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20 New Kits for 2013! |
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Rocket Science |
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Last century, the effort to put humans on the moon inspired a whole generation of scientists and engineers. More recently, we have been captivated by new discoveries made by robots on Mars. Our internet, GPS maps, and telecommunications networks all depend on satellites. Whether you’re putting humans on the moon, robots on Mars, or satellites in orbit, you need rockets built by rocket scientists.
This kit is, in fact, rocket science. But that doesn’t mean it’s difficult or boring! Physics comes alive in this action-packed series of experiments centered around a specially-designed “stomp-on” rocket launcher with three foam rockets. Launch water- and air-powered rockets to learn about action and reaction forces. Build a balloonpropelled rocket, boat, and race car. Play a game to try to hit target “planets” with the foam rockets. Explore the physical principles of gravity and inertia. Learn about air pressure. Read up on the different vehicles humans have used to escape Earth’s gravitational pull.
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Crystal Creation |
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Crystals are fascinating creations of natural beauty. Diamonds,
gemstones, rose quartz, snowflakes, sugar grains, and table salt are all
crystals. Grow your own crystals and explore these exquisitely ordered
structures in a fun, creative way with six crafty experiments.
This kit includes five different chemicals and other tools for growing
crystals. Grow a crystal cloud inside a rainbow. Watch pink iridescent
crystals form from a translucent solution. Grow long needle-shaped
crystals. Mold plaster hearts and flowers and then grow a layer of pink
crystals on them. Create the perfect solution to get crystals to form on
a granite rock.
A specially designed experiment station provides molds and
growing basins for your crystal creations. After you have grown your
crystals, store them safely in three clear, locking display boxes. Learn
how and why crystals form, and tips and tricks for getting the biggest,
most beautiful crystals. Full-color, 16-page experiment manual.
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Electronics |
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In this increasingly digital world, it is more and more important for kids
to have a basic understanding of electricity and electronics. With this
experiment kit, you can get a well-rounded introduction to electronic
circuits and the most important electronic components found in today’s
digital devices.
Assemble 20 electric circuits on the custom-designed plastic
circuit board including a moisture sensor, conductivity tester,
polygraph, alarm systems, door alarm, flip-flop circuit, timed switch,
timer, flashing lights, battery tester, touch sensor, and temperature
sensor. Become familiar with essential electronic components including
conducting connectors, resistors, LEDs (light-emitting diodes),
capacitors, transistors, switches, and power sources.
Learn about conductors, insulators, and the flow of electrons.
Understand abstract scientific terms like voltage, current, and
resistance. Learn how to read circuit diagrams and circuit symbols.
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Science Experiments in the Tub |
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Splash into science with this experiment kit designed specifically
for use in the bathtub, kitchen sink, or backyard kiddie pool! Try
nine fun experiments with water to learn about the properties of
water, water pressure, buoyancy, surface tension, and more. Build a
boat, a tiny waterwheel, soapy spinning disks, and communicating
vessels. The experiment manual is printed on waterproof plastic
cards instead of paper.
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Solar Thermal Lab |
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Solar thermal energy refers to the technology of collecting solar energy in the form of heat and making it useful, for example, by converting it into electricity or heating homes. Huge solar thermal towers are being installed in sunny places around the world
to convert the sun’s heat into electricity via turbines powered by hot air. With this kit,
you can build your own simple solar thermal updraft towers to collect the sun’s energy
and use it to spin colorful turbines. Test the solar turbines in various configurations and
compare the results from two different towers. Learn about thermal updrafts and solar
thermal energy.
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Electro Chem Clock |
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Explore the exciting science of electrochemistry with this fun
electric lab. Build a battery that produces electricity from lemon
juice. Use the battery to power a digital clock with LCD display.
Experiment with using other acids, such as cola or even salty water,
to power your clock. Learn the basics of electricity, electrochemical
reactions, batteries, and conductors and insulators.
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Crystal Garden |
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Grow a marvelous crystal garden with these fast-growing crystals. The
centers of four flower cards bloom into delicate crystal structures in just
a few hours. You can practically see the crystals form before your eyes
on the branches of filter-paper trees. Learn about how and why crystals
form, and experiment with different colored flowers.
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Water |
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Explore the physical properties of water in eight
experiments. Learn why boats float. Defy gravity
with water. Experiment with surface tension and
the basic principles of hydraulics.
