Featured Thames & Kosmos educational STEM products, available online through RoboAchiever
www.roboachiever.com 203 430-3141 MINI VOLCANO Erupt a small model of a volcano with a chemical reaction to learn about how real volcanoes occur. Non-toxic chemicals included.
Item No. 551004
Price: $9.95 USD FINGERPRINT DETECTIVE Collect and analyze fingerprints to learn about scientific investigation. Use black powder to dust for fingerprints and look for genetic traits.
Item No. 551006
Price: $9.95 USD
COSMIC COLORS Create a colorful stained-glass planet and comet with translucent gels and black foam outlines. Learn how the primary colors mix to form more colors.
Item No. 551009
Price: $9.95 USD 3D CRYSTAL SHAPES Construct three-dimensional crystal models, coat them with a colorful crystalline layer, and then hang them as a mobile or window sun-catcher. Learn about how atoms form different crystal shapes.
Item No. 551011
Price: $9.95 USD
SOLAR THERMAL Solar thermal energy refers to the technology of collecting solar energy in the form of heat and making it useful, for example, by converting it into electricity or heating homes. Huge solar thermal towers are being installed in sunny places around the world to convert the sun’s heat into electricity via turbines powered by hot air. With this kit, you can perform 5 informative, exciting experiments dealing with solar thermal energy: you can build your own simple solar thermal updraft towers to collect the sun’s energy and use it to spin colorful turbines. Test the solar turbines in various configurations and compare the results from two different towers. Learn about thermal updrafts and solar thermal energy. Item No. 657123
$14.95 USD PHYSICS: FORCE&PRESSURE Balloons are more than just a lot of hot air! Learn about air pressure and force by doing lively experiments with air, water, and rubber balloons. See how air is not just emptiness, but has volume and takes up space. Try blowing up a balloon in a bottle. Make a simple water fountain to learn about air pressure. You’ll have a blast with balloons zooming, floating, popping, and flying all around the room! Item No 659271
Price: $14.95 USD FORENSICS FINGERPRINT Become a science sleuth as you practice the science of fingerprint detection and collection. Collect fingerprints by dusting them with black powder and lifting them with clear stickers. Design a fingerprint file card and take prints from your friends and family. Learn how the FBI classifies fingerprints.
WARNING: Science Education Set. This set contains chemicals [and/or parts] that may be harmful if misused. Read cautions on individual containers [and in manual] carefully. Not to be used by children except under adult supervision. Item No 658410
Price: $14.95 USD
SCIENCE OR MAGIC Science is often said to be magic, and magical phenomena are often explained with science. This kit gives kids a fun way to explore scientific occurrences and principles by doing exciting tricks and performances for an audience. The 20 easy tricks in this kit always have scientific explanations behind them, even if they appear to defy the laws of physics and nature. Fun demonstrations include: What falls faster, a feather or a heavy weight? Can you blow bubbles into two glasses of water at the same time? Can you make a water balloon rise up on its own from the bottom of a tub of water? Item No. 620714
Price: $34.95 USD SOLAR MECHANICS By building 12 models and conducting 30 experiments, you will learn how solar cells transform light into electrical energy, and how motors and mechanical devices can optimize the work done by this energy. You will build different types of vehicles and machines to demonstrate how gears can convert and transform power for different needs. There are 320 parts, which are also compatible with the other kits in our Physics line. The 64-page book offers illustrated instructions for the projects ITEM # 665068 $35.95
INTRO TO ENGINEERING Start by learning some engineering basics with experiments on levers, forces, and pulleys. Build simple devices using these basic components. Move on to explore engineering on land by building vehicles with wheels, such as a race car and a wind-up car. Next, investigate engineering with air and in the air by building a helicopter, a pinwheel, a parachute, a glider, a balloon rocket, and an airpowered carousel.
Item No. 602086
Price: $39.95 USD
THE HUMAN BODY For future physicians. Learn about the human body by doing experiments with your five senses that show you how your body works. By exploring the outside of your body with hands-on experiments, you can learn a lot about the inside anatomy of the body. Examine your fingerprints to learn how you are unique. Build a stethoscope and listen to your heartbeat to learn how your heart pumps blood, and listen to your gurgling tummy to learn how your stomach works. With the stethoscope, you can investigate how your ears hear with a listening game and a sound memory experiment. Item No. 602093
Price: $39.95 USD BOTANY: EXPERIMENTAL GREENHOUSE Budding botanists will love getting their hands dirty in this unique biological science experiment kit. Learn about plants and seeds by conducting experiments in a specially designed botanical laboratory with greenhouse domes. Assemble the domed greenhouses, complete with thermometers and ventilation. Construct an automatic watering system to keep your plants from getting too thirsty. Grow beans, cress, and zinnia flowers, and learn how each plant has different needs. Experiment with plant cells and capillary action. Learn how roots work to transport water and nutrients throughout a plant. Conduct experiments that demonstrate how plants need water, light, and heat to grow.
Item No. 635022
Price: $39.95 USD EARTH LAB This science kit gives you the tools and information to learn firsthand about the environmental problems burdening our planet and how we as a civilization can overcome these problems through sustainable practices and the sensible use of technology. Get an understanding of the rapid growth in world population. Explore the causes and consequences of the greenhouse effect with carbon dioxide tests. Experiment with heat transfer and insulation. Build devices to explore wind power, water power, and passive and active solar power technology. Become an “energy detective� and track down wasteful uses of energy at school and in your home. Item No 638016
Price: $39.95 USD
REMOTE CONTROL MACHINES Build your own motorized vehicles and machines and control them with a wireless remote control unit. Assemble ten models demonstrating different ways in which the motors can be used including a bulldozer, car, three-wheeler, crane, antique car, plow, folding car, formula one racer, three-blade dozer, and robotic arm. After you have built the models in the instructions, you can design your own remote control creations! The kit comes with three motors, remote control unit, battery holder, and building blocks. Collaborate with your fellow junior engineers to build fantastic and functional remote-control creations! Item No 5550004 $84.94 USD