Pretty cool stuff!
I was going to recommend Epoch for their spin kits, I have 3 of them and they all work great, plus they seem to be 50%+ cheaper than other places I've found comparable spin kits.
Though I did look up the Omega Bio-Tek genomic isolation spin kit, and it's nice they sell them in packs of 5, so that'd probably be enough and save ya some cash.
Other than that for a gel all you really need is agarose to run a gel + a DNA stain. I recommend GelGreen which can be bought for $21 for enough to make 50 50mL mini gels
I use it and it looks great under UV light. http://gyazo.com/6282a5952c347fb453a1dbefa94276b5
Make sure you have UV filtering glasses or a cover before viewing it or you'll hurt your eyes.
It also works with blue LED's but...havn't tried that yet because I had the wrong colors hanging around.
Can also grab agarose and any buffers you need from phenix. I used them for gelgreen + agarose. agarose is $50 i think for 25g, again, enough for ~50 mini gels. Throw in some tips and 1.5mL centriuge tubes if you need them. You're also going to need some non-denatured high % ethanol, which will probably be the single hardest item to get. The spin kits require 96%-100% ethanol non-denatured ethanol in 1 or 2 of the buffers generally. Would using denatured ethanol hurt the DNA recovery? I have no idea, but I know it's not recommended, so maybe someone else can comment.
Other than that all I can think of you needing are restriction enzymes...try www.neb.com You could say are a home-schooler and maybe they'll wave the restrictions they sometimes place on residential addresses. Otherwise , maybe see if the science teacher at your daughter's school (or local high school) would be willing to order the science stuff to go there, and if you and your daughter get it to work, she can show it to the class and perhaps make a classroom experiment out of it.
There are lots of supplies out there but after a little shoppingp phenix seemed to have most/all of what was needed at a decent price & free shipping. If you find a better place let us know!
So based on what you said you'll probably still need.
-pipette tips
-1.5mL microcentrifuge tubes
-agarose
-GelGreen
-DNA loading dye
-DNA ladder
-95%+ non-denatured ethanol (no idea)
-UV protective cover for gel box or UV protective glasses
-Restriction enzymes (new england biolabs, or ask local highschool, I know AP bio students generally always do a restriction analysis for one of the labs).
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