What every child should know about light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum! This multiple award-winning kit will teach children how to:

• Bounce and Bend Light
• Construct a Kaleidoscope
• Make a Simple Microscope and telescope
• Diffract with Feathers
• Split, Spin and Subtract Colour
• Mold Lenses
• Box a Camera Obscura
• Capture a Shadow

The award-winning artwork of Art Huff provides clear, step-by-step directions. Hundreds of children tested these materials with Penny Norman (Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley) and Ann Einstein (M.A.T Berkeley School District). The result if this delightful, self-contained book/kit which uses hours of fun and exploration to develop a basic understanding of scientific concepts!

Requires some household items (not included).

Requires 1 D battery (NOT INCLUDED).

Winner of the National Parenting Magazine Award and Creative Child Magazine Award.

This delightful set of self-contained book-kits combine hours of joy with solid basic science! This electricity kit is packed with parts: an easy-to-connect light bulb holder, light bulb, 4 colour coded alligator leads for bitingly good electrical contact, battery holder band, electric motor, pinwheel, motor mania cutouts, message-sending buzzer, LED, parts for switch, grab bag of text objects, plastic storage box and 36 page book. Everything you could possibly need to gain understanding of basic electrical principles - while having fun!

Requires 1 D battery (NOT INCLUDED).

Winner of the Parent's Choice Seal of Approval, Scientific American Young Reader's Book Award and a National Parenting Magazine Award.

Electrify your brain with this challenging puzzler! The object is to place all of the pieces on the board to successfully complete the circuit; do so, and the entire board lights up! Cool Circuits emphasizes spatial reasoning and abstract thinking with over 40 different challenges ranging from student to expert. Can you solve them all?

Includes: 1 light up board, 8 fluorescent 3-D puzzle pieces and 40 challenge cards.

For 1 player.

This award-winning Chemistry kit from ScienceWiz has 35 of those candle making, water squirting, glop and mud pie experiments that every child should do to explore the matter of matter! Can you keep a towel dry without a waterproof bag? If water flows downhill, how can you make it flow up? Includes a full-colour 40 page instruction book and materials for hours of scientific fun!

Penny Norman (Ph.D. Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley) and Ann Einstein (M.A.T. Berkeley School District) have refined this title with input from many hundreds of children. The award-winning imaging of Art Huff has made this book an all time favourite! Original design for this kit was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. This delightful book and kit combines hours of play with basic science, nurtures a love for learning and develops an accessibility to science.

Winner of a Creative Child Magazine Award.

Through play and pure building excitement this multiple award-winning kit presents the central concepts that every child should know to grasp the energy challenges ahead. From the creators of the award winning ElectroWizard™ Books/Kits (Winners of Scientific American Young Readers' Book Awards, National Parenting Magazine and Parent's Choice Awards). Includes: a Solar Racer, Supercacitor Car, Flywheel Generator and Electric Car.

The award-winning imaging of Art Huff delights the eye while making even complex concepts visually clear. The feedback from hundreds of young testers made Penny Norman (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) and Ann Einstein (M.A.T., Berkeley School District educator) leave in the play while exploring the exciting changes in energy technology. The result is this cutting edge book/kit which combines hours of spirited building with basic science.

Some projects include:

• Race across a room with potential energy
• Build a solar racer
• Speed away with a supercapacitor car
• Make chain reactions with kinetic energy
• Apply kinetic energy
• Have fun and save the planet!

Requires common household items (not included).

Requires one D battery and one 9 volt battery (NOT INCLUDED).

Winner of a Creative Child Magazine Award and named one of Dr. Toy's Top 10 Educational Toys of 2006.

This amazing kit is the perfect way to introduce children to chemistry, "The Alphabet of the Universe"! It is designed to develop an understanding of the different elements in the periodic table. Children will complete chemistry experiments designed by Dr. Penny Norman (Ph.D. in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley) that foster a deeper understanding of each element's properties and characteristics. Make rocket fuel, flame test alkali metals, pop hydrogen, form a cast with an exothermal reaction - this kit combines learning and fun, helping to develop a love of science in even young children!

This kit contains most of the components needed to complete each experiment, except for household items and food items listed in the experiment instructions. Also included is an illustrated, full colour, 40 page Chemistry Plus manual which provides experiment instructions, proton and neutron cut-outs, various periodic tables to colour in, and detailed information on each group of elements found in the periodic table. Help your child discover the exciting world of chemistry with this amazing kit!

Experiments require some common household and food items (not included).

