to an X-ray. They even learned about anatomy when they assembled the different layers of a cat’s insides. While the materials are fun and innovative, they also present children with an accurate insight into anatomy and physiology.

 

 

Click here or head to your local Walmart to purchase the Scientific Explorer® Veterinary Science Kit to make science fun for kids!

Because there are six different projects, we decided to save one for later. This final project taught the kids how to make a dog out of plaster with a simple mold. They then have gauze to make a cast for one of the dog’s limbs. Since Lydia was a toddler, she’s been wrapping washcloths and other rags around stuffed animals and baby dolls when she plays doctor, so I love how this kit included both the mold to make a dog and the gauze to demonstrate where the dog was injured and treated.

This is such a fun way for parents and educators to provide their children with engaging, hands-on learning experiences through interactive experiments and activities. With the Scientific Explorer® Veterinary Science Kit, children learn what it takes to become a veterinarian.  They simulate X-rays and Sonograms, close-up wounds and cuts with the soft plastic suture training kit, mold jelly ticks and learn which cause illness, and even make casts for broken bones with a plaster mold dog kit. ***Not For Children Under 3 Years. Recommended For Ages 6 And Up.

Do your children enjoy science? Head here or to Walmart, where you can purchase the Scientific Explorer® Veterinary Science Kit to make science fun for kids!