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Greek Vase Scratch Art Lesson

Combine scratch art with ancient history in this colorful art lesson that teaches students about lines and patterns.

Frank Stella-Inspired Art Lesson

Explore art with angles and arches, modeled after Frank Stella's Protractor Series, in this engaging collage art lesson for grades 4–6.

PanPastel® Instruction Book and Starter Kit

PanPastels are professional-quality, light-fast soft pastels packed in a unique cake-like format. Use them to blend and apply pastel color like paint — no solvents or water needed!

Adaptive art tools from The Kind Mind, available at Nasco Education

Check out these adaptive art tools that help students with special needs to engage in art and writing activities with greater ease and independence.

Nasco Washable Liquid Watercolors – Glitter

These affordable Washable Glitter Liquid Watercolors add sparkle to any watercolor project and are perfect for mixing and blending.

Art lesson: Paper chain pixel art

In this lesson, students plan and design a visually appealing pixel pattern and relate their artwork to their lives and/or culture.

Art lesson: Wet felting an owl

Use this step-by-step lesson to teach your art students wet felting techniques as they create owls with wool roving.

LUCY™ Flex Drawing Tool

The LUCY Flex works just like a classic camera lucida, reflecting images onto any surface. It will boost your students’ confidence levels by allowing them to quickly create realistic drawings. The LUCY Flex works with any medium and offers a large, adjustable image up to 19 in. x 27 in. Its large, flexible neck and versatility allows your […]

XR Clinic Mobile Virtual Reality Patient Simulator

Transform your classroom into a clinic on a budget with the XR Clinic VR Patient Simulator. The immersive mobile version comes with a VR headset and controllers!

XR Clinic Desktop Virtual Reality Patient Simulator

Transform your classroom into a clinic on a budget with the XR Clinic VR Patient Simulator. The budget-friendly desktop version allows students to work in any size space.

Yasutomo® Origami Painted Paper Sets

Each sheet makes a beautiful medium for origami, paper crafts, scrapbooking, collages, and whatever else your students dream up.

DecoArt Wax Effects: Get encaustic-like results the easy way

Use this translucent layering acrylic to create depth, embed objects, and more. Like traditional encaustic without the heat or expense!

Grafix Plastic Films

Decorate the crystal clear surface with permanent markers, rub-ons, glitter, rubber stamps, and more. Acid free and archival.

Cuisinart Meat Grinder Attachment

Cuisinart Pasta Roller

Cuisinart 13-Cup Food Processor

Cuisinart 8-Cup Food Processor

Cuisinart Frozen Yogurt/Ice Cream Maker

Cuisinart Food Processor

Cuisinart Blender

Show Charles’s law with this can-crushing experiment

How does temperature affect the volume of a gas? Grab a soda can, heat source, ice water, and safety supplies to perform this simple experiment, and give your students a powerful demonstration of Charles’s law!

Reuse this nondrying modeling clay over and over

Pepy Plastilina is a premium nondrying modeling clay perfect for building models and creating stop-motion animations.

Practice plating and garnishing with utensils from Mercer Culinary

Plating is a key skill for any students interested in a culinary career. Help them get started with professional-quality tools.

Quick chemistry: Grow your own crystals!

Create crystals in the classroom! Try these fun and simple experiments to create a variety of crystals and explore chemical reactions.

Free art diversity activity: Skin tone mixing guide

Get students thinking about diversity as they mix a variety of skin tones using this guide. They’ll learn how adding different amounts of color affects the results and find the combination for their custom skin color.

Quick and easy science experiment: DIY lava lamp!

Ready to get groovy? With this fun and simple experiment, you and your students can create your own lava lamps and learn about density.

Quick chemistry: Mix your own fizzy soda pop!

Are your students thirsty for knowledge? Try this fun and simple experiment to create your own color-changing soda and explore chemical reactions.

Medium Minute: Multicultural Art Supply Enhancement Pack

Ready to go beyond the basics with your school's art supplies? This Medium Minute explores a convenient pack loaded with supplies that allow students to create projects that show a multicultural world.

Medium Minute: Neon Art Supply Enhancement Pack

Ready to go beyond the basics with your school's art supplies? This convenient pack includes a variety of supplies that will supplement and enhance the materials you have to offer students.

Quick chemistry: Say hello to instant snow!

Want to play in the snow without freezing outside? Try this fun and simple experiment! Just add water to some instant snow powder and watch it grow!

Quick chemistry: Make your own elephant toothpaste!

Looking to get a positive reaction in your next science or STEM class? Try this fun and simple experiment! All you need is 3% hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, yeast, warm water, and a bottle.

Intro to neurographic art

Teach your students the basic algorithm of neurographic art and then give them the chance to take it in their own creative direction.

Unboxing the Mercer 13-Piece Cutlery Set

See everything inside one of the most popular culinary sets. It's a great starter set for outfitting your FCS classroom and teaching culinary knife skills.

Medium Minute: Art Graf Watercolor Graphite

In this Medium Minute, we're looking at watercolor graphite, which offers a wide range of shades from deep black to transparent gray.

Medium Minute: Marker Bingo Daubers

Have you tried bingo marker daubers yet? These no-spill bottles can be filled with paint or ink. Get amazing results with less mess!

Medium Minute: Azure Markers

In this Medium Minute, our resident art teacher Sam Rausch introduces your new favorite blendable artist markers.

Art lesson plan: Color mapping and mindfulness​

Looking for an art lesson that comes with an SEL twist? In this easy project, students will create a nonobjective watercolor painting, learn about topographical maps, and practice mindfulness during the art making process.

Fun and easy STEM/STEAM projects for your classroom

You don't need a ton of time or high-tech supplies for easy STEM projects. Try building bots that move, light up, use solar power, and more!

