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I am learning electricity and magnetism remotely, what is the best tool kit in the market for a home lab to accompany this college course?

My university suspended all labs in the physics department and there is no virtual option, but for me to understand E&M I need to see some live experiments and do them myself. What lab kit on the market can help me understand concepts like Gauss' Law, electric potential and the mathematical justifications for the electric field of a wire, non-conducting sphere and conducting hollow cylinder? What equipment would I need to measure electric field? This is a calculus based class for freshmen/sophomores and we are supposed to have a 3 hour lab every week.

Right now my E&M just feels like a math class but there is no physical intuition as to why anything is true other than to treat them as ideas that should reflect reality.