PTA contributed toward the purchase of lunchboxes and supplies. The Program Lunch Box Science Kits are introduced to students by the teacher. This hands-on activity is taken home by the student and worked with parents and other family members. Each kit contains material for a specific science activities such as magnetism, classification of rocks and minerals, static electricity, buoyancy, color and light, conductors and insulators, awareness of the five senses, vertebrate, characteristics, changes in matter, pitch and vibration, acids and bases, simple machines, food groups and nutrition, and structure of matter. Throughout the year, each of these activities is introduced in the classroom as a unit of study in the science curriculum.
Students try experiments, like magnets going through water, plastic, wood and paper.
Then they give predictions, such as determining how many paper clips the magnet can pickup and which bar magnet is the strongest. Initially, the teacher serves as the facilitator and the student serves as the learner. Students can keep a science journal, and their reports can be read to students in class in order to compare the results they get on hands-on activities done at home. Kits also contain worksheets for students to use. Students can share their kits and can work other student kits.