
A straight edge with an inner enlightenment option. Seek Satori while you're drawing lines with this 9" long triangular clear-acrylic ruler filled with green, blue and pink wave-action fluids in (3) separate chambers.
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37489 TRI-COLOR RULER |
Cool kit to introduce the beginner (age 10+) to the fabulous world of electronics. You will learn the basics of putting together circuits through over 50 projects building actual devices like an alarm, a radio, a metal detector and much more. The simple but complete instructions explain voltage, current resistance etc. The kit is a giant "breadboard" and wires that can be connected to form the circuits as explained in the instructions…and all without soldering! A fabulous educational item at a fabulous surplus price!!
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29781 ELECTRONIC PLAYGROUND |
Forgive the misspelled title, this is one of the best educational kits that we have! Loaded with magnets, wires and a miscellany of other things (but no battery!) it has everything needed to perform over 30 experiments, build games and generally have hours and days of educational fun! The thirty page illustrated instruction/explanation booklet is complete for self- instruction. Ages 8 and up will have a ball!
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88776 KIT ELECTRO-MAGNETIX |
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Plus, of course, the one you already know how to make, but imagine how sick your kids are of that one. This highly origamian, 120pp book has the plans for (25) ingenious paper airplanes, including some stunt fliers. Our favorite is The Flying Pig because you can make "when pigs fly" jokes at meetings and then use the agenda to construct it. Written by David Mitchell for PRC Publishing.
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93160 PAPER AIRPLANES |
From Lucent Books' series "Endangered Animals and Habitats," these hard-cover books, all 112pp, are heavily illustrated with B/W photos and drawings, and geared for a high school or bright junior high audience. Originally priced at over $20, they are dense with information, and include good indexes and bibliographies. You pick from among "Frogs and Toads”, “The Wetlands," and "Penguins."
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37678 "FROGS & TOADS" | |
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37681 "PENGUINS" | |
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37680 "THE WETLANDS" |
If they write on the windows, maybe they won't write on the walls. These Crayola® Window washable markers are for budding stained glass artists, or anyone who likes to post notices or paint on glass. The nice bright colors wipe right off. (They wash off walls, too, pretty much, but we don't suggest it.) You'll get (3) markers of each color (white, blue, green and yellow), 5-1/4" long x 9/16" dia, with sharpish points and wide edges for shading.
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11550 CRAYOLA® MARKERS |
Our nice little household/office driver set is from Tool Time® (not the TV show) and includes (8) 5-1/4" long screwdrivers that can be used alone or inserted into a larger, 4-1/2" long rubberized handle for more leverage. Inserts include slotted heads at 1/8", 3/16", 1/4"; Phillip's #0, 1, and 2; a tack puller; and an awl. The stand-up holder also has a little hook driver, and the whole thing is covered by a transparent plastic hood. Handy.
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37730 DRIVER SET |
Are we the Parents' Pal or what? No household with normal school-age children (ages 9-12) can afford to be without Sterling Publishing's 112pp hardcover book, "Last-Minute Science Fair Projects." Ten of them take "a week or two," (13) take "a few short days," but fully (22) projects can be completed in under (24) hours, a few in mere minutes. And yes, most everything you need is somewhere in the house so you won't need to find an all-night hardware store. Bonus: No baking-soda volcanoes!
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93355 LAST MINUTE PROJECTS |
No reason to neglect your education while you’re playing blackjack. Just use our special heuristic playing cards and you’ll learn something, even if you do lose your shirt. The Elemental cards are a double deck, (104) cards plus (4) jokers in a plastic case. In addition to the standard playing card values, the decks cover the (up-to-date, 2006) periodic table of elements. Each card includes one element's atomic number, symbol, series, melting and boiling points, period/group, uses, est. atomic weight, standard state, and the element's name in English. The Bones cards are a deck of (52) plus (2) jokers covering the human skeletal system, with names and full-color illustrations, and yes, the four of clubs is connected to the five of clubs.
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93185 ELEMENTAL CARDS | |
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93408 HUMAN BONE CARDS |
This comes to you as a 10-1/2" x 7-1/4" full-color sheet magnet with the periodic table on it. You snap it apart into 11/16" x 9/16" individual element mini-magnets. Play "name the missing elements" with students, or use it as a chemical jigsaw puzzle.
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93416 PERIODIC MAGNETS |
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