The Dangerous Book for Boys: Electronics
MSRP: $35.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature
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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 23130

The Dangerous Book for Boys: Electronics presents information on electronics every child should know through fun, engaging, and impressive experiments and activities. Children ages eight and up learn how to construct simple electronic toys, such as a joy buzzer and insect.  It comes with a 32-page, full-color experiment manual and retails for $35.95. Launch date: Fall 2009. 3/31/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

TK2 Scope
MSRP: $119.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22837

The TK2 Microscope kit gives you the tools, knowledge, and skills you need to view virtually any specimen you can find. The microscope is a dual light 40-, 100-, and 400-power metal and plastic microscope. The two battery-powered LED light sources allow for both the viewing of large or opaque objects lit from above and the viewing of thinly sliced or translucent specimens lit from below. It has a 10-power ocular lens; 4-, 10-, and 40-power objective lenses; and an aperture wheel. The lenses are all professional-quality optical glass. The microscope is durable and powerful, permitting years of continued observations. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Global Warming
MSRP: $34.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature
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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22836

Global warming — the steady increase in Earth’s air and ocean temperatures since the mid-20th century — is one of the most discussed and studied topics in the scientific community today. This kit introduces you to Earth’s climate and the issue of global warming with 23 hands-on experiments. This kit gives you the basic knowledge you need to understand the climate, why it changes, and how our actions affect it.
— “Science and robotics are extremely popular,” said Dean Nelson, owner of Wizard Kids Toys in Toledo, Ohio, who told TDmonthly in June 2009 that Thames & Kosmos is one of his top-selling lines for boys.
— Two of 47 storeowners said Thames & Kosmos account for their top sales in boys' items during a summer 2009 survey. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Hydro Power
MSRP: $49.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature
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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22835

Hydropower has been used for hundreds of years in watermills and is now commonly used to generate electricity in applications such as hydroelectric dams and tidal power plants. Explore the power of water by building models and conducting experiments with them. Learn about how different devices are used to extract useful energy from moving water — from a waterwheel in a small stream to a giant turbine in a tidal power station. Build a waterwheel, a sawmill, and a hammer mill to harness the energy of moving water to do different types of physical work. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Genetics & DNA
MSRP: $34.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22834

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. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Optical Science & Art
MSRP: $34.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22833

Astonish yourself with optical illusions and amazing visual phenomena as you explore the science of human perception in this fascinating kit. 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. Investigate lenses and light refraction. Experiment with spatial vision and depth perception with 3D glasses and an Ames room model. Find your blind spot and watch things disappear. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Space Exploration
MSRP: $34.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22832

Find out how Earth’s rotation creates day and night, how Earth’s axis and revolution around the sun causes the seasons, and how the moon’s rotation around Earth gives us the phases of the moon. See for yourself how meteorites formed the craters on the moon. Make a moon flipbook and a moon calendar. Build a sundial and a solar collector to experiment with the sun. Grasp a comet’s tail and learn about how meteoroids become falling stars.  A full-color, 32-page experiment book guides your space exploration. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Core Science MS-1
MSRP: $109.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22831

Core Science MS-1 is a supplemental science curriculum for students entering grades 5 through 8. By performing the experiments in this kit and completing exercises in the accompanying workbook, students will lay the groundwork for success in natural science courses in school. Students will gain familiarity with commonly used science terms, methods, and tools, preparing them for future studies. The full-color, 96-page experiment manual provides illustrated instructions and explanations, and the black-and-white, 48-page workbook guides students through each experiment and allows them to record their findings. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Archaeology kit: Pyramid
MSRP: $24.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22830

Play the role of archaeologist as you explore this pyramid model and the treasures buried within. After using hieroglyphics to decipher the secret to unlocking the pyramid, use tools and techniques similar to those of a real archaeologist to carefully excavate a sarcophagus, death mask, and four canopic urns from inside. Open the sarcophagus, and you will discover a model mummy preserved within. 3/18/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Little Labs: Intro to Engineering
MSRP: $34.95
Age: 5 to 7
Category: Science & Nature
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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22412

