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Newton's Cradle
$29.95
An educational demonstration of Newton's law of equal and opposite reaction and a classic executive toy.
Peep Inside Space
$19.95
If you peep into the night sky and see the Moon and twinkling stars, you're peeping right out into space! Find out what else is out there in this little book.
Planet Dig Earth
$29.95
Channel your inner geologist to excavate 8 crystals and rocks from the Earth and 1 from the Moon.
Use the wooden mallet, chisel and dust brush included to chip away at the Earth to discover buried crystals and fossils..
Includes:
- Clay Earth with 8 crystals and rocks buried inside
- Clay Moon with a piece of granite buried inside
- Wooden mallet, chisel and dust brush
- Keychain to display one of your crystals
Information and instructions booklet included
Professor Noggin's Earth Science
$19.95
Professor Noggin explores the earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole, and all parts in between. Learn all about canyons, caves, clouds, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes.. and more!
Sand Art
$34.95
Unique works of art at every turn!
Mesmerising and Relaxing. Sand Art uses the forces of gravity to create completely unique sandscapes every time you turn it. Can be used portrait and landscape.
Self-standing frame: 20 x 14.5 x 3.5cm
Sands of Time
$29.95
Sit back and relax as the ferrous sand slips through the glass towards the magnetic beechwood base. Turn it over again and again to experience a unique configuration each time.
Science Magic
$24.95
This experiment kit could be the perfect present for the little learner in your life. Suitable for ages 8 and older, this educational kit will provide hours of stimulating play. The perfect present for the coming holiday season.
Features:
- 4M toys
- Design: KidzLabs Scientific Magic 20-Trick Kit
- Colour: Multi
- Great educational tool
- Hours of fun whilst learning
- Science mad fun
- Fantastic present idea
- 20 magical science tricks and props in one box
- Perfect for kids to experiment with science and showmanship
- Some common household items are needed for some tricks
- Box contains props needed for performing tricks
- Includes items such as plastic cups, mini boat and 24-page instruction manual
- Materials: N/A
- Recommended for ages 8+ years
- Dimensions (approx. cm): N/A
- Assembly required: Yes
Space Torch Projector
$14.95
Shine the Torch Projector on your wall or ceiling and project the selected image up to 90cm wide. Includes keychain, so you can take it anywhere.
Contains 24 images over 3 interchangeable discs.
Static Electricity
$29.95
Science kit for young researchers
About this kit:
What is "Static Electricity"? It seems that many people are aware of the concept but don't really know how to scientifically explain it. Kids experimenting with this "Crazy Scientist Lab" kit will know everything there is to know about static electricity and enjoy amazing tricks and experiments! In this science kit, kids will be exposed to the fascinating world of invisible atoms that are all around us, some with electrical particles that create static electricity in certain objects. Using this electrical current, we will perform really cool experiments such as separating salt and pepper grains, sticking a balloon to the wall using electricity, building flying saucers and an electroscope, making Styrofoam balls dance and many more exciting experiments.
This science kit comes equipped with all the necessary equipment excluding some common household items. It includes a clear guide accompanied with photos of the experiments steps as well as fascinating scientific explanations and facts.
Stepping Into Science
$59.95
Begin a lifetime of scientific investigation and understanding with 29 fun experiments in five key areas: nature, physics, chemistry, air, and water.
Learn what plants need in order to grow, observe the clouds, see how water climbs, watch plants sweat, and investigate plant propagation. Discover how a magnifying glass enlarges, how colours 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 colours separate.
With a 48-page illustrated guidebook, Stepping into Science teaches science fundamentals with step-by-step, hands-on experiments, while also introducing children to the scientific method itself.
Super Science, Revolting Science and Glow Science kits
$9.95
Does your child love doing experiments and making things? Then this kit is the perfect combo that will keep them entertained for hours!
There are 3 kits on offer. Please make a selection at the checkout.
Magic Sand & Slippery Slime: Experiment with magical sand that stays dry even when it's under water, and make your own slime.
Revolting Science: Gross stomach-churning germs! This kit finds and grows the disgusting lurking around your house!
Glow Science: Glow-in-the-dark powder can be added to all kinds of things around the home to make them luminescent, and add water to special white powder to make it expand into faux snow - it feels just like the real thing! Everything you need is included, just add water! Comes with illustrated instructions, perfect for beginners.
