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1. REVOLUTION
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More Info | 2. Four-In-One Action Kit Lab
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Features:- Quite A Kit We're really charged up about this modular Electronic Lab from Maxitronix(tm) that appeals to both girls and boys. The 4-in-1 set of interactive action kits includes colorful 5-1/2" x 3" x 1-1/8" plastic housings and components to build an electric bell, motor, generator and meter.
- As the manual says, they're "safe, solderless, educational and fun!" And the manual is the best we've ever seen. Every part and every step is illustrated and labeled (it doesn't presume you can tell an egg lug from a tapping screw), and it explains HOW each experiment works.
- Kids trying out the 10 suggested experiments learn to reverse a motor's direction, operate the bell or motor with the generator, use the meter to measure electricity and more. Requires (2) "AA" batteries (not included) This is an exceptional set for boys and girls aged 10 and up.
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More Info | 3. Green Science Enviro Battery Kit
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Features:- Green Science Harness the power of lemons, potatoes or mud. The Enviro-Battery Kit has copper and zinc plates, cups, an LED monitor on a little tower, sound module, LCD clock plus wire and tape. You perform (6) different battery experiments, plus many more suggested in the included book, and yes, a mud battery is among them.
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More Info | 4. Six different small science kits. Educational, easy to assemble, and fun for scientific beginners.
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Features:- Scientific Six-Pack Six, count 'em, six different small science kits that are educational, easy to assemble, and fun for scientific beginners.
- You get a motorized robotic bird with an 8" wingspan, a 9" skeleton model, a 20X microscope with blank slides, a balloon-powered car, an electrical maze that teaches conductivity, and a 2" tall baking-soda volcano.
- Instructions included, but you'll need to add (2) "AA" batteries to a couple of these kits. We think Aristotle's parents must have started him off with something like this. From Science Time".
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More Info | 5. SLINGSHOT SCREAMING MONKEY
| From: American Science & Surplus
Features:- Screeching Monkey Superhero! Look! Up in the sky! It's a screeching flying monkey to the rescue! And at a screechingly low price.
- Our hero is an 11" long stuffed monkey in superhero togs (a cape, and maybe a mask or hood, depending on his sartorial whim) Put two fingers in the little pockets on his paws, pull his bungee arms back, and let him go.
- He'll fly a good 25 feet or more, issuing hideous monkey screeches all the while, faster than a flying nun and able to brighten up a day in the office in a single bound.
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More Info | 6. ASTRONIGHTS BLACK PAPER
| From: American Science & Surplus
Features:- Acid-Free Black Paper. Also lignin-free, which means museum-quality backers for photo mounting, silhouettes, lightweight mats or other scrapbook applications.
- Our (25) sheets of 8-1/2 x 11", 24-lb black paper translates to $15 a ream, which translates to bargain city.
- From Wausau Papers® and no, we don't know what the "Astronights" name is about.
- But we think it might have something to do with preteen girls drawing stars and initials on these sheets with white or neon-pastel gel pens.
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More Info | 7. Wooden Automata Flying Pig Model Kit
| From: American Science & Surplus
Features:- When Pigs Fly... everybody watches in awe. This pig, maybe not quite awe, since it doesn't actually get lift-off.
- But the unpainted wooden version of our popular flying-pig paper automaton is fun to build and even more fun to watch it flap its porcine wings as you turn the side crank. Roughly 9" x 9" when assembled.
- It's made of pre-cut, 1/4" and 1/8" wood, and slides together, but could be permanently glued. For ages 8 and up, but a thoughtful dad could thrill younger tykes with it.
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More Info | 8. PIRATE SHIP KIT
| From: American Science & Surplus
Features:- Avast! That's pirate for "Stop!" So stop already and order your pirate ship model kit.
- If you're a law-abider, you can get the USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, the frigate (now moored in Charlestown, MA) that won the War of 1812, or HMS Victory, upon whose decks Nelson beat the Franco-Spanish fleet, and then died, at Trafalgar (now in dry dock in Portsmouth, England)
- These are smallish, but nicely detailed and reasonably complex wooden kits, made for ages 10 and up-which means complicated enough to be fun to build but simple enough not to make you scream AAAAAARGHH and quit. They are approx 8-1/2" long x 9" tall when assembled, with rigging.
- They come with good directions; you add the glue and paint or varnish and they're ready for the mantel.
- Click on the accessories link to see other items mentioned in this description.
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More Info | 9. FLUORESCENT MINERALS
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Features:- Bright Box Of Rocks Straight from the hand of Nature, and Scott Resources, comes this boxed collection of (15) fluorescent mineral specimens. Shine an ordinary blacklight on them and watch them glow in the dark.
- Includes interesting 1" to 1-1/2" specimens of hackmanite, turritella agate, aragonite, travertine, willemite, resinous coal, selenite gypsum, zeolite in Wyomingite, fluorite, calcite, dinosaur bone, scapolite var.
- Wernerite, fossil algae, coquina, and hanksite, all in a divided box with a fact sheet. Very nice collection.
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More Info | 10. EARTH-MOON MODEL
| From: American Science & Surplus
Features:- Phases & Eclipses. Make the Earth! Make the moon! Make a tree! Okay, only God can make a tree -- but you can take the plastic parts in this Earth Moon Model Making Kit and make a dandy 3-3/4" dia Earth and 7/8" dia moon.
- The first sits on a 3-3/8" pylon, the second sits on the end of a 5" arm and can be moved in a circular orbit around the Earth.
- You can then enhance the relief surfaces of both with the brush and paints in the kit (6 one-ounce pots of color, plus 2 pots of glow-in-the-dark paint), find a flashlight or other source of light (that would be what the manufacturer calls a "torch"), and follow the kit's suggestions for creating lunar and solar eclipses, moon phases, etc.
- For ages 7 and up.
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