Begin a lifetime of scientific investigation and understanding with 25 fun experiments in five key areas: nature, physics, chemistry, air, and water.

Learn what plants need to grow, build a barometer, see how water climbs, watch plants sweat, and investigate plant propagation. Discover how a magnifying glass enlarges, how colors mix, how static electricity attracts, how sundials tell time, and how a motion picture works. Investigate air pressure, air flow, hovercraft, paper airplanes, and suction. Write secret messages, float a paper clip, blow super bubbles, observe capillary action, and test displacement. Build a soap-driven boat, mix oil and water, experiment with evaporation, paint with sugar, and watch a balloon inflate itself.

With a 48-page guidebook, Stepping into Science teaches science fundamentals with step-by-step, hands-on experiments, while also introducing children to the scientific method itself.

 

Ages 5 and up.

 

TK602079	Stepping Into Science (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$30.99
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The twelfth kit in the Little Labs line, Intro to Engineering welcomes young children to the field of engineering with 25 experiments and building projects in five sections. By engaging in hands-on activities, children will learn how engineers apply their scientific and technical knowledge to design machines and devices.

Start by learning some engineering basics with experiments on levers, forces, and pulleys. Build simple devices using these basic components.

Move on to explore engineering on land by building vehicles with wheels, such as a race car and a wind-up car. Next, investigate engineering with air and in the air by building a helicopter, a pinwheel, a parachute, a glider, a balloon rocket, and an air-powered carousel. Then, build a diving bell, a sailboat, and a paddle boat to experiment with engineering in water.

Finally, find engineering in your own home with experiments modeling the telephone and television.

With a 48-page guidebook, Intro to Engineering teaches engineering fundamentals with step-by-step, hands-on experiments and building projects.

 

Ages 5 and up.

 

TK602086	Intro to Engineering (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$30.99
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Learn about the human body by doing experiments with your five senses that show you how your body works. By exploring the outside of your body with hands-on experiments, you can learn a lot about the inside anatomy of the body.

Examine your fingerprints to learn how you are unique. Build a stethoscope and listen to your heartbeat to learn how your heart pumps blood, and listen to your gurgling tummy to learn how your stomach works. With the stethoscope, you can investigate how your ears hear with a listening game and a sound memory experiment.

Test your lung capacity to learn about how your lungs work. Examine your diet and your digestive functions to learn how your body processes nutrients to give you the energy to do more experiments!

Try a blindfolded exercise to find out about hand-eye coordination. Take a tickle test to learn about your skin and sensory receptors. Monitor your pulse to learn about your circulatory system. Follow your nose in a smell memory game to learn about your sense of smell. Take a blindfolded taste test to learn about your tongue.

Try some balancing exercises to explore your muscles and bones. Discover how your ears play a role in your balance. Construct a magic telescope, spin an optical illusion top, and hold a staring contest to see how your eyes work.

Relate your experiments back to human body systems, including the internal organs, skeleton, muscles, and the circulatory system, with clear and accurate anatomical illustrations.

With a 48-page, full-color illustrated guidebook, this kit teaches human biology fundamentals with step-by-step, hands-on experiments.

 

Ages 5 and up.

 

TK602093	The Human Body (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$30.99
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Budding botanists will love getting their hands dirty in this unique biological science experiment kit. Learn about plants and seeds by conducting experiments in a specially designed botanical laboratory with greenhouse domes. Assemble the domed greenhouses, complete with thermometers and ventilation. Construct an automatic watering system to keep your plants from getting too thirsty. Grow beans, cress, and zinnia flowers, and learn how each plant has different needs.

Experiment with plant cells and capillary action. Learn how roots work to transport water and nutrients throughout a plant. Conduct experiments that demonstrate how plants need water, light, and heat to grow.

Discover the strength of a bean and how leaves sweat. See why grass grows back after it is cut and how cuttings can grow roots. Germinate fruit and vegetable plants from the seeds in your kitchen.

Grow a flower garden. Make tiny plaster bugs to decorate your garden. Collect seeds with your socks, and grow a funny grass head. Make leaf and bark rubbings. Learn how you can force budded branches to bloom in winter.

With a 48-page, full-color illustrated guidebook, this kit teaches botany fundamentals with step-by-step instructions for the hands-on experiments as well as growing information for many common plants.

 

Ages 5 and up.

 

TK635022	Botany: Experimental Greenhouse (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$30.99
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Experiment with wheels, gear ratios, and energy transmission by building tricycles, bicycles, cars, and motors. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK606213	Cars & Gears (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Build cranes and learn how they lift heavy loads at construction sites. Experiment with different types of cranes and pulleys. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK606510	Cranes & Pulleys (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Learn how plants germinate from seeds, how they grow, what they need to grow, what they produce, and how their roots, stems, and leaves work. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK602130	Plant Science (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Investigate weather with experiments on wind, rain, storms, clouds, rainbows, temperature, evaporation, pressure, and more. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK606114	Weather Science (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Experiment with additive and subtractive colors, mixing pigments, and the color wheel. Mold your own colored sidewalk chalk. 20-page color guidebook.

 

TK606411	Colorful Science	$13.99
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Learn about animals in your backyard and parks by investigating their natural habitats and tracks. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK606312	Animal Science (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Learn why some things float while others do not, what buoyancy means, and how propellers and sails work by building different boats and watercraft. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK606619	Boats & Buoyancy (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Learn how to use a compass, read a map, find your way in nature, and work with other navigational tools and methods. 16-page color guidebook.

 

TK606718	Navigation Science (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Learn about mechanical physics by building simple machines such as levers, gears, and pulleys. Discover force and motion. 20-page color guidebook.

 

TK602123	Physics & Forces (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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Explore outer space by building a solar system, making moon craters and constellations, launching a rocket, and testing to see which planets could support life. 20 pages.

 

TK606916	Stars & Planets (On Back Order Until Late October 2011)	$13.99
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