Hands-On Science Kits

This delightful title combines cradles, catapults and collisions with pendulum art to explore the science of motion.

For children ages 8 and up

Includes a beautifully illustrated 36-page science book with materials

18 Projects

• Explore collisions with a Newton’s cradle
• Build and aim a catapult
• Lift off with stomp rocket science
• Make the rocket go the farthest
• Collide collision carts
• Ram barriers with marbles and carts to explore momentum
• Paint with pendulums
• Explore elastic and inelastic collisions, kinetic and potential energy, momentum, circular motion and pendulums.

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You know the letters of the alphabet. Get ready for the Alphabet of the Universe! •Split water into rocket fuel •Pop hydrogen! •Hunt for naked protons •Flame test salts •Grow huge crystals •Act out the roles of electrons & protons •Model 3D electron orbitals 40-page science book with materials. Learn More

35 Activities •Capture a CO2 explosion •Squeeze an egg into a bottle •Grow crystals •Make candles •Freeze liquids into solids •Dissolve and filter solids •Dye a flower from the inside out •Change states of matter Ages 5 to 10 40 page science book with materials Candle making, water squirting, freezing thawing, glop, and mud pie experiments -- things every child should do to explore the matter of matter. A favorite among the award winning ScienceWiz™ kits. Creative Child Magazine Award Learn More

This kit has a beautifully illustrated 40 page book plus materials to make your own microscope slides.

It includes a high-powered clip-on microscope that converts a mobile device into a high performance microscope.

No focusing required.

View microscope slides directly on a digital screen. 200 to 400x optical resolution depending on your camera lens and the number of megapixels on your device.

This microscope will pair with a 2x optical lense on some front cameras to form a digital version of a compound microscope.

Zoom in, photograph and share your microscope slide images.

Prepare and view your own microscope slides:

• Stain onion cells on a microscope slide to view onion cells
• Prepare a slide to view leaf cells
• Stain and view a slide containing your own cheek cells
• Watch and record pond scum in motion Identify parts of the cell
• Discover what makes a cell, a cell
• Use bubbleology to understand the plasma membrane
• Explore the functions of the organelles inside an animal cell

This kit includes a breakthrough clip-on microscope that lets you observe and record in time-lapse video on a digital screen as you prepare a microscope slide step by step. Record as the nuclei of your cheek cells stain blue. No student microscope provides the large working distance ABOVE the slide that this microscope does.

For children ages 8 and up.

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Build an electric car without a battery; Explore the future now; Using an ultra capacitor, accelerate your car to race car speed; Includes instructions and materials to make an Ultra Capacitor Race Car; Instructions authored by Penny Norman, PhD. Ages 8+ Learn More

Teaching fractions doesn't have to be like pulling teeth! Your students will love these hilarious reproducible stories and follow-up problems that reinforce essential fraction skills: addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, decimals, ratios, and more. Great for reluctant math learners! Grades 3-6 88 pages Learn More

Get moving with rubber band power! Fly into physics fun with five models driven by an awesome rubber band powered propeller. Using ultralight plastic and bamboo parts, build a helicopter, fan boat, airplane, car, and catamaran. Learn how the elastic material stores energy and then releases it to move the models. From Thames & Kosmos. Ages 8+ Learn More

A clever Hybrid robot that operates on both battery and solar power

The Rover robot rolls along on solar power when the sun is shining When there is no sunlight, The Rover utlizes battery power.

Includes robot parts and detailed instructions

Requires 1 AAA battery (not included)

Recommended for age 5 years and up

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Experience the thrill of discovery as unearth a mystery from ancient history. A wonderful education kit which includes a block containing replica treasure from ancient history which must be dug out with special tool provided. This set contains replica coins of the Roman Empire. A must for the budding archaeologist.

Box measures approx: 18 x 5.3 x 21.3 cms

Please be aware that the coins that will be dug up in this set are plastic.

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Build and experiment with dozens of roller coaster models to make learning the physics of force, motion, and energy as fun as a day at the amusement park. Conduct an action-packed series of hands-on physics and engineering lessons with an easy, modular building system. Piece together the sturdy frame structures and then attach the flexible track to it to build and test endless roller coaster designs.

Experiment by varying the weight of the cars and varying the slope, length, and direction of the track. Get a practical introduction to many physics principles including gravitation, potential energy, kinetic energy, free fall, projectile motion, friction, centripetal force, velocity, acceleration, and more.

Conduct a series of engineering challenges: What is the tallest roller coaster you can build? How about the longest straightaway? Can you build a loop-de-loop? A large, full-color manual guides you through the model assembly and experiments with step-by-step illustrated instructions.

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Build an Amusement Park in Your Living Room!

