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Kids are born scientists.  From infancy, children seek out and explore, inquire and investigate, and learn from hands-on experience and experimentation how the world works. 

  For the young mechanic our Tin Can Robot kit recycles garbage into a fun, engaging science project. Let your creativity roam! Our Tin Can Robot kit comes with all the working parts to create a walking, wobbling, bog eyed robot.
             

Discover what energy is, how we make it now and what choices await us in the future. Build a solar car and join the race to save the planet! Learn about global warming.

• Build a solar racer
• Launch a supercapacitor car
• Make an electric car
• Spin a flywheel generator
• Build a battery to light a LED
• Do a kinetic chain reaction

Get moving with kinetic energy.
Store potential energy on your head!
Join the race to save the planet

For ages 8 & up.

         Help to save the enviroment. Learn the science of cleaning and reusing dirty water by conducting interesting water purification experiements. Build your own water filteration and desalination plant at your table top; disinfect water with solar power and more. This personal desalination kit demonstrates the scientific way to extract salt from sea water. Contains a plastic filter system, active carbon, sand, rock, filter paper and instructions. Just add a water glass! For ages 8+.
 

 Build a working wind turbine to harness power out of thin air. Wind is one of the most promising sources of clean, renewable energy available today. Wind energy has been used for centuries to pump water and crush grain in windmills, and is now increasingly being used to generate electricity to power our modern world.

From Thames & Kosmos
Ages 8+

      Robot on the go! This flexible little guy slides on smooth floor surfaces. A robotic mobile sweeper with dynamic sweeping strengths that can help remove dirt anytime you need. Assemble this robotic brush and let it clean up after you. Complete set includes battery case with wires, wooden brush, paint brush, googly eyes, motor, a set of plastic mechanical parts and instructions. Requires 2 AA batteries (not included). For ages 8+
  

Kids love experimenting. These over-sized test tubes are each stuffed with materials for 3 to 6 exciting, educational, and safe experiments. Science tubes also include a guide with easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams plus kid-friendly scientific explanations.

Add two 1-liter bottles to the contents of this kit and make a 10" x 9 1/4" catamaran. Launch it in the pool and watch it go! Requires two AAA batteries (not included)

from Toysmith

 

Solar System Puzzle

by Crocodile Creek

 

 A wonderfully-illustrated 50 piece floor puzzle of the solar system with chunky, over-sized pieces ideal for little fingers...a must for any space fan! Terrific for learning and playing and comes presented in a sturdy, mini-suitcase-style case with handle for storage

Ages 4+