Lab Kit for BrightThinker Grade 9 Biology

Get the lab materials for doing the labs, activities, and investigations in BrightThinker Science Grade 9 Biology! This BrightThinker science lab kit contains the harder-to-find items you’ll need for the hands-on experiments, including a fetal pig dissection specimen, test tubes and test tube rack, microscope slide, and so much more! Expand the ‘Contents’ tab below for a complete list of included items. Bright Thinker Grade 9 science comes alive with these rigorous, hands-on experiments!

Use our BrightThinker custom designed science lab kit to:

• Define catalyst and enzyme, and explain how they help chemical reactions in living systems. 
• Describe how genes, chromosomes, and DNA are related to each other.
• Classify organisms based on development, reproductions, body symmetry, and methods for obtaining food.
• Understand the factors that cause noninfectious diseases.

With this BrightThinker science lab kit, your student will engage in these hands-on labs, activities, and investigations:

• Test different foods for the presence of biomolecules while using the scientific method.
• Perform three different experiments with eggs, potatoes, and vanilla extract to predict, observe, and record outcomes of osmosis and diffusion.
• Survey different people to see if dominant or recessive traits are more common. 
• Investigate changes in plant growth under certain environmental conditions.

Purchase the BrightThinker Science Grade 9 course separately!

More Information

• Safety Information (SDS)

Items included in the kit:

• 1 Agar, 6g

• 5 Balloon
• 1 Beans, black, pack
• 1 Beans, lima, pack
• 1 Beans, pinto, pack
• 1 Biuret Reagent, 30mL
• 1 Butane lighter
• 2 Candy-coated chocolate candy
• 1 Clover seeds, pack
• 1 Construction paper
• 2 Cup, foam
• 4 Cup, plastic
• 1 Dissection tray, foam
• 1 Dissection tool set
• Forceps
• 6 Dissection pins
• Medicine dropper
• Ruler
• Scalpel
• Dissecting scissors
• 2 Teasing needles
• 1 Dry-erase marker
• 1 Fetal pig, preserved specimen
• 10 Filter paper
• 1 Glucose syrup, 15mL
• 10 Glucose test strips
• 7 Graduated cup
• 2 Graduated cylinder, 25mL
• 1 Gummy bears
• 1 Hair microscope slide
• 1 Half-meterstick
• 1 Heat-resistant gloves
• 1 Inkpad
• 1 Inoculating needle with loop
• 1 Iodine biological stain solution, 30mL
• 1 Lab apron, No 3
• 1 Lens cleaning paper, pack
• 1 Magnifier
• 1 Masking tape
• 1 Methylene Blue, 30mL
• 1 Microscope slide set
• 12 Plain slides
• 2 Concave slides
• 100 Coverslips
• 1 Mineral oil, 30mL
• 1 Nail polish
• 1 Permanent marker
• 20 Petri dish
• 1 pH Paper, pack
• 8 Pipe cleaner, black
• 8 Pipe cleaner, red
• 8 Pipe cleaner, white
• 8 Pipe cleaner, yellow
• 10 Pipet
• 4 Plastic water bottle
• 30 Pop bead, blue
• 30 Pop bead, orange
• 20 Pop bead, Yellow
• 1 Protozoa mix microscope slide
• 1 Safety gloves, size medium
• 1 Safety goggles, size adult
• 1 Scale
• 1 Shrink film
• 1 Simple DNA model kit
• 1 Starch solution, 30g
• 1 Stirring rod
• 1 String
• 7 Sugar packet
• 4 Swab, sterile
• 1 Tape measure
• 6 Test tube
• 1 Test tube rack
• 1 Thermometer
• 1 Watch glass
• 4 Yeast packet

Other items needed:

• Brown paper bag
• Calculator
• Canned beans
• Clear tape
• Colored pencils
• Compound light microscope 
• Corn syrup
• Cornstarch
• Distilled water
• Egg whites
• Fat-free plain yogurt
• Fork
• Fresh apples
• Fresh milk
• Garden soil
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Jelly
• Knife
• Large container
• Light source
• Newspaper
• Paper
• Paper box lid
• Paper towel
• Peanut butter
• Planarian, live culture
• Pond water
• Poster
• Pot
• Potato
• Pretzels
• Raw liver
• Rotting apple
• Rubbing alcohol
• Salt
• Sour Milk
• Spoon
• Stethoscope
• Stopwatch
• Twist ties
• Vanilla extract
• Vegetable oil
• Vinegar
• Zip-close plastic bags
• This course has two optional labs which require the following additional supplies:

• Animal behavior tray 
• Camel-hair brush/small paintbrush
• Hydrochloric acid, 1% 
• Pill bugs, live culture

• Aluminum foil
• Escherichia coli, live culture
• Incubator
• Index card
• Plastic wrap
• UV protective cardboard box
• UVC compact bulb

Additional information from Home Science Tools:

1. The products in this kit are intended for parent/teacher use to complete curriculum lab activities with students.
2. Some items are not designed for or intended primarily for children ages 12 and under.
3. Some materials and many chemicals we provide are dangerous and may be harmful if misused. With your purchase, you are assuming all responsibility for any injuries or damages resulting from the storage, use, and disposal of all materials and chemicals.
4. Some products may differ from the web image (such as clay, food coloring, etc.)
5. While our kits conveniently contain most of the items you'll need to complete the labs, they do not include some common household items or more expensive items like microscopes and live cultures.

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