Roller Coaster Challenge™

Thrill Ride Building Game

• Featured in Good Housekeeping
• ASTRA Best Toys for Kids Award Winner

In this thrilling engineering challenge, players get to build their very own roller coasters.

Start by choosing a challenge card and setting up the pieces to match.

Then, players use the remaining pieces to build a working roller coaster that meets the build conditions on their challenge card.

Roller Coaster Challenge incorporates elements of a logic puzzle, while also allowing for the creativity that stems from free-form building.

Once you have solved each challenge, you get to watch a real coaster car glide down the track, complete with dips, curves, and loops! 

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Excavate parts of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur skeleton from a mound of clay -earth-, then assemble it!

Each T-Rex kit includes unearthed block, excavation tool, brush, fun Kidz Quiz facts and instructions.

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Rocks, Gems & Geodes

36 Rocks to Start Your Collection

Kids will dig the world of earth science and geology!

Kick-start your very own rock collection with the 36 stones, then use the included crystal powder and mold to grow your own geode formation.

Collect rocks and conduct experiments, such as a scratch test and float test, to discover their hidden properties.

The fun doesn’t stop there - You’ll even learn how to make your very own rock tumbler.

Use the fact-filled book to keep exploring the world around you as you find more samples to collect

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Build an awesome, nine-inch-diameter, rolling robotic sphere and six other robot models. Drive your robots using the remote-control interface in the included app, which you can install on your tablet or smartphone. Or write programs for your robots using an easy, visual programming language in the app. The onboard sound sensor lets you program your robots to perform specific sequences of commands in response to the number of claps (or other very loud sounds) that it detects.

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 Build and program robots with this complete robotics engineering system.

Using sensors, motors, a core controller, and hundreds of snap-together building pieces, you can follow the instructions to assemble ten different robots. The versatile parts also allow you to make robots according to your own designs.

This fun robotics curriculum starts out with instructions for building simple robots, teaching you how the sensors can be used to control the robots. Build an ultrasound robot that can avoid obstacles, a drawing robot, and a touch sensor robot. Move on to more complex robots that have multiple functions, such as a ball-shooting robot, a crawling robot, and a grabbing robot. Build a robotic arm that can pick up objects, a butler robot, a robot that will turn toward a light source, and a cool scorpion robot.

After you have mastered all of the robotic models in the instructions, you will have the tools and knowledge you need to go on and build and program your own amazing robotic creations.

The robots can be controlled directly in realtime and programmed to perform series of commands using an easy-to-use, free downloadable app on iOS or Android® tablets and Windows PCs. The mobile app wirelessly connects to the core controller using a Bluetooth low energy connection. The PC app connects to the core controller via a USB cable. The app uses the open source visual block programming library Google Blockly to make coding fast and easy to understand.

A 64-page, full-color manual features step-by-step illustrated building instructions and instructions explaining how to program and operate all of the robot models.

From Thames & Kosmos. Ages 10+

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Robotics Smart Machines: Rovers & Vehicles

Robotics is a vast, thrilling, and sometimes overwhelming interdisciplinary field involving physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that lets them build eight motorized machines controlled by programs and an ultrasound sensor.

Kids code the programs using an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robot models via a wireless Bluetooth connection. The ultrasonic sensor works on the same principle as sonar. It sends out sound waves, which bounce off objects. The sensor interprets the echoes returning to it, and from this detects objects in the path of the sensor. Using the app interface, you can program the robots you build to behave based on the feedback coming from the ultrasound sensor.

Build a shy turtle robot that drives around and quickly avoids obstacles in its path. The friendly rover bot model first looks around for your hand and, once detected, moves toward it and follows it around. Construct an awesome desert explorer robot with wheels on legs; first it drives around, but when it detects an object in its range, it starts “walking” slowly toward it. Experiment with altering the program of your cute dancing robot so that the robot dances to the beat of a song you play for it. Set up an obstacle course and watch the scout rover use its ultrasonic sensor to navigate around the obstacles. A cool helicopter model spins its rotors and then raises its landing gear when you lift it off the tabletop. You can also assemble other fun robots including a dozer bot with a bulldozer blade and a scorpion robot with a stinger tail.

After you have learned how the technology works, you can build and program your own robots using the kit’s 233 building pieces. A full-color, 64-page step-by-step illustrated manual helps kids assemble all of the models and teaches them about robotics in the real world. The visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ motors to move at different times, different power levels, in different directions, and in response to the data from the sensor.

