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Assemble it and discover the principle of working of the 4-speed Manual Gearbox.

• Experiment: the model comes with a Pocket Model’s Study Guide with a creation story and mechanism design as well as engaging and interesting tasks.
• Immerse yourself in Augmented Reality (AR), find out how the Gearbox is used in a car, and interact with it via the dedicated Ugears AR-application.

Learn how the GEARBOX works

The Gearbox is a stylised educational model, an interactive study guide to the mechanism, only for learning its essentials and principles of working. A mechanical gearbox is a reducer that provides speed and torque conversions from a motor to the driving wheels. After assembly, you can experiment with the Ugears manual Gearbox, by turns, choose I, II, III, or reverse with a kinematic pair of gears with different ratios and, rotating the actuator handle clock-wise, you can watch and control the rotation speed of the layshaft and drive shaft. In a Position “N” – idle in which both clutch gears of layshaft remain uncoupled and idling; the First Gear makes the layshaft and gears rotate with the lowest speed; the Second Gear lets the drive shaft along with the flywheel rotate with an average speed and the Third Gear allows the layshaft and all gears rotate with the highest speed. Switch on the Reverse gear and see how the driving clutch gear moves to the left towards gear “R” and connects to it transferring the rotation to the lower gear arrangement and propelling the layshaft and all gears to rotate in reverse.

When and who invented it

The invention of the gearbox belongs to the famous German engineer Karl Benz.

Usage

A gearbox is mainly used in the automobile industry as a part of the car transmission mechanism that transfers torque from the engine's shaft to the wheels.

Number of components: 120

Estimated time of assembly: 1-2 hour

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Assemble it and discover the principle of working of the Pendulum.

• Experiment: the model comes with QR-code to a Pocket Model’s Study Guide with a creation story and mechanism design as well as engaging and interesting tasks.
• Immerse yourself in Augmented Reality (AR), find out how the pendulum is used in a clock mechanism, and interact with it via the dedicated Ugears application.

Learn how the PENDULUM works

The Pendulum is a stylised educational model, an interactive study guide to the mechanism, only for learning its essentials and principles of working. The pendulum is one of the basic and most reliable time measuring mechanisms. Its working principle is based on the model's constant amplitude oscillation under the force of gravity (weight) and potential energy (tension force) of the rubber band. The rubber band powers the mechanism of the model and compensates for the pendulum's oscillations' kinetic energy loss. The device is animated by means of gear unit with a windup wheel.

The model has an anchor escapement controlling the frequency of oscillations, a weight, a scape-wheel, gearing, rubber band, ratchet, and pawl reducing operation error. The model has several means to control the frequency of oscillations: the weight of the pendulum bob, the vertical position of the weight on the pendulum, and the tension of the rubber band.

When and who invented it

The first study of the pendulum was implemented by Galileo Galilei, an Italian engineer in the end of the 16th century. He described the property of the pendulum to preserve the consistency of the oscillations. The first person to use a pendulum in a mechanical clock and ensure a steady rate was a Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens back in the 17th century.

Usage

Pendulums are mainly used in mechanical clocks as an element of a launch mechanism and the way to provide a steady rate. In the musical sphere, metronomes that have pendulums as their chief constructional element, help musicians practice playing to a regular tempo. Pendulums are also used in geological surveying, seismography, sports, and laboratory research in mechanics and physics.

Number of components: 92  

Estimated time of assembly: 1-2 hour

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Assemble it and discover the principle of working of the Three-digit Clicker-Counter

• Experiment: the model comes with a Pocket Model’s Study Guide with a creation story and mechanism design as well as engaging and interesting tasks.
• Immerse yourself in Augmented Reality (AR), find out how the Counter is used in a production line, and interact with it via the dedicated Ugears application.

Learn how the COUNTER works

The Counter is a stylised educational model, an interactive study guide to the mechanism, only for learning its essentials and principles of working. It registers repetitive actions. It is an integral part of a device called an “Odometer”. The model has three cylinder gears with numbers from 0 to 9 and a Geneva Drive. This combination allows you to see an interesting mechanical feature: when the reciprocating motion of the click-button using the Geneva Drive mechanism turns into the rotary motion of the cylinder gears with numbers. The Counter provides two options of data registering: click-button on the roof of its body, and a turn handle on its side. Pressing the click-button or turning the handle makes the Counter shift by one place. When the count passes 9, the Geneva Drive catches the next register cylinder and adds it to the count. Altogether, the three-digit display of the Counter can register values from 1 to 999. You can open the front panel of the counter and reset it manually. Try counting steps on your way home. Or how many people you meet on a stroll through the park. How about, the number of blue cars passing by your house during one hour? Count stairs at home, at school, or at a friend’s house.