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Bubbles |
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Do fun tricks with bubbles to learn basic scientific
principles. Blow giant bubbles, mini-bubbles,
bubbles within bubbles, chains of bubbles, and
bubble blankets. Includes original Pustefix solution.
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Magnets |
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Discover the invisible world of magnetic forces.
“Draw” pictures with magnets. Make a magnetic
driving test. Test the strength of magnets and
learn how to lift objects without touching them!
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Optical Illusions |
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Explore the phenomena of optical illusions
with ten fun experiments. Play with a distorting
mirror. Learn how 3D glasses work. Build a
kaleidoscope. Make a simple “motion picture.”anual guides your experiments with illustrated step-by-step instructions.
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Kids First Biology Lab |
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Discover the science of living things with this
complete introductory microscope kit. The
beautifully illustrated experiment manual
guides you through observations of many
living specimens found in and around your
home: onion cells, pond water, chloroplasts,
plant stem cross sections, microorganisms,
mouth cells, meat cells, different types of hair
and fur, dust mites, bugs, pollen in honey, and
much more.
See how an onion cell shrivels and how an
earthworm wiggles. Analyze the differences
between the hair on your head and the sheep’s
hair in your wool sweater.
The kit includes three prepared specimens
on a slide, four blank slides, cover slips,
tweezers, needle, section slicing tool, and
vial. Learn how to use these tools to prepare
slides and how to use the microscope to
examine them. Investigate how the lenses in a
microscope bend light to magnify images.
The ocular lens, or eyepiece lens, of the
microscope has an adjustable 12x to 18x
magnification power. When combined with
the three objective lenses, this results in a
total magnification power of 96x to 750x. It
has a battery-powered light and a mirror to
light up the specimens. The full-color, 32-page
manual covers microscope setup, usage, and
many fascinating observations of biological
specimens.
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Kids First Chemistry Set |
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Kick off a chain reaction of fun-filled
experiments with this introductory chemistry
set designed specifically for young kids.
Junior chemists can safely explore simple
chemistry using the tools in this kit and
common household substances from the
kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room.
Learn how to use basic chemistry
equipment such as filters, test tubes, pipettes,
and measuring spoons, and beakers. Make
your own test tube racks out of plaster and
learn about the chemical reaction that formed
them.
Conduct experiments to identify different
chemicals using reactions, heat, evaporation,
and crystallization. Examine the composition
of inks and dyes with chromatography
experiments, where colors magically separate
from one another on a filter paper disk.
Explore the properties of water, soaps, and
oils.
Experiment with acids and bases using
indicators (pH strips and cabbage juice)
to identify them. Make fizzy reactions with
acids and bases to dissolve shells and inflate
balloons. Discover the invisible gas carbon
dioxide and its very visible effects.
The full-color, 48-page manual guides
inquisitive young chemists and their adult
supervisors through safely conducting each of
the 25 experiments.
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Science or Magic? |
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Science is often said to be magic, and magical
phenomena are often explained with science.
This kit gives kids a fun way to explore
scientific occurrences and principles by
doing exciting tricks and performances for an
audience.
The 20 easy tricks in this kit always have
scientific explanations behind them, even if
they appear to defy the laws of physics and
nature. The tricks include levitating objects,
making objects appear as if to move on
their own, gravity-defying water, magically
puncturing an apple with a flimsy plastic
straw, a magical funnel that won’t let water
through, resting a balloon on a bed of nails
without it popping, disappearing water, a
magical balancing butterfly, levitating a funnel
on a string, a magic box that makes objects
disappear, and many more.
Fun demonstrations include: What falls
faster, a feather or a heavy weight? Can you
blow bubbles into two glasses of water at the
same time? Can you make a water balloon
rise up on its own from the bottom of a tub of
water?
The kit also includes a small cardboard
theater, props, tickets, and flyers to set the
right stage for your magic show. The 48-page,
full-color, comic-book style manual guides
you through the preparation and performance
of 20 magic tricks.
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Electronics Advanced Circuits |
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Tap into the awesome world of electronics
with this advanced system of snap-together
electric building blocks. Start out by
experimenting with colorful light-up circuits as
you dive into the basics of electricity. Install
a sound module to generate the sounds of
police cars, ambulances, or fire engines.
Learn the important role resistors and
potentiometers (variable resistors) play in an
electronic circuit.
