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MAGIC KITS

MAGIC KITS

550039 AGES 8+ MSRP: $29.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 10 PIECE COUNT: 23 MANUAL PAGES: 12 Cocoa-Mint Dream? Citrus Creamsicle? What will your designer perfume creation be? Follow your nose through the candy shop as you explore the science and art of making perfumes. Build your personalized fragrances, choosing from the essences of peppermint, chocolate, vanilla, lemon, cinnamon, and cotton candy. Decorate your workstation and perfume bottles with the included stickers. Learn about how your nose and brain work together to perceive smells. The full-color manual is packed with information about the biology of smell, the chemistry of scents, and the history of perfumes.

YUMMY RAINBOW LIP BALM LAB

550040 AGES 8+ MSRP: $29.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 10 PIECE COUNT: 27 MANUAL PAGES: 16 Mix up a rainbow of mouth-wateringly delicious lip balms and lip glosses. Experiment with a vibrant spectrum of colors and flavors to create your own personalized lip products. The ingredients include cosmetics-grade red, blue, and yellow dyes; lip-smacking strawberry, banana, and grape flavors; shimmering fluid for the lip gloss; as well as the base oils and waxes for the balms and glosses. Decorate with the included stickers. Explore the biology of skin and lips and the chemistry of lip balms and glosses. A full-color manual guides you through the process of making lip balms and glosses, and provides detailed information about the science behind these products. Thoroughly tested to the highest standards for cosmetic and toy safety.

ORBITING SOLAR SYSTEM

550037 AGES 6+ MSRP: $29.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 1 PIECE COUNT: 59 MANUAL PAGES: 8 Build a mechanical model of the solar system including the sun and eight planets (also known as an orrery), wind it up, and watch the planets revolve around the sun. Assemble using snap-together plastic parts to learn how the gears and wind-up mechanism work to spin the model. Detail each planet with colorful, realistic-looking printed planet graphics. Discover how a special type of gear called a planetary gear is used to simulate the mesmerizing motion of the solar system. Learn about the order of the planets, their relative sizes, their rates of revolution around the sun, and other planetary facts. Bonus: There’s a built-in expansion slot in case the mysterious Planet Nine is discovered! This kit includes full-color step-bystep illustrated assembly instructions.

FUN & EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY KITS

GENETICS & DNA LAB

665007 AGES 10+ MSRP: $31.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 20 PIECE COUNT: 40 MANUAL PAGES: 48 Head into the lab for an in-depth investigation of genetics, the branch of biology focused on heredity and variation in organisms, and DNA, the acid that holds the blueprints for life. See genetic material with your own eyes as you isolate the DNA from a tomato in a test tube. Investigate inheritance and learn how traits are passed down from parents to children. Learn about dominant and recessive genes and play inheritance games to determine how traits will be expressed.

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

665005 AGES 8+ MSRP: $34.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 35 PIECE COUNT: 37 MANUAL PAGES: 48 Astonish yourself with optical illusions and amazing visual phenomena as you explore human perception and the physics of light. Experiment with light and the color spectrum by building a color wheel, a fiber optic peacock, and diffraction glasses. Learn how the eye and a camera are similar and how they are different. Build a camera obscura and pinhole glasses. Experiment with spatial vision and depth perception with 3D glasses and an Ames room model.

550047 AGES 8+ MSRP: $32.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 6 PIECE COUNT: 133 MANUAL PAGES: 52

Build six awesome robots — all that move without any batteries or electrical power. The secret behind these fascinating machines is one of the oldest power sources in the world: wind! A full color manual guides you to assemble six models one at a time from over 130 pieces. Build a big wheel tricycle, quadruped, soaring machine, drilling monster, walking robot, and even a wind-powered yacht. To make them go, assemble your own hand-powered wind generator. As you go, you will learn about how gears transmit power and torque. Also learn about wind as a power-generating technology, past, present and future. Easy, snap-together assembly requires no glue. The kit includes step-by-step illustrated instructions.

• 6-in-1 engineering kit: build six wind-powered models and a handheld wind generator. Start cranking the generator and watch them go! • Learn about gear ratios and wind technology • No batteries or electricity required

CANDY CHEMISTRY

665003 AGES 10+ MSRP: $35.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 25 PIECE COUNT: 16 MANUAL PAGES: 48 Explore chemistry as you cook up candies and chocolates in the kitchen! Perform a number of sweet experiments and learn important physical science principles related to candy and cooking. Gain experience with measurements and conversions, volumes, and weights. Investigate the chemistry of gummy bears. Make gummy candies, chocolate shapes, and hard sugar candy using the special tools included: plastic and metal molds, candy thermometer, spatula, dipping fork, and more.

CHEMISTRY C500

665012 AGES 10+ MSRP: $35.95 CASE PACK QTY: 6 EXPERIMENTS: 28 PIECE COUNT: 18 MANUAL PAGES: 48 Learn about reactions between solids, liquids, and gases. Discover the colorful effects of acids and bases. Perform astonishing "magic" tricks for your friends. Make fizzy and foamy reactions. Write messages with invisible ink. Investigate metals and salts in electrochemical experiments with a 9-volt battery (not included). Learn for yourself how chemistry goes far beyond textbooks and laboratories to explain occurrences that happen around us every day.

CLIMATE & WEATHER

665006 AGES 10+ MSRP: $36.95 CASE PACK QTY: 5 EXPERIMENTS: 23 PIECE COUNT: 42 MANUAL PAGES: 48 The state of Earth’s atmosphere affects us all, which explains why the weather is one of the most popular topics of conversation and scientific study. With 23 handson experiments, you can investigate specific weather phenomena as well as the climate system in general.

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