Intro to Engineering is part of the Little Labs line, which is intended to be the portal through which children ages five to seven first begin to explore and appreciate science. Intro the Engineering introduces young children to the field of engineering with 25 experiments in five sections. Children learn engineering basics with experiments on levers, forces, and pulleys. They explore engineering on land by building vehicles with wheels; engineering in the air with a helicopter, a parachute, and a glider; and engineering in the water with a diving bell, a sailboat, and a paddleboat. They even find engineering at home, with experiments modeling the telephone and television (without breaking them, of course). This kit has a 48-page, full-color experiment manual, and a retail price of $34.95. Available summer 2009. 2/6/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

The Dangerous Book for Boys: Classic Chemistry
MSRP: $35.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature
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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22411

The Dangerous Book for Boys: Electronics presents information on electronics every child should know through fun, engaging, and impressive experiments and activities. Children ages eight and up learn how to construct simple electronic toys, such as a joy buzzer and insect.  It comes with a 32-page, full-color experiment manual and retails for $35.95. Launch date: Fall 2009. 2/6/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Fuel Cell 10: 10th Anniversary Car & Experiment Kit
MSRP: $169.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22410

Targeted for ages ten and up, this edition enables a younger audience to experience one of the most significant technologies of the early 21st Century — especially appropriate in the midst of our auto industry crisis and global energy situation. By constructing and operating a unique reversible hydrogen fuel cell, powered by water and sunlight, children build a model car that actually runs on water! And in so doing, they join auto manufacturers in experimenting with a technology that will power not only automobiles, but electronic devices such as laptops and cell phones. This new edition has a beautifully redesigned car body with a display stand and a rewritten 64-page, full-color experiment manual, and retails for $169.95. Available fall 2009. 2/6/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Power House Green Essentials Edition
MSRP: $89.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature
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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 22409

As a follow-up to the bestselling Power House kit comes Power House Green Essentials Edition, targeted towards a younger audience of ages 10 and up. This kit teaches children about the timely issues of alternative energy and sustainable living, by conducting 30 experiments and building ten energy-related models: the power house itself, a greenhouse, a solar cell array, a passive solar collector, a solar oven, an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a hydrometer, a lemon battery, and a wind power generator. They can even sow seeds in the greenhouse! The kit comes with a 64-page, full-color experiment manual and retails for $89.95. Available now. 2/6/2009 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Introduction to Electronics
MSRP: $109.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 21260

Kids will discover the digital world with this unique introduction to electronics. They follow the story of Robert M-3, a young robot in the year 2069, who is beginning his education in electronics with an apprenticeship to Sirius Armstrong, the chief electrical engineer on an enormous space station orbiting Earth. As they read about Robert’s lessons in electronics, they will conduct experiments alongside him using the Electronics Workshop console.  They start by assembling simple circuits with blinking LEDs and resistors, as Robert travels from Earth to the space station. Once there, he goes from department to department, fixing electrical systems and devices, while the child works alongside him. Electronics Workshop 1 is a captivating combination of reading and science, with fanciful stories that enliven the experiments, making for a fun learning experience. Full-color, 68-page experiment manual takes kids through 148 experiments in electronics. Launch date: August 2008. 11/10/2008 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Wind Power
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 20465

Kids can use this kit to build a working wind turbine to harness power out of thin air. Wind is one of the most promising sources of clean, renewable energy available today. During the experiments, kids will learn the physics of force and motion as it applies to wind power technology. The kit includes a full-color, 32-page experiment manual that offers illustrated instructions for 20 experiments and scientific information. Kids will build a working wind turbine, harnes mechanical energy to lift weights and more.
— “I’m featuring science kits that teach kids about the environment or renewable energy, such as the Thames and Kosmos Wind Power and the Fuel Cell X7,” said Michelle Smith of Piccolo Mondo Toys in Portland, Ore., of this good seller in her store. 9/11/2008 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Little Labs: Plants
MSRP: $14.95
Age: 5 to 7
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 15038

Kids can learn how plants germinate from seeds, how they grow, what they need to grow, what they produce, how their roots, stems and leaves function and more. The set comes with an easy-to-follow, 16-page color manual. “All Little Labs guidebooks are written in both English and Spanish…[and] include simple pictorial instructions with just enough text to reinforce vocabulary and aid in language learning,” Christa Raimondo Cronin, customer service representative at Thames & Kosmos, told TDmonthly. Launch date: August 2007. 9/4/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Little Labs: Weather
MSRP: $14.95
Age: 5 to 7
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 15037

