Carolina Distance Learning® Essential Kits

Affordable, rigorous lab kits—aligned to OpenStax®, under $125, and ready to ship.

Affordable, rigorous lab kits—aligned to OpenStax®, under $125, and ready to ship.

Created by our Distance Learning Specialists, Essential Kits provide students with a full lab experience that combines hands-on and virtual components. Each kit is aligned with free OpenStax® textbooks, making them accessible, affordable, and designed to support student success.

Why Choose Carolina Distance Learning® Essentials Kits?

Created by our Distance Learning Specialists, Essential Kits provide students with a full lab experience that combines hands-on and virtual components. Each kit is aligned with free OpenStax® textbooks, making them accessible, affordable, and designed to support student success.

These kits are a great choice for educators looking for cost-effective lab kits to help students meet learning objectives. Kits start at just $70 and are:

  • Aligned – Built to match OpenStax® textbooks for seamless course integration and accessible learning.
  • Affordable – Under $125 per kit, making rigorous lab experiences cost-effective.
  • Hands-On – Includes the most popular lab investigations to ensure students build practical skills.
  • Reliable – In stock and ready to ship immediately, so your labs run on time.
  • Supported – Backed by Carolina expertise to simplify implementation for instructors.

Essentials Kits

Popular labs, proven outcomes, built for every student’s success.

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Carolina Distance Learning® Essentials Anatomy & Physiology Kit

Kit Summary:

# of Hands-On Labs:

# of Virtual Labs:

# of Dry Labs:

# of Equipment Sets:

4

15

8

2

* (all virtual and dry labs)

Learning Objectives

Students build lab safety skills, practice dissections, explore organ systems, investigate physiology, study histology, and apply molecular techniques to connect structure, function, and human health.

85.00

Carolina Distance Learning® Essentials Biology Kit

Kit Summary:

# of Hands-On Labs:

# of Virtual Labs:

# of Dry Labs:

# of Equipment Sets:

5

19

10

2

* (all virtual and dry labs)

Learning Objectives

Students apply the scientific method, explore cells and DNA, investigate respiration and mitosis, analyze genetic processes, classify organisms, and connect biology concepts to real-world science.

99.00

Carolina Distance Learning® Essentials Chemistry Kit

Kit Summary:

# of Hands-On Labs:

# of Virtual Labs:

# of Dry Labs:

# of Equipment Sets:

3

24

7

3

* (all virtual and dry labs)

Learning Objectives

Students practice lab safety, explore matter and reactions, balance equations, investigate stoichiometry, analyze atomic structure, and apply the scientific method to explain chemical and physical changes.

75.00

Carolina Distance Learning® Essentials Microbiology Kit

Kit Summary:

# of Hands-On Labs:

# of Virtual Labs:

# of Dry Labs:

# of Equipment Sets:

4

9

4

3

* (all virtual and dry labs)

Learning Objectives

Students practice aseptic technique, culture microbes, and test antibiotic effectiveness while applying clinical microbiology methods used in healthcare, research, and biotechnology.

97.00

Carolina Distance Learning® Essentials Physics Kit

Kit Summary:

# of Hands-On Labs:

# of Virtual Labs:

# of Dry Labs:

# of Equipment Sets:

6

29

4

1

* (all virtual and dry labs)

Learning Objectives

Students explore motion, forces, energy, and electricity—applying physics principles that underpin engineering, technology, transportation, and everyday problem-solving in the real world.

75.00

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