Creation Sensation

GOOD NEWS...
As many of you already know, Creation Sensation's science kit production (for Apologia books) was temporarily shut down in early February 2009 because of the uncertainty of how a new law, CPSIA, (the lead-testing law) would apply to our supply kits. Thankfully, during the intervening months since, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has provided further clarification of the law. This clarification has lead our legal counsel to advise that it is time to introduce new, Creation Sensation Kits to the educational community. We have always known that our kits were perfectly safe to be used under the supervision of a teacher/parent. But we have taken this opportunity to go over every item in each kit and reconsider any safety issues that might concern a parent and make any changes we feel are necessary, However, since the latest revision of CPSC's recommended implementation of the law says that "Certain educational materials, such as chemistry sets " are exempt from the expensive testing that is required of many other products used by children, the Creation Sensation kits have not been tested for lead levels. We trust that a parent or teacher will safely supervise the use of these educational materials.

Over the years, we have taken care to listen to the helpful suggestions that our customers have offered, and with the introduction of the new kits, have made some wonderful changes to our kits which will make your job as educator much easier!

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THE NEW KITS?
The redesigned kits are now organized by lesson. You will be able to quickly locate what you need because each lesson is sorted into its own bag. (Of course, some items don't quite fit into a sack, so a few things will be packed separately.) The items that are reused from lesson to lesson are in a bag of their own, so you can easily keep up with them and have them handy for the next lesson.

Also, we have added 2nd Student Kits for families that have several students completing the course at the same time. The 2nd Student Kit allows the siblings of a family to share many items already included in the basic family kit, but provides "extra" for a second student. For example, in the astronomy kit, extra plaster is provided so a Venus landscape can be created when your family studies the planet Venus. For an additional charge, you can add a 2nd Student Kit for each additional sibling in the family. The 2nd Student Kits are designed for a family setting and will not work with groups larger than 4 or 5 students. For groups of 6 or more students, we have a wonderful alternative - a Co-op Kit!

Co-ops are all the rage in homeschool circles and Creation Sensation is excited to see so many different groups centering their science co-ops around Apologia texts. We want to make it as easy as possible for the leaders of the co-op to find the supplies they need to make the projects successful, so we have designed a co-op kit with that leader in mind. And now, all co-op kits can be custom built to the number of students in the co-op. (To be precise, they can be built to an even number of students since many projects are done in teams of two students.) Co-op kits include lots of extras too, like posters and animal replicas. The projected cost of co-op supplies for this summer is $33 -$35 per student.