With this kit, kids can safely investigate weather by conducting experiments on wind, rain, storms, clouds, rainbows evaporation, pressure and more. A 16-page, full-color  English and Spanish bilingual guidebook is included. “Designed to introduce the concept of experimentation to children ages 5-7, all Little Labs kits include simple pictorial instructions with just enough text to reinforce vocabulary and aid in language learning, as well as to advise parents and adult supervisors,” Christa Raimondo Cronin, customer service representative at Thames & Kosmos, told TDmonthly. Launch date: August 2007. 9/4/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

CHEM C500
MSRP: $31.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 15036

The kit is based on the CHEM C101 kit, but is now even easier and safer to use. This new and improved version takes children on an introductory tour through seven central areas in chemistry with more than 30 classic experiments. The kit comes with a 32-page, full-color manual that is replete with pictures and diagrams. “CHEM C500 is ideal for children who are interested in chemistry but who are not yet ready for a more advanced chemistry set,” Christa Raimondo Cronin, customer service representative at Thames & Kosmos, told TDmonthly. “Experiments are fun and engaging and emphasize the ‘magic’ behind chemical reactions.”  This product is a Fall 2007 Parent's Choice Award winner. Launch date: July 2007. 9/4/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Physics Pro
MSRP: $99.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 14652

With this advanced physics kit, kids can study more advanced topics in physics, including fluid dynamics, energy, oscillation, hydraulics and pneumatics. They will build spectacular models and devices, such as a wind tunnel, pneumatic shocks and a hydraulic lift. They will learn how ships float and airplanes fly, why a streamlined shape lets a car drive faster and how power plants convert a current of water into electrical current. A 96-page full-color manual is included.  “All learning is done through hands-on construction,” Thames & Kosmos Customer Relations Manager Christa Raimondo told TDmonthly. This product is a Fall 2007 Parent's Choice Award winner. Launch date: July 2007. 8/15/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Microcontroller
MSRP: $149.95
Age: 12 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 13414

This computer systems engineering kit introduces kids to microcontrollers, sensors and programming. The educational kit includes 100 experiments involving light, heat and sound sensors, data collection and more. Kids will learn about the inner workings of computers and programs and how to assemble circuits, design circuits and write programs. This product received a Spring 2007 Parents' Choice Silver Award.
— “This kit breaks down how computers actually work and thus is extremely relevant to the technology-dependent world in which children live and learn,” Christa Raimondo, customer relations manager for Thames & Kosmos, told TDmonthly.
— “Thames & Kosmos science kits do really well during the holidays,” Little Blue Choo Choo Manager Brandy Lindstrom in Scottsdale, Ariz., told TDmonthly.
— Five out of 58 retailers who spoke with TDmonthly named science kits as a popular gift item for older kids. 6/13/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Milestones in Science: The History of Science
MSRP: $79.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 11678

This set includes a 96-page manual that tells about the 100 most significant experiments and discoveries of all time, 94 parts for experimentation, and information on the accomplishments of more than 140 scientists and civilizations. Chapters are as follows: Light, Colors, and Sound; Heat, Steam, and Engines; Magnetism and Electricity; Communication and Microelectronics; Forces; Life; Atoms and Molecules; Stars and Planets; and The Periodic Table. “Milestones in Science is unique in that it combines experimentation with history,” Christa Raimondo of Thames & Kosmos told TDmonthly. “Each experiment is centered on a specific scientist, his or her discovery, and its importance in the world of science.” Launch date: July 2007. 2/27/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Little Labs: Stepping Into Science
MSRP: $34.95
Age: 5 to 7
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 11677

With this bilingual experiment kit, children can learn science fundamentals through 25 experiments that cover five key areas: biology, physics, chemistry, air and water. It includes a 48-page color guidebook with simple pictorial instructions and text in English and Spanish. “Because the steps are clear and easy to follow, a child as young as 5 can successfully complete the experiments,” Christa Raimondo of Thames & Kosmos told TDmonthly. The Little Labs series also includes single-topic kits on plants, physics, light and colors, animals, weather, and cars and motors. This product is a Fall 2007 Parent's Choice Award winner. Launch date: June 2007. 2/27/2007 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Physics Workshop
MSRP: $49.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 10622

