Nasco Education
In rural Wisconsin in 1941, Norman Eckley was struggling to prepare his students for future jobs in agriculture. His struggle had nothing to do with his knowledge, experience, or teaching ability. He just couldn’t find the teaching tools he needed to support his lessons — so he decided to create his own.
Norman’s teaching aids brought learning to life in the classroom and offered his students real-world experiences. Working from his garage, he went on to found Nasco Education and share them with teachers everywhere through his mail-order catalogs. Suddenly, those impossible-to-find resources were all in one place at teachers’ fingertips.
This single-minded mission — to empower teachers with hands-on solutions that prepare, engage, and inspire students — is the foundation on which Nasco Education was built.
Empowering teachers
It starts with making your job easier. Our carefully curated supplies, pre-assembled and custom educational kits, comprehensive curriculums, free lesson plans, and webinars are all designed to save you time and help you deliver lessons students will never forget.
Engaging students
Whether you’re looking for supplies to inspire young artists, math manipulatives for each student, or engaging lessons for science, culinary arts, or AFNR — it’s all here. You’ll even find ways to focus on diversity and help students practice social-emotional skills.
Resources from Nasco Education
Nasco I Spy, I Move: Self-Management Adventures in Body and Mind Kit for PE & SEL
Watch how bugs move, compare their speeds, monitor distances traveled, and then see how students can do the same.
Nasco Biology Lab Kit
Complete lab kit for high school-level Biology.
Nasco Physics Lab Kit
Complete lab kit for high school-level Physics.
Nasco Chemistry Lab Kit
Complete lab kit for high school-level Chemistry
Nasco Physical Science Lab Kit
Complete lab kit for high school-level Physical Sciences.
Nasco Electronics Kit
Learn about switches, series and parallel circuits, lights, short circuits, electrolysis, conductors and insulators, fuses, Morse code, and resistance.
Discovery Kit for Raspberry Pi Pico
Learn how to use a Raspberry Pi, microcontrollers, Python coding, and physical electronics assembly.
Individual Student Large Circuitry Kit
Three weeks of projects and lessons that work either in the classroom of can be sent home for virtual learning.
The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements
Learn the elements quickly with this beautiful card deck.
Smart Starts Kit, Grades K-1
Keeps skills sharp through the summer break
Intermediate Individual Learning Math Kit
Tried-and-true manipulatives gives teachers flexibility and helps students learn, no matter where the classroom is.
Acid or Base? Individual Student Kit
Students will be introduced to acids and bases, then test a dilute acid and dilute base with neutral litmus paper, and will then test household items.