Make an iron detector, go fishing, levitate metal rings, make magnets bigger and stronger, and craft a compass. ScienceWiz - ElectroWiz Magnetism Science Kit includes all materials needed and uses high quality ceramic magnets.

This multiple award-winning kit allows you to use everyday material to foster scientific understanding, build a spinning motor, a clicking telegraph, a working radio and a light flashing generator! Directions are clear, step-by-step and highly VISUAL. Most materials are included. Incredible illustrations present central scientific concepts, allowing children to learn the "why" as well as the "how", taking how-it-works to a whole new level of clarity. The use of everyday materials in the projects contributes to the understanding of how things work.

Although Inventions is designed for 8 year olds and up, this title has had an extraordinary history and following. It has been used at MIT to mentor high school students in physics. It has been used at U.C. Berkeley to mentor women in science. It has been used similarly at other institutions including Fermi Lab and the University of Texas at Austin. We heard rumors, that at one point, a number of physicists at Berkeley were spinning the hand made motors from Inventions on their desks, competing for the bragging rights as to whose was spinning the fastest!

Requires some common household items (not included).

Requires 1 D battery (NOT INCLUDED).

Winner of a Creative Child Magazine Award, National Parenting Magazine's Gold Award, Scientific American Young Reader's Book Award and the American Specialty Toy Industry Association's Top Picks Award.

This science kit contains 24 projects with motion to get your child involved in hands-on learning! It's an engaging science kit based on the properties of motion and gravity. The motion section covers many key concepts, including Newton's Laws of Motion and many others. These concepts and accompanying projects are presented in a truly winsome manner, geared specifically to children ages and up. Colourful illustrations seal the deal for a top-notch combination of learning and fun. This kit is specifically designed to develop an understanding of concepts in physics: inertia, the laws of motion, centripetal force, mass, weight, gravity, speed, velocity and acceleration. Quality time, quality play, quality learning! That's ScienceWiz!

Requires some household and food items (not included).

Winner of the Dr. Toy’s Best Toy Award and Best Vacation Award, as well as an award from Creative Child Magazine!

Learn to play chess the fun way - through 2 captivating stories! Learn all about the "characters" of chess, what they mean and how they work. When learned this way, children are engaged in learning and playing the game. Developed by author and chess teacher, Patzi Stewart. These books are not meant to be read all at once. They're not bedtime stories either. Ideally, these books are meant to be used with your child between 20 minutes and 1 hour at a time. Chess is about building communities on and off the board. It is about pieces taking care of each other by building strong, effective networks. It is also a search for truth. Let the game begin!

Includes: 2 softcover books, chess board and chess pieces.

Measures approximately 10" long x 17.5" wide x 2.5" high.

Winner of the 2010 Dr. Toy Best Toys Award!

Through the hands-on projects in this book and kit, children discover the amazing DNA story! With this kit you will be able to isolate DNA from a fruit, construct a DNA ladder, unzip and duplicate DNA and solve a chromosome puzzle - is it a boy or a girl? You can also identify single gene traits and analyze eye colour, extract your own DNA, and make forgery proof DNA ink!

This kit makes the basics of molecular biology accessible to the curious of all ages. Dr. Penny Norman (Ph.D. in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley) and Ann Einstein (M.A.T., elementary educator) use appealing kitchen table experiments refined through years of testing in after school programs and camps to tell the incredible DNA story.

Rubbing alcohol or specified alternative required (not included). Parental supervision required.

Grow giant starburst crystals, the size of dinner plates, in less that 1 minute! The crystals can be re-used to create a variety of structures including crystal sculptures and poured solutions that literally freeze in mid-air. Amazing! Crystals can be re-heated and re-used dozens of times. This ScienceWiz Super Crystals kit includes easy-to-understand instructions and reusable crystals. It's more science fun from ScienceWiz!

Learn how the history of the Earth is written in rocks! This kit is complete with a 56 page illustrated book which provides easy to understand step-by-step instructions and comes with materials for various activities. With more than 20 exciting experiments young scientists will learn how to identify rocks, create a lava fountain, smash rocks, learn about lava and a whole lot more!

A perfect gift for curious, aspiring geologists and a fun and educational activity for parties, playdates, rainy days or any time!

The ScienceWiz Rock Science Kit was authored by Dr. Penny Norman (Ph.D. in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley) and Ann Einstein (M.A.T., elementary educator) who use appealing kitchen table experiments refined through years of testing in after school programs and camps to relate rocks to the history of our planet.

Quality time, quality play, quality learning! That's ScienceWiz!

Requires some household items (not included).