When and who invented it

A counter, as a key part of the odometer mechanism, was invented by an Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria who lived in 10-70 AD. It measured the length of the path by counting the number of rotations of the wheel. Later, the counter was improved and completed with a reducer that reduced the number of the wheel's revolutions depending on the measuring system (miles, leagues, kilometers) and showed reduced data on the display.

Usage

These days, counters are used to count the number of passengers, visitors of different events, cars passing through certain check point, sets and scores in sport, items on a production line, etc

Number of components: 157

Estimated time of assembly: 1-2 hour

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Smithsonian Perfect Cast Museum Craft Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material in the 'mix and pour' bag and pour it into the molds

While it sets enjoy the fun, games and learning in the included activity booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the parts and set them onto the display background - now it's ready to show off on the easel

Smithsonian products bring fun and learning together by utilizing vibrant imagery and unique and relevant subject matter in a hands-on toy that truly engages a child!

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Smithsonian Perfect Cast Museum Craft Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material in the 'mix and pour' bag and pour it into the molds

While it sets enjoy the fun, games and learning in the included activity booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the dinosaur parts and set them onto the display background - now it's ready to show off on the easel

Smithsonian products bring fun and learning together by utilizing vibrant imagery and unique and relevant subject matter in a hands-on toy that truly engages a child!

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Eyewitness Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds

While it sets read all about space exploration in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the space craft and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Make a Space Shuttle, Command Module and Saturn V with this hands-on toy that truly engages a child;

proudly made in the USA!

for ages 6 years and older

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Eyewitness Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds

While it sets read all about sharks in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the sharks and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Make a Great White, Hammerhead and Thresher shark with this hands-on toy that truly engages a child;

proudly made in the USA!

for ages 6 years and older

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Eyewitness Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds

While it sets read all about soime of the incredible workings of human anatomy in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the skeleton parts and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Eyewitness Kits bring fun and learning together by utilizing vibrant imagery and unique and relevant subject matter in a hands-on toy that truly engages a child!

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Eyewitness Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds

While it sets read all about horses in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the horses and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Make a Clydesdale, thoroughbred and wild horse with this hands-on toy that truly engages a child;

proudly made in the USA!

for ages 6 years and older

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Eyewitness Fossilworks Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds

While it sets read all about what its like to be a paleontoligist discovering Fossils from the Paleozoic Era in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the fossils and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Make an Ammonite, Trilobite, Crinoid and Shark Tooth fossil with this hands-on toy that truly engages a child;

proudly made in the USA!

for ages 6 years and older

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Eyewitness Dinoworks Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey

First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds

While it sets read all about what its like to be a paleontoligist in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the dinosaur 'bones" and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Eyewitness Kits bring fun and learning together by utilizing vibrant imagery and unique and relevant subject matter in a hands-on toy that truly engages a child!

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Eyewitness Perfect Cast Casting Kits combine creativity, discovery, and learning in one exciting artistic journey First, follow the included directions to mix the Perfect Cast Casting Material and pour it into the molds While it sets read all about butterflies in the included illustrated booklet

Unmold your creation, paint the butterflies and glue the flat side to the included magnets for display on most metal surfaces

Make a Monarch, Painted lady, Red Admiral and Swallowtail butterfly with this hands-on toy that truly engages a child; proudly made in the USA!

for ages 6 years and older

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Interactive Notebook: Earth & Space Science is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive science notebooks. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for earth and space science. The lessons cover units of study in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. This interactive approach to diagramming science concepts gives students many opportunities to create models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. This workbook:

• -Helps students record, store, and organize essential information
• -Serves as a resource for review and test prep
• -Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information
• -Supports Next Generation Science Standards
• -Correlates to current national, state, and provincial standards

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The frenzied search for gold and the territorial rivalries of European monarchs provided the necessary catalysts for much early exploration and colonization in the New World. This entertaining and educational coloring book recreates detailed pictures of many key moments—when European explorers and settlers left historical footprints on the North American continent. Thirty–nine realistically rendered line drawings — many of them double-page spreads — depict historic events that span centuries of exploration — from the arrival of the Vikings in Vinland (ca. 1000 A.D.) to the establishment of colonies in Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts, and the exploration of the American Far West by Zebulon Pike and Jedediah Smith. Among the scenes captured by artist Peter Copeland are Columbus' ship Ni̴ña anchored off the Bahamian coast (1492), John Cabot exploring Canada's east coast (1497), Ponce de León in Florida (1513), Verrazano exploring the middle Atlantic coast (1524), Cortés' conquest of Mexico and overthrow of the Aztec empire (1519), Coronado exploring the Southwest (1540-1542), Francis Drake in California before completing his round-the-world voyage (1577-1580), the ill-fated Roanoke colony (1584-1587), Samuel de Champlain establishing the first permanent French colony in North America (1608) and 30 other excellent illustrations.