What do your students know about Daylight Saving Time?

Spring forward, fall back, and get some Daylight Saving Time activity ideas for engaging students in problem-solving and mathematics.

Learn about the Nasco Design, Engineering, and Circuitry Kit

Spark your students' interest by building a light-up town together! This highly adaptable unit provides teachers with a guide and supplies.

Medium Minute: Watercolor Crayons

In this Medium Minute, our art teacher in residence discusses watercolor crayons — an exciting mix between oil pastels and watercolor paints.

Medium Minute: Matte Graphite Drawing Pencils

Looking for maximum depth in drawings? Our art teacher in residence discusses one of her top drawing supplies: matte graphite drawing pencils.

Medium Minute: Tempera Paint Sticks

Painting without water or brushes? Yes! In this Medium Minute, learn all about tempera paint sticks, see project samples, and get inspired!

How to choose a microscope for your K–12 classroom

Not sure how to choose a microscope? Learn about the different types of microscopes, the parts of a microscope, and how to choose magnification strength.

Learn about Brayden CPR Training Manikin with Indicator Lights

Discover how the Brayden CPR Training Manikin with Indicator Lights helps your students verify proper CPR techniques.

Exploring circuitry and electronics with E-Blox

Learn about the amazing E-Blox Circuitry Blox platform! The LED building blocks contain electronic components that allow students to build colorful creations and explore circuitry.

Build students’ sewing and SEL skills with this create-your-own-fidget kit

Give students a chance to practice basic sewing skills and explore stress reduction techniques with one easy lesson!

Teach mindfulness skills anywhere with this engaging SEL kit

No matter where students are, they can utilize mindfulness techniques to become more focused, manage difficult emotions, and form a more caring and compassionate attitude.

Conquer classroom fidgeting with the Nasco Quiet Bag

Reduce stress and help students regain focus in the classroom with the Quiet Bag Kit. This kit is filled with sensory solutions to help calm students' nerves when they become overstimulated or experience sensory overload. Everything stays organized in a portable drawstring bag.

Support the mental health of students in grades 6–12 with first aid kits

Similar to the first aid kit we would use if we were physically injured, we’ve developed a first aid kit focused on mental health to address the high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression among students.

Provide mental health support for elementary students with first aid kits

Similar to the first aid kit we would use if we were physically injured, we’ve developed a first aid kit focused on mental health to address the high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression among students.

Encourage good classroom behaviors with the Nasco Desk Pet Kit

Desk pets are more than just an internet phenomenon — they’re a powerful classroom management and SEL tool you can use to teach your students responsible decision-making and self-management.

Create a calming corner in your classroom with this all-in-one kit

In a calming corner, overwhelmed and overstimulated students can relax and regain focus to get through the school day. Learn how you can instantly create one to help students focus.

How to color-code your FCS kitchen labs

Watch this video to learn how Nasco Education helped teacher Erin Paprocki equip the new color-coded FCS kitchen space at Fox River Middle School.

Preserving dissection specimens with NASCOGuard®

Learn how Nasco Education preserves its premium-quality dissection specimens with NASCOGuard® to keep you and your students safe.

Learn about the Nasco Injection Belly

Learn about the injection belly for teaching patients how to insert and rotate the infusion set for insulin pumps and give self-injections.

Basic tools and techniques for safe dissection in the classroom

In this brief tutorial, you will learn the basic tools required for a safe dissection, the proper techniques for holding and using these tools, and safe ways to add or remove scalpel blades.

How to properly store and care for dissection specimens

Learn how to properly store and care for dissection specimens to maintain the quality and ensure a successful dissection experience.

See how the hand boiler works

The hand boiler is designed for demonstrating that vapor pressure increases when the temperature increases — learn how it works.

Learn about the Fire Syringe

As air compresses, the temperature increases, and combustible material bursts into flames — help students learn about this process with the Fire Syringe.

Learn about Wave Wires™ Kinetic Magnets Stations

Investigate force and motion, energy, waves, patterns, structure and properties of matter, engineering design, and cause and effect with the Wave Wires Kinetic Magnets Station.

Learn about the effects of vibration with the Resonance Bowl

Using this resonance bowl, you can provide a hands-on demonstration of the behavior of waves and frequencies by rubbing the copper handles.

Learn about the Augmented Reality Sandbox

Learn how this incredible augmented reality sandbox enables users to create topography models by shaping real sand, which is then augmented in real-time.

How to prevent broken glass slides with Sticky Slides

Learn how innovative Sticky Slides prevent broken slides and will stick to the surface of any microscope to make field studies easy and safe.

How to successfully launch your solar balloon in science class

Learn how to successfully launch a solar balloon to teach students scientific principles such as density and buoyancy.

Focus on social-emotional learning with kits for home and school

Learn about hands-on social-emotional learning kits that help students focus on their emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

Support students’ mental health with the SEL Reflections Middle School Journal Kit

See how this journaling kit supports students' mental health with 30 days of prompts built around CASEL's core competencies.

How to teach SEL skills in class and at home with Mindfulness and Emotion Activity Cards

These handy card sets help teach SEL skills to students who struggle with expressing and dealing with emotions.

Teach choices and consequences with the Consequences Discussion Cards

Get students talking, thinking, and learning about their choices and consequences with this set of 36 discussion cards.

Focus on emotions in the classroom with the Emotion-oes Game

Focus on emotions in the classroom with this game that helps your students understand what emotions look like on other people.

Using Social Skills Board Games in your classroom

Learn how to target six important social skills with board games: morals, manners, empathy, friendship, and showing and managing emotions.

How to use the What Do You Stand For? Character Building Card Game in your classroom

Get your students thinking about different situations with this fun character-building game that focuses on 10 character traits.