Go Micro-scale in Science!

 Micro-scale, small-scale, or Microscience uses small amounts of chemicals or materials to do experiments.  It first gained popularity in Chemistry; small-scale labs are cheaper and safer.  (A small drop of corrosive chemicals is much less hazardous than a beaker of solution.)  

UNESCO uses Radmaste kits.  They have published a load of YouTube Videos for the kits.   I bought a lot on eBay.  

The Radmaste kits are hard to find.  Look at this similar kit.  Much of the micro-scale equipment consists of reaction plates, toothpicks, syringes, and pipettes.  Often a tea candle can replace a micro-burner.

The UNESCO Primary Microscience has so many great ideas!  Make your own micro-science kit with RSC Apparatus and Techniques; this site has suggested, basic equipment. (Cut a straw to make a tGet more ideas from Flinn.  (Flinn will ship materials to a school or church office and accepts a credit card.) Home Science Tools sells reaction plates.  

One piece of basic equipment is a Petri dish: Painting in a Petri dish, Petri Dish Electrolysis, (similar to Tin Dendrites; incidentally, the MEL Science Kits are micro-scale.), and Candy Chromatography.

Drops on a Penny, Milk Rainbow, or the Color Change experiment use small amounts of chemicals and materials.  Think small!  Can you get the same results with smaller quantities?  The answer is frequently, ‘Yes!’