A fact-filled introduction and informative captions complete this carefully researched resource that will be welcomed by colorists, students, parents, teachers, and adventure-lovers of all ages.

Dover Original.

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The man most responsible for settling Kentucky, frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734–1820) spent most of his life in the wild, exploring unmapped spaces. This collection of 30 captioned, realistic drawings depicts, among other scenes, the famous American pioneer captured by Shawnees (1769), blazing a trail known as the "Wilderness Road" (1775), leading settlers to Kentucky (1779), serving in the Virginia Assembly (1791), traveling with his extended family to Spanish-held Missouri (1799), and volunteering to serve in the War of 1812. Dover Original. Learn More

These optically engaging designs — based on the complex, symmetrical patterns found in a kaleidoscope — invite young coloring book fans to complete eight different intriguing patterns. Each intricate creation releases a lovely glow when colored and placed in a window or near another source of bright light.

Dover Original.

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Painter, architect, scientist, inventor — Leonardo da Vinci ranks as history's consummate innovator. Consumed with a boundless desire for knowledge, he investigated technical challenges that were hundreds of years ahead of his time. The power of flight was a particular source of fascination for him, and his close studies of bird anatomy and movement informed his development of the ornithopter — a winged, human-powered aircraft.

With Leonardo's da Vinci's Flying Machine, you can create a fully working model of the inventor's amazing creation. This self-contained model kit features a 48-page book with details from Leonardo's notebooks plus full-color, easily joined components. Once assembled, the wings flap by turning a crank. Like the prototype, your model won't actually fly, but you'll have an amazing replica of one of the Renaissance genius's most famous futuristic inventions.

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The sand is in the paint! Create 3D sand art pictures with guided and blank boards for a completely open-ended activity. A fun, tactile art project. Mix your own colors of sand with the twist top containers.

Ages: 6 and above

Contents Include: 5 Sand Paints: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and White 12 Watercolors, 5 Art Creation Boards: 3 Blank and 2 Resist, 1 Texture tool, 1 Palette knife, 1 Paint Brush, Loose Sand and 2 Twist Top Containers with Fully Illustrated Instructions

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This activity-packed set will help plant the seeds of creativity in boys and girls! Inside is a 64-page book that features instructions for folding 12 different models, from butterflies to flowers.

Plus, 90 high-quality stickers make it easy to customize each creation.

And that's not all: 72 pre-printed sheets of origami paper are also included — many are perfect for coloring.

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The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Movie Tie-in Edition) By JOHN BOYNE.

"Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today

Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

Paperback | Published by Ember Oct 23, 2007 | 224 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult

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Corduroy 40th Anniversary Edition By DON FREEMAN

A picture book classic!

One of School Library Journal’s “Top 100 Picture Books” of all time (2012) One of the National Education Association’s ”Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children.

” Don Freeman’s classic character, Corduroy, is even more popular today then he was when he first came on the scene in 1968. This story of a small teddy bear waiting on a department store shelf for a child’s friendship has appealed to young readers generation after generation.

Paperback |  Published by Puffin Books  | 32 Pages | 8-7/8 x 7-1/8 | 2-5 years

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Take students in grades 5–8 on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Exploring Australia! This 48-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Map projects and hands-on activities engage students in learning about the physical, political, and human geography of Australia. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. This book aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

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Take students in grades 5–8 on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Exploring Africa! This 48-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Map projects and hands-on activities engage students in learning about the physical, political, and human geography of Africa. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level.

Aligned to Common Core State Standards, NCSS standards and national and Canadian provincial standards.

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Interactive Notebook: U.S. Constitution is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive notebooks. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for the study of the U.S. Constitution. The book features mini-lessons, correlating interactive notebook pages, and informational text reading selections. The lessons cover the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention, and the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution. This interactive approach to diagramming social studies concepts gives students many opportunities to create models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. Correlated to current national, state, and provincial standards. By Carson Dellosa/ Mark Twain Media

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