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The Big Little Artist's Set
Excellent starter or traveler's acrylic paint set. Made in the UK, the (28) pieces pack inside a 15" x 10-3/8" x 2-1/8" wooden carrying case and include: (12) 0.4 oz tubes of nontoxic acrylic paints (white, lemon-yellow, yellow-ochre, scarlet, violet, blue, green, sap green, burnt sienna, burnt umber, black, and red); (2) #6 and (2) #2 brushes; mixing tray; art gum eraser; pencil sharpener; various pencils; and a palette knife and spatula. Other places, the paints alone would cost more than the kit.
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37966 PAINT BOX SET |
Catch Some Rays
And teach a kid (8 and up) the basics of solar power. This excellent educational kit comes with (9) 0.5VDC solar cells pre-wired in sets of (3) and mounted in a 5" x 4" x 7/16" black-plastic frame with screw terminals on the bottom. The kit includes a 1.5VDC motor with leads and a mount, a fan blade and (4) plastic discs from 5/8" dia to 2" dia for mounting on the motor shaft, a 1.5V incandescent bulb with leads, a sound module with leads, and graphic cards to mount on the discs. Comes with a 14-page instruction/experiment booklet, including info on increasing voltage and amperage, powering battery charges, radios, games, etc. Lots of science project potential. "Heuristic as all get-out," Jarvis said when he saw it.
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92923 SOLAR KIT |
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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.
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88690 MULTI SOIL TEST KIT |
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Bonehead
Well, headbone, actually, and this one ain't connected to anything. A life-sized skull, 6.5" tall x 6" long x 5" wide, made of tough foam with a hard plastic covering, and with a movable, composition jaw attached. Finished to an antiqued, bone-like patina for your skull-viewing pleasure.
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91799 LIFE SIZED SKULL |
It's a Little Gem!
Actually, it's a set of (36) different little polished gemstones and minerals from around the world, all identical sizes (1/2" x 3/8" x 1/8" thick), mounted and identified by name and origin on an 8" x 10" card. Super nice at a super price, for teachers, designers or jewelry makers. The set includes amazonite, amethyst, aventurine, black obsidian, blue lace agate, buttermilk jasper, carnelian, Dalmatian dacite, dumortierite, fancy jasper, fluorite, gold stone, hematite, howlite, jadeite, lapis, leopard skin jasper, mahogany,obsidian, moss agate, nephrite, Picasso jasper, orange calcite, picture jasper, rainbow jasper, rose quartz, rhodonite, rock crystal, rhyolite, red jasper, snowflake obsidian, sodalite, serpentine, tiger eye stone, turquoise and unakite.
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92883 SAMPLE GEMSTONE |
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Filthy Lucre
For archeologically minded numismatists, now comes the "Dirty Old Coins" kit, complete with (5) genuine, hand-struck ancient coins from 1,500 to over 2,000 years old, all with their own authentic dirt and ancient schmutz still attached. All "Made in the Roman Empire. Assembled in the U.S.A." You get a 12pp instruction booklet, a PC or Mac-compatible CD-ROM coin image database for identification, a stiff brush, double-lens magnifier, and cleaning and de-corrosion fluids. Most coins will be worth a few dollars, the supplier says, but some rare finds could be worth "hundreds or even thousands." Plenty of fun either way.
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93364 DIRTY OLD COINS |
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Sunprint® Kit
Sunprints (or cyanotypes, or photograms) are everyone's favorite photo-sensitivity experiment, from third-graders to graphic artists and fine artists. You pick: The Sunprinters are a dozen 3-15/16" square sheets of photosensitive paper, an acrylic backing sheet and instructions. The large Sunprint Kit has (15) sheets of 12" x 7-3/4" photosensitive paper plus a clear acrylic sheet of the same size. Great for classroom demonstrations, and can be used to make prints from photo negatives as well as interesting effects from opaque or translucent objects. All you add is sunshine and water.
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Habi-Bat
A DIY bat habitat. Build your own wooden country house for the world's finest skeeter-eaters. This 6-piece kit is unfinished pine and will result in a bat house that measures 17-1/2" tall x 5-1/2" wide x approx 4-1/2" deep. Comes with nails; you add wood glue and a hammer (and the bats) for this kid's first project from Woodcraft®.
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89626 BAT HOUSE KIT |
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Bridges To Burn
Or break, actually, as an heuristic exercise. Here's a classroom-full of bridge-building supplies based on the Illinois Institute of Technology's national bridge-building contest. Each kit contains enough balsa wood pieces and glue to supply (24) budding engineers or physics students with what it takes to test their skills at wooden bridge construction. Includes a 12pp teacher's guide with info about (6) bridge styles and (8) types of trusses, (24) rules/instruction sheets for students, (360) pieces of 1/8" square x 24" long wood, and (24) bottles of white glue. Among the most engaging and popular classroom projects in the country, it's designed for grades 7-12.
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93359 BRIDGE KIT |
Pretty Little Dragonflies
In colorful, flexible kaolin. Each package contains (3) different models of dragonflies, each approx 1-1/2" long x 1-1/2" wingspread. Equally appealing to entomology fans or crafters or jewelry makers. Our package nets you (9) dragonflies total.
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37729 DRAGONFLIES |
Look! It's Leo!
This is one slick motorized solar system and planetarium from Educational Insights®. Make assembling it an educational exercise. Demonstrate how the planets circle the sun. The 4" dia sun is yellow plastic, lit with a krypton bulb. The planets are colored, reasonably proportional given their actual sizes, and marked with their symbols. They ride on black metal arms that disappear in the dark. The helpful instruction manual suggests activities, and includes a heliocentric longitude chart. Use it with the degree markings on the black-plastic base to show the positions of the planets on different dates. Replace the top half of the sun with the clear dome imprinted with labeled Northern-hemisphere constellations, and project them onto the walls and ceiling of your darkened classroom. About 9" high, with Pluto extending 15" from the center, and the other planets hanging out in their respective order. Comes with an AC adapter, but not with the (4) "C" batteries it needs. For grades 3 and up, and not for kids under three years of age. (Do you want to have to tell an E.R. nurse he ate Uranus?)
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91930 SOLAR SYSTEM |
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