Use a multimeter to measure invisible
voltage and current flowing through your
circuit. Investigate transistors in switches and
amplifiers to learn how the logical circuits
in computers work. Build circuits that use
sensors to detect moisture, temperature, and
visible light.
Incorporate capacitors in your circuits
to store and discharge electricity for specific
functions, such as a countdown clock and
a red-green alternate flasher. Test out the
indispensable 555 timer to build some
complicated circuits. Use an operational
amplifier and an FM radio module to build an
alarm clock.
This kit uses the same unique electric
building blocks as our other electronics kits,
with the addition of many new advanced
components, allowing you to build more
complex circuits. The more than 140 electronic
components include capacitors, resistors,
transistors, LEDs (light emitting diodes),
phototransistor, switches, speaker, integrated
circuit, infrared LED, diodes, FM tuner, 555
timer, operation amplifier, two potentiometers,
electrodes, voltage and current meter,
microphone, and 9-volt battery pack.
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| Scope Constructor |
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Build your own microscopes, telescopes,
and binoculars with this unique optical
construction kit. This innovative kit teaches
young scientists how microscopes and
telescopes work by letting them build these
scopes from simple, reconfigurable parts.
Discover first-hand how lenses bend light
and learn how they can be combined together
to make images larger and clearer for different
applications.
Build many types of scopes and learn how
their various components function. Experiment
with different lenses, different tube lengths,
and different body configurations. Construct
binoculars and a spotting scope.
Examine three prepared slides under your
microscope and prepare your own slides. Use
the telescopes to view far away objects on
Earth, and the craters on the moon.
Build 28 different models with 147 building
pieces. Full-color, 60-page experiment
manual.
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| Air-Stream Machines |
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Build a working hovercraft that glides across
smooth floors or flat water on a cushion of air.
Learn how even though air is invisible, it still
has mass and can support very heavy objects
under the right circumstances. Experiment
with propellers and impellers to learn about air
pressure and air flow.
The models in this kit use a unique blower
motor and a safe, soft-bladed fan to drive a
series of models. The blower motor uses an
impeller to increase the air pressure under
the hovercraft. The fan creates a stream of
air to push the vehicle forward. Using these
components, you can build and investigate the
hovercraft and other machines that rely on air
and air pressure to function.
Construct a batting machine that tosses
a ball upward on a stream of air. Assemble
a basketball launcher and practice shooting
hoops with air power. Make a fan-driven car
that drives forward, propelled by a stream of
air. Experiment to see how much weight your
hovercraft can support.
Full-color, 32-page experiment manual. 59
building pieces.
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| Air+Water Power PLUS |
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Build your own models powered by air
pressure and water to learn about the laws of
physics. A larger, super-charged version of
our original Air+Water Power kit, this kit allows
you to build more powerful models using two
different air-and-water-powered systems:
water-jet propelled cars and hydro-pneumo
(water-air) powered engines. The hydropneumo
system in this kit uses a larger, more
powerful self-contained air-and-water turbine
system as a motor. Two pressurized air-water
tanks are included, allowing you to build two
water-jet propelled cars simultaneously and
race them against each other.
Construct 30 models including
pressurized water guns, air-and-water turbine
driven cars, rocket cars, and jet boats.
The water-jet propelled cars are a fun
outdoor activity, while the self-contained
hydro-pneumo powered models are fun both
indoors and out. Compete with your friends
to see whose water-jet propelled car goes the
fastest, and whose hydro-pneumo car goes
the farthest!
60-page color instruction book.
176 building pieces.
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Solar Car |
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Construct a solar-electric car and four
additional models using an innovative
motor module that can be powered by a
solar cell or batteries.
Build a race car that drives across
the floor, a helicopter with spinning rotor
blades, a windmill with spinning turbine, a
jet plane, and a gyrocopter.
Learn how solar cells convert energy
from sunlight into electricity to drive the
motor and move your models.
Full-color, 32-page color instruction
book. 30 building pieces.
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Solar Boat |
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Construct a solar-electric boat and five
additional models using an innovative
motor module that can be powered by a
solar cell or batteries.
Build a solar catamaran driven by a
fanboat-like propeller, a windmill, airplane
model, spaceship model, fan, and rocket
model.
Learn how solar cells convert energy
from sunlight into electricity to drive the
motor and move your models.
Full-color, 32-page color instruction
book. 40 building pieces.
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