SCIENCE TOYS What Do You Know Bingo, from EEBOO, includes facts that teach kids ages 5 and up about flora, fauna, and more. What Do You Know Bingo plays like regular bingo, and includes six game boards with 48 bingo cards illustrated by Melissa Sweet. The game is printed on high-quality, 90-percent recycled greyboard. eeBoo’s Natural & Earth Science Flash Cards include 48 illustrated flash cards featuring fun facts about mammals, marsupials, birds, bugs, sea creatures, and more. Each category is color-coded by a border design resembling marble, making it easy for kids ages 5 and up and their parents to focus on one category at a time.
Discover Electronics Kit, from SPARKLE LABS, includes everything kids need to learn the basics of electronics and make their own projects. It contains the most common electronics components as well as a prototyping breadboard so kids can get started right away. Easy, full-color diagrams teach kids how to bring their own ideas to life. The Discover Electronics Kit utilizes standard components, all of which can be used by beginner or advanced users. As kids learn, all of the parts in the kit are still useful in more advanced projects and can be expanded upon.
Science X Fueling Future Cars, from RAVENSBURGER, is a new automotive engineering kit that will get kids’ minds racing. It comes with all the tools kids ages 8 and up need to build their own electric MercedesBenz and steer their way through nine science-based activities. Young scientists will learn about fuel cells and other alternative energy sources for powering vehicles, as well as automotive engineering. Young archaeologists ages 8 and up can create their own fossils, excavate a Megalosaurus tooth, build a T-Rex skeleton, and more with the Science X Dinosaurs kit. This dino discovery adventure activity set includes the supplies needed to complete six science-centered adventures.
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Kids ages 3 and up can explore the world around them with the Clifford Animal Science Kit, from THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS CLUB. Emily Elizabeth, the narrator of the 20-page manual, guides young scientists through versatile experiments such as Animal Habitats, Edible Play Dough, Animal Track Cast, Animal Scavenger Hunt, Animal Fossils, Bug House, Camouflaged Animals, Animal Life Cycle, What Is in an Egg?, What Do Animals Eat?, Bird Feeder, and Habitat Diorama. This kit comes with reusable habitat stickers, a scavenger hunt chart with stickers, a bug house, 12 miniature animals, and more. Kids will feel like real scientists when they use the colorful lab tray, the measuring cup, and the magnifying glass to perform their experiments.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014