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We're Just Testing The Waters...

before we dip our tongues into it. You might want to, too. Try Watersafe® Well-Water Test Kit, a 10 parameter, single-use kit made for testing well-water or city water. Contains tests that will detect coliform bacteria, pesticides, nitrates, lead, iron, nitrites, pH, chlorine, copper and hardness. Includes an instruction manual and EPA drinking water standards. Easy to use, with results on the spot.

93587 WATER TEST KIT
$25.95 EACH

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Soil Test Kits

The budding home scientist and horticulturist will both delight in the ease with which this self contained soil test kit brings discovery. The kit measures not only ph., but also Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potash content and contains material for 40 tests. Since these are the essential ingredients affecting plant nutrition, we see a science project in the making: experimental plant growth in soils with different amounts of acidity and/or nutrients. From Luster Leaf(tm), the kit is entirely self contained and includes complete instructions for use and explanations. Be careful, please, the kit does have chemicals and should not be used by young children without supervision.

88690 MULTI SOIL TEST KIT
$14.95 EACH

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Jolly Green Science

Warning!  WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Green Science kits go environmental, for fun and edification. You pick from Solar Science, which lets you make your own little solar oven and water heater or Clean Water Science, which includes tabletop experiments in water filtration, desalinization, basic distillation and solar pasteurization. You get Instructions, plus a plethora of parts. You add a few household items. From KidzLabs® Fun Science Projects.

93891 CLEAN WATER SCIENCE
$13.50 EACH
93892 SOLAR SCIENCE FUN
$12.95 EACH

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Pond Test Kits

Just what the ecologist ordered to ensure a healthy pond for fish and plants! The "Pond Test Kit" includes pH level test, it will also tell you the pond's Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate levels. It provides a broad read on the status of the fish pond and lily pad home. Of course, you can use it as part of a science project, tracking down pollutants and explaining pond ecology!! Simple to use, with full instructions. Kit includes 4 Color Comparators, 40 test capsules (10 each for pH, Nitrite, Nitrate, and Ammonia).

89437 POND TEST KIT
$17.95 EACH

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COOLER THAN MONKEYS

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Triops: way cooler, bigger and more active than sea monkeys. They're dinosaur shrimp, leftovers from some 200 million years ago. Don't eat them; just grow them and enjoy this bizarre & ancient display of nature! In the kit you get a kidney-shaped tank 2-3/8" tall x 8-1/2"x 5-3/4", a very informative instruction booklet, and a packet full of triops eggs and food. In the starter pack/refill pack you get tripos eggs, food, conditioner and directions. Add the eggs to water and watch them go; they'll hatch in a day and reach 1" to 2" or more in a few weeks. Really easy to do, and really cool too.

91047 TRIOPS KIT
$11.95 EACH
94203 TRIOPS STARTER/REFILL PACK
$4.95 EACH

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World's Smallest Terrariums

Terraria? You decide. Then you pick a 2-1/2” tall plastic egg-shaped terrarium filled with “sprouting mixture” and the seeds for either a eucalyptus plant, an asparagus fern or an insect-eating hooded pitcher plant. Each sprouts in a week or two on a southern or eastern-facing windowsill and then can be moved into a larger terrarium, we’re assured.

must go 39675 EUCALYPTUS EGG
$2.00 EACH (was $3.95)
39677 FERN EGG
$3.95 EACH
39678 PITCHER PLANT EGG
$3.95 EACH

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Good Moon Rising

Put this on the bedroom wall, and they'll think you hung the moon. Really. The Moon In My Room" is a detailed convex moon, 10" dia x 3" thick at the center, from Uncle Milton®. It will turn itself on in a darkened room (it's night-light bright, like the real moon) and run automatically through all (12) phases in 5-second intervals, or in manual mode with you at the remote control. The lamp takes (4) "AA" batteries, the remote takes (2), and you're buying. Includes a 15-minute audio CD tour of the moon, and has (3) slotted mounting holes on, you should pardon the expression, the dark side of the moon.

93592 MOON IN MY ROOM
$34.95 EACH
 

Bird Yurp

Raptor vomit. Okay, owl pellets. Common barn-owl pellets actually, but don't call them common to their face. You get (2) pellets, each with a (usually) complete rodent skeleton that the owl couldn't digest, plus a small pair of rubber gloves, a pair of 5" plastic tweezers, a 6" long pointed stick and an 8-page fact sheet to help you reassemble said skeleton. Regurgitated in the USA.

94106 OWL PELLETS
$9.75 EACH

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Carnivore In A Pot

You supply the pot, we'll supply a dozen Venus Fly Trap seeds and a little sack of soil in a 4-3/8" x 2" dia plastic growing tube, plus an instruction sheet on the care and feeding of everyone's favorite meat-eating foliage. Gestation is about (14) weeks, so order early if you're planning a birthday surprise for someone.

93010 VENUS FLY TRAP
$7.95 EACH

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Physics Workshop

Warning!  WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Why is it easier to balance on a bicycle when you're moving than when you're stopped? How do you build a hammer machine? Explore the science of energy and matter with the Physics Workshop from Thames & Kosmos, an excellent kit for anyone eight or over. A very well-written 64pp instruction book guides you through (36) different building projects and (37) different experiments, using the (305) pieces that come in the kit, the single "C" battery that you provide to power the DC motor that's included and, occasionally, a few common household items.

93113 PHYSICS WORKSHOP
$54.95 EACH

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The Home Genetics Kit

Warning!  WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Play with your DNA for fun and profit. Ok, for fun and edification. From Thames and Kosmos, the Genetics & DNA Experiment Kit includes a 48-page color booklet outlining (20) experiments on genetic material, heredity, chromosomes and genetic engineering. Includes test tube and stopper, a funnel, filter paper, pipette, measuring cup, wooden stick, red and white chips, chromosome puzzle with fingerprint cards, a Petri dish, vial of agar, wooden spatula, small safety goggles, and a bottle to store denatured alcohol in. (You add that and a few household items.) For ages 10 and up.

94061 THAMES AND KOSMOS 20-EXPERIMENT GENETICS KIT
$32.50 EACH

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