Requires a tablet or smartphone running iOS or Android. Check the app stores for compatibility and device requirements. Ages 8 & up. From Thames & Kosmos

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Robotics is a vast, thrilling, and sometimes overwhelming interdisciplinary field involving physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that lets them build eight motorized machines controlled by programs and an ultrasound sensor. Kids code the programs using an easy, visual programming app on a tablet or smartphone, which connects to the robot models via a wireless Bluetooth connection. The ultrasonic sensor works on the same principle as sonar. It sends out sound waves, which bounce off objects. The sensor interprets the echoes returning to it, and from this detects objects in the path of the sensor. Using the app interface, you can program the robots you build to behave based on the feedback coming from the ultrasound sensor. Build a humanoid robot that walks forward on two legs and pivots to avoid obstacles in its path. An awesome stag beetle model moves backwards or forwards in response to an obstacle, and opens and closes its pincers. 8 Experiments. Ages 8+ From Thames & Kosmos. Learn More

Build your own motorized vehicles and machines and control them with a wireless remote control unit. A unique six button infrared remote allows you to control three different motors simultaneously, moving each of them forward or in reverse, with easy-to-activate touch sensors. The three motors can be combined to make complex vehicles and machines in numerous configurations limited only by your imagination. Assemble ten models demonstrating different ways in which the motors can be used including a bulldozer, car, three-wheeler, crane, antique car, plow, folding car, formula one racer, three-blade dozer, and robotic arm. After you have built the models in the instructions, you can design your own remote control creations! The kit comes with three motors, remote control unit, battery holder, and building blocks. Collaborate with your fellow junior engineers to build fantastic and functional remote-control creations! The 48-page color instruction book included in this kit gives illustrated step-by-step instructions for the models to help children learn through play and develop their mechanical understanding, creative thinking skills, and hand-eye coordination. The 182 building pieces included in this set are compatible with those in all Thames & Kosmos Construction Series kits, Physics Series kits, Wind Power, and Hydropower kits. Learn More

Unicorns, clouds, and rainbows … oh my! Make your own delicious, fun gummy shapes using a gelatin mixture: Pour it into the included mold and concoct a spectrum of flavors and colors to personalize your unicorn, cloud, and rainbow-shaped gummy creations. You can even add citric acid to make sour gummies. Bonus: Learn about the scientific properties of natural polymers as you cook up these delicious treats! This kit includes all the food ingredients needed for a rainbow-gummy good time.

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Experience this sphere powered by the sun! The vanes in the Radiometer alternate in dark and light colors. When the light strikes these vanes it transfers heat to each one, but not at the same degree. The lighter vane reflects the rays and the darker vane absorbs the rays. The stronger the light, the more energy there is, causing the vanes to spin faster.

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The Big Idea

This programmable pet is a coder’s best friend! Kids can use a computer or tablet to code this four-legged friend and level up their coding skills! No coding experience? No problem! Start with drag and drop coding language Blockly, and level up to advanced Python coding! Code your pet to do cool tricks, change color, make and react to sounds, and express emotions! Kids can activate the code from their tablet or computer or step away from the device with the Code activator! Includes PYXEL A Coder’s Best Friend, a rechargeable battery, built-in user interface, and a Code Activator.

Psst…They’re Learning!

• Build early coding skills
• Enhance critical thinking
• Develop social & emotional skills

Cut to the Chase

• Includes PYXEL A Coder’s Best Friend, a rechargeable battery, built-in user interface, and a Code Activator
• Kids can command PYXEL the Coding Pet in Blockly and Python
• No internet connection is required! With Coding Pet’s password-protected WiFi, kids simply connect their WiFi-enabled tablet or computer to Coding Pet – they're never connecting to the internet
• Code Activator requires 2 AAA batteries, not included

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Easy-to-use, multi-sensory model uses a simple hand pump to demonstrate basic heart and pulmonary blood flow.

•Creates a memorable exploration of how the heart and lungs work together for oxygen exchange

•Features clearly labeled heart chambers, main artery, veins and lungs •Stays mess-free — liquid is sealed in

•Measures approximately 12"L x 11"W x 5"D

•Includes Activity Guide

•Grades 3+ From Learning Resources.

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Primary Science Set. Real science tools perfectly sized for little hands! Sets supports hands-on early science investigations. Colorful, durable set features measurement markings. Ten double-sided Activity Cards cover science process skills, living and nonliving things, physical science, senses and more. Includes beaker, magnifying glass, funnel, eyedropper, flask, tweezers, goggles, large 6" test tube with lid and stand, 2 small test tubes with lids and stand, plus Activity Guide. Grades PreK and up.

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Children are drawn to these colorful horseshoes like…magnets! Perfectly sized for smaller hands and perfectly magnetic for robust science studies. • Provides magnetically correct reading (1 foot north and 1 foot south) to support even the more advanced science studies • Features durable plastic construction. Assorted colors (selection may vary). From Learning Resources. Learn More