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It’s a scientific breakthrough! Oh, wait, no, it’s a rare-earth magnet encased in white plastic. Great for holding notes on your white refrigerator without clashing. Measures 1-1/4” x 3/8” x 5/16” and also has a piece of self-adhesive foam on the back to stick where magnets won’t grab.

Y columna vertebral. Y the bones, fractures and dislocations associated with them. All the text on these 26” x 20” slightly glossy anatomical charts featuring the shoulder, elbow and spinal column is in Spanish. If you want them for a classroom or a doctor’s office, better get them fast, before they sell out as funky wall art.

Yes, sports fans and people with small hands, now you can own those very special short pencils favored by professional golfers and primary grade teachers the world over. You get (250) pencils, at less than (7) cents each. Not much less, but less. They come in assorted colors, all our samples were red, blue and black, but they could be any color or even mixed (we'll let the Surplus gods decide what we send your way). They are blanks, so no need to worry about showcasing anyone's corporate logo. Definitely not available from your local pro shop.

It was a Lovin' Spoonful hit in 1966, but it’s also the time of year when kiddies are bored and need to be amused. Come to think of it, maybe that's all year long and not just summer, so pay no attention to that headline and just get The Ultimate Kids' Adventure Guide to Chicago, a (195)-page, soft-cover, 9” x 6” book with dozens of field-trip ideas in Chicago, the suburbs and a few outlying, day-trip locations. Includes a section on where to stay for out-of-towners dragging their kids to the big city. Includes lots of educational places and museums along with just plain fun-for-kids spots, parks and restaurants. And yes, we're in it because we're an adventure all by ourselves.

Give a Pre-K kid a running start with these Mr. Potato Head-themed flash cards. The set of (4) packs of educational cards, meant for Pre-K-ers, covers numbers, colors and shapes, the alphabet and first words. There you go—some math, language and basic skills—everything a kid needs heading into kindergarten. Napping tips not included.

Dominoes aren't just for those old guys with cigars in the park. These use Cuisenaire rods to help teach basic math concepts. You get (5) tiles, 1-5/8" x 2-1/4", for numbers 1 to 10 plus (10) transitional tiles that can be used with either set (1 to 5 or 6 to 10). Includes game rules and teacher's notes.

These are for drawing, drafting, carpentry, map-measuring, and other stuff we've forgotten. From Bazic Products®, these scale-arm compasses have easy-to-read graduation arcs in inches and metric, and will make circles up to 12” dia. Include a short #2 pencil and a safe metal tip, so students won't stick them in the desktops. We'll pick (3) in some combination of purple, green, pink and blue. Gives you something to look forward to.

Clever little plastic boxes 4-1/2" x 2-1/4" x 1" hold note paper - and dispense one sheet at a time as you open and close the cover. The clear red box is labeled "Mom". They work even better with business cards, so they make great little gifts if Mom has her own cards. We'll send you a bag of (3) with each order. 

Or want to teach kiddies to write like Dickens or draw like Michalengelo? Start with blank, staple-bound 28-page paperbacks with bright white, 80-lb paper stock pages and card-stock blank covers. You pick: the 7” x 8-1/2” books or the 8-1/2” x 11” book, both with un-ruled pages because when you're young, staying between the lines isn't the thing to do.

That's what you get with this tesla coil!! Brand new, commercial item, great for classroom demonstrations and experiments. The 50,000 volt capacity generator radiates high frequency energy through space... enough to light fluorescent tubes two feet away. It uses 115 VAC (60 Hz) with an electro-magnetically operated interrupter buzzer, high voltage capacitors, inductive coil transformer, and a monopolar high frequency transformer generator to do the trick. 11" high, with a 6" sq. x 2" high protective housing for the generator. Includes accessories and instruction booklet with 19 experiments. Pretty amazing. But please, this is not a toy and should be used only under adult supervision.

Genuine, original, accept-no-substitutes brand-name Sharpie®s for when you really mean it and want a permanent marker. You pick the fine point red or blue, or the blue with a 3/16” bullet tip.

Not every author aims for grossness, but when they do, there’s a good chance you’ll find their book here! Totally Gross Experiments and Activities by Susan Martineau features (144) pages, each with vivid-color, highly detailed illustrations, and instructions on how to perform (66) different STEAM experiments, recipes for frightful food you can actually eat, and abominable art activities. Ages 7-11. Made in USA.

You choose between our 2" square classroom demonstration slides. The diffraction grating slide has 500 lines per mm resolution and a wavelength chart; the linear polarized filter slide has a 1-3/8” x 15/16” window. Nice for classroom and home-schooling use. Made in the USA.

Sure, measure twice, cut once, but what the master craftspeople don’t tell you is to record those measurements. This handy set is ideal for the woodworking lumbersmith in your life. The Woodworker’s Shop Journal is filled with (100) pages of ¼” grids to record and plan your plank projects. There’s also more than (20) pages of reference material like charts, lumber specs, tool guides and checklists for your woodworking edification. With a journal this thorough, you’ll need a writing implement that can keep up, so we’re including our very own amazing 9-way ruler-driver-stylus pen tool. It includes (4) different rulers, a bubble level, Phillips and slotted drivers and more. Who woodn’t like a set like this?

These (2) reproduction maps are printed on "antiqued vellum" and are both approx 15-3/4" x 14". They show, respectively, the locations of Civil War battles and the principal events in the Revolutionary War, along with chronologies at the bottom. Lots of info packed into a small space, but the kids will read them easily. You might want some glasses. Includes both maps.

You don't have to be a scientist to love these science and lab notebooks. All new, mostly hardcover, most with graph paper pages, some with lines, all with numbered pages and room for project or experiment names and dates. In a nutshell, they’re big, blank books that are as suitable for your diary entries, drawings, poems, collages, shopping lists and hand-written great American novel as they are for science notes. A few have university, lab or drug company names on the front and most are 8-1/2” x 11” with some a little smaller and some a little larger. (But Surplus rules apply: you get what you get without throwing a fit) Can you say “assorted”? Our each is a pack of (2) different, at least one of which will be a hardcover.

We've got (2) great grid-posters for the classroom or the lab. The 18" x 24" posters have 1/2" squares, 33 x 27, with headers on the x and y axis. The all-around borders have outer-space images or dinosaurs. Why not get both?

Like those giant floor-standing globes in places like explorers’ clubs, but just under a foot tall. From Replogle Globes, this very nice 6” version honors explorer Sebastian Cabot and is based on the late 17th Century globes of cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli, when California was still thought to be an island. Stands 11-1/2” tall with a 4-1/4” wooden base and a 7” semi-meridian.