For Ages 8+
The Surfing Scientist: 40 DIY Science Gizmos
$14.95
Spent all your pocket money again? There are heaps of great things you can make with stuff that's lying round the house - and they won't cost you a cent! Ages 7-12. Check out all the toys and gizmos you can make with simple household stuff! From Mexican jumping beans to a diving octopus and a popcorn lava lamp, you'll be whizzing and spinning like crazy. Watch out you don't get dizzy! Ages 7-12.
The Surfing Scientist: 40 Science Mind Benders
$14.95
Think you′ve got all the answers? ABC TV′s Surfing Scientist, Ruben Meerman, is back and this time he′s challenging the inner workings of your brain with 40 science and logic puzzles. How many will you solve? And how many will leave you stumped? Can you share this cake between eight friends with only three straight cuts? Can you connect the dots by drawing four straight lines without lifting your pencil? How can these four cars continue on their way at the same time without colliding? Can you fit a 50c coin through a 10c sized hole without tearing the paper? With loads of photos and fascinating facts, plus hints and solutions, you′ll stretch and test your mind with these fun and challenging puzzles. So what are you waiting for? Get into it! Ages 7+
The Surfing Scientist: 40 Super Human Body Tricks
$14.95
The more you learn about the human body, the more you realize that we all possess super powers. This book is jam-packed with forty experiments to try with your own body and discover your inner superhero. Apart from yourself, everything you'll need can be found lying around the house. Along the way, you'll: - Discover the electromagnetic radiation detectors in your head - Learn what it takes to be invisible - Freak your own brain out with bizarre illusions. 40 SUPER HUMAN BODY TRICKS is packed with tricks and experiments that involve the five senses, anatomy, physiology, nutrition and physical challenges, gadgets (like a reaction timer) to make, plus optical illusions.
Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Bedtime
$44.95
Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Bedtime transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Explore our solar system from the comfort of your cosy bedroom. Find out why the sky is blue. Fly around a black hole and peer inside! Learn why Jupiter has stripes
When astrophysicists Lisa Harvey-Smith isn't looking skyward, she is answering the smart questions of school kids. Her engaging storytelling in this colourfully illustrated book brings the night sky to life, giving amazing new perspectives to young explorers who are always asking, 'Why?'
Volcano Lava Lab
$44.95
Make your eruptions on a unique volcanic island. Learn about volcanic bombs, bubbling mineral springs, acid base chemistry, lava pools and being a volcanologist.
Feel like a real volcanologist watching as twin volcanoes erupt up close. Based on a real life twin crater volcanic island, you will create volcanic bombs, multiple eruptions, gushing lava fields, gas flows and colour changing mineral pools, all in perfect safety!
Learn about the awesome power of volcanoes through the planet changing science of volcanology.
Volcano Making Kit
$24.95
Make a 9.5cm tall solid volcano. Paint and decorate it. Amaze your friends and family with a bubbly fizzy lava eruption. It's an awesome science project and a cool desktop decoration.
Suitable for ages over 8
Not suitable for children under 3
When Galaxies Collide
$29.95
Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?
Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we can see what generations of people before us have wondered at and weaved stories around.
But all that will change. The Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us at 400,000 kilometres an hour.
When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth and its inhabitants. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life?
Learn how to watch this space.
Young Detectives
$29.95
Science kit for young researchers
About this kit:
This kit focuses on fingerprints. Children will experiment with producing their own fingerprint and classifying it. They'll learn how to extract invisible fingerprints from various surfaces using iron powder, talcum powder, adhesive tape and brushes - just like real crime scene investigators. The final experiment will be creating their own 3D finger replica using Alginate powder and plaster powder!
7 fun experiments inside!
This science kit comes equipped with the necessary equipment excluding some common household items. It includes a clear guide accompanied with photos of the processes as well as fascinating scientific explanations and facts.
Young Survivor
$29.95
Science kit for young researchers
About this kit:
Darwin once talked about 'Survival of the Fittest" so you better be fit to survive! A survival situation is not a game when your life is on the line, but it is SUPER COOL to learn survival techniques: learning how to distil and purify water, how to generate water from plants, how to light fire without matches, how to build a solar stove, to build a sundial, a compass, learn Morse code, and much more. Over a dozen experiments in this kit. This is one kit we wish you'll never have to use in real time, but if you ever need it, you'll thank God that you had it!
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