Through building 36 models and conducting subsequent experiments, kids will learn the fundamental laws of mechanical physics. This hands-on approach is both fun and effective because the principles of physics are demonstrated right in front of children. Projects include building a windmill, making a hammer machine, and experimenting with pulleys and gears. It comes with a 64-page manual. 12/11/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

National Geographic - Dinosaur Skeleton Kit
MSRP: $5.95
Age: 6 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 9504

Using this puzzle kit, kids will build a realistic model of a Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex or Triceratops skeleton.  They’ll also learn about the dinosaur with a full-color, foldout information sheet and three dinosaur fact cards. (SKUS: Brachiosaurus – 630218, Stegosaurus – 630225, Tyrannosaurus rex - 630249 Triceratops – 630232). Launch Date: Fall 2006. 9/26/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

National Geographic - Dinosaur Expedition Kit
MSRP: $10.95
Age: 7 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 9503

Kids can unearth a model Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex or Triceratops skeleton using tools and techniques similar to those of a real paleontologist.  They’ll learn about the dinosaur they excavated with a quiz-card fan, and collect dinosaur fast facts.  (SKUs: Triceratops – 630126, Brachiosaurus – 630140, Stegosaurus – 6301333, Tyrannosaurus rex - 630119) Launch Date: Fall 2006. 9/26/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Chem C1000
MSRP: $79.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 8756

Enroll in Chem C1000 and prepare a child for a lifetime of fascination through 75 diverse experiments. Build a mini fire extinguisher and make water flow uphill in experiments with air pressure. Float a soap-powered boat to learn about the surface tension of water. Entertain friends and family with chemistry "magic" tricks, and then enlighten them with the scientific explanations behind the magic. Identify the elements in different chemical substances with dazzling colors in flame tests. The 40-page, full-color Experiment Manual guides aspiring young chemists, chemical engineers, lab technicians and researchers. 7/26/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Brainy Freeze Ice Cream Maker
MSRP: $14.99
Age: 8 and up
Category: Candy & Food

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 8068

Now kids can make their own ice cream with the Brainy Freeze Ice Cream Maker and receive a tasty lesson in thermodynamics and heat transfer at the same time. With a simple mixture of ice and salt in the outer container, the temperature drops below zero degrees and creates a perfect environment for freezing ice cream mixtures in the inner container. The fun, tapered strawberry shape is easy for small and large hands alike to grip while the ice cream is churned. The kit includes a 16-page color experiment manual with science, history, fun ice cream facts, instructions for use and recipes. THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. 6/1/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Candy Factory
MSRP: $39.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Candy & Food

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 7788

Willy Wonka. Milton Hershey. Forrest Mars. John Cadbury. Factual or fictional, the great names in the history of candy making all share one thing: they were experimenters and innovators. Now you can experiment with the art of making candy, and learn the science behind how it forms and why it tastes so good. Inside this giant chocolate bar-shaped box is a scientific candy wonderland including the special tools and recipes you need to make candy. Use the plastic and metal molds, shape cutters, candy thermometer, spatula, dipping fork and various other tools to form and coat your candies. Finish them with foils, paper cups, sticks and wrappers. The 48-page illustrated book provides instructions, recipes and scientific explanations. This kit does not contain any food items. Ingredients must be purchased separately, giving you control over the ingredients you use. 5/4/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Elements of Science
MSRP: $74.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Educational

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 7787

Investigate the most important phenomena in biology, chemistry, and physics by conducting more than 100 fun experiments. A broad, yet elaborate introduction to the physical and natural sciences, this kit is intended to expose children to the full spectrum of science and show first-hand how these three core disciplines interrelate. The full-color, 112-page book guides your experiments and discoveries. 5/4/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Physics Solar Workshop
MSRP: $59.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 7786

Physics Solar Workshop explores the topic of solar energy, focusing on photovoltaic cells. 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 physics kits. The 64-page book offers illustrated instructions for the projects. This kit was developed with Greenpeace in Germany.
— This kit offers experimentation “with different mechanisms that allow you optimize the use of the solar power depending on specific applications. For example, you build vehicles with different gear ratios….In this way, it teaches kids how solar power can be harnessed and transformed for use in the real world,” president Ted McGuire of Thames & Kosmos told TDmonthly. 5/4/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Physics Discovery
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 7785

With Physics Discovery, you can build 12 models and then conduct experiments with the models to learn about forces and simple machines. Each model demonstrates a fundamental idea in mechanical physics. For example, you can build a balance scale to learn about lever arms, a freight elevator to learn about pulleys, a bicycle to learn about wheels, a motion picture machine to learn about centripetal and centrifugal forces, and a transmission to learn about gears. Physics Discovery is a smaller, introductory companion to our best-selling Physics Workshop kit. It has different building projects and experiments, but parts that are compatible with those in Physics Workshop and Physics Solar Workshop. This kit includes more than 100 building pieces. The 32-page book offers illustrated instructions for building projects and experiments. 5/4/2006 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Perfume Science
MSRP: $60.00
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 6145

Perfume Science provides children an opportunity to develop a more sophisticated nose than most adults will ever have. The kit includes a complete perfumer’s laboratory and will teach how the brain and the olfactory senses work together.
— “I sold all of my Thames & Kosmos Creative Cosmetics and Perfume Science kits,” enthused Bettie Lee Moore, owner of Kaboom! in Leesburg, Va.
— “It’d be fun if everybody made their own bottle of perfume” at a slumber party, agreed Kate Tanner, owner of Kidstop Toy & Book Store in Scottsdale, Ariz. She says that beauty-related crafts kits are hot with girls at her store.
— “I don’t care how advanced we want them to be, they still like putting on makeup and doing their hair,” sighed Greg Bonner, owner of Heights Toy Center in Little Rock, Ark. Perfume and cosmetic craft kits were among his best sellers for “girlie” parties. 12/22/2005 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

CHEM C3000 Chemistry Experiment Kit
MSRP: $209.95
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2836

This kit allows users to learn first-hand every fundamental principle of chemistry by performing 360 fascinating and fun lab experiments in a complete and well-balanced curriculum. Build a mini fire extinguisher and float a soap-powered boat. Write with invisible ink and test colored markers on the chromatography racetrack. Make dazzling colors in flame tests and produce electricity in a test tube. CHEM C3000 is an excellent way to prepare for high-school level, and even college level, chemistry. The kit includes professional quality equipment and a 178-page, full-color, easy-to-follow Experiment Manual. 2/11/2005 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Creative Cosmetics Experiment Kit
MSRP: $60.00
Age: 12 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2835

The kit includes 17 different cosmetics base substances that can be used to make personalized makeup, lip gloss, body lotion, face cream and shower gel. The full-color, 48-page book guides young chemists through the science and history of cosmetics and gives dozens of beauty recipes and techniques. In addition, it teaches how to care for skin, hair and nails to keep them healthy and radiant and builds a young person´s foundation in basic dermatology. 2/11/2005 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

National Geographic ™ Dinosaurs & Fossils Experiment Kit
MSRP: $31.95
Age: 8 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2834

Fossils are the key to unlocking the mysteries of prehistoric life. With this kit, kids can learn about many species of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, some of the most prolific and impressive creatures to ever exist on Earth. The 32-page book guides kids through various activities: assembling a dinosaur skeleton, building a pterosaur mobile, casting plaster fossils, playing a dinosaur quiz game, creating a time spiral and making a geological-time bookmark. 2/11/2005 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

National Geographic ™ Earthquakes & Volcanoes Experiment Kit
MSRP: $31.95
Age: 10 and up
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2833

With this kit, kids will learn about plate tectonics by erupting two types of volcanoes to imitate how lava hardens into rock and volcanic mountains grow. Kids can even build a working seismograph to see for themselves how scientists measure earthquake forces. The kit comes with a 32-page book that guides kids through erupting two volcano models, playing a volcano quiz game, assembling a plate tectonics puzzle, constructing a globe, examining real volcanic rocks, