PLEASE READ THIS FIRST . . .
Welcome to the new Creation Sensation website!   Apologia Users - Please read this information before moving on to the rest of the website.  Our apologies for the fact that most of it is still under construction. Please be patient!  New features will be added each week.  This week we are focusing on building Apologia Botany Kits.    If you would like to purchase an Astronomy kit, a  Zoology 2 kit,  or a Zoology 3 kit you may order now.  All three are in stock with immediate shipping. For details about the new kits read below.  The production of Zoology 1, General Science, and Physical Science will start after we take a brief July 4th holiday.  We are expecting to be shipping all kits by August 1st, just in time for everyone to get their supplies before school starts

GOOD NEWS...
As many of you already know, Creation Sensation's science kit production (for Apologia books) has been shut down since early February 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 we stopped production, 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 reintroduce Creation Sensation Kits to the educational community.  The latest revision 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.  

We have always known that our kits were perfectly safe fo be used under the supervision of a teacher/parent.  But we have taken this lapse in production 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.   We have also made some of the changes that you have asked for over the years.  

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.

 

DADDYTIME is a new feature that will be added to the Deluxe Family Kits.   A full explanation of DADDYTIME is forthcoming, but as a quick explanation, DADDYTIME will provide suggestions for ways a father (or grandfather, uncle, etc.) can join in the topic of study by the addition of fun family games and activities that teach spiritual truths from the spiritual head of the family.

 

So, what do all these kits cost?  And when will they be available?  The prices of the kits are still being determined with a slight increase in price expected.  New prices have been posted for Astronomy, Zoology 2 and Zoology 3   Since we have been "shut down" for several months, it is taking a little longer to build this first group of kits.  We have to contact all of our suppliers for updated pricing of things like plaster, and cotton balls, and scissors.  But, with God's help, we are working through each kit in turn to put it back in production.    When the new Anatomy book is released early in the fall, we will have a kit for that too.  (Shhhh. . . don't tell any one, but I've had a chance to test out some of the projects in the new book and they are going to be fun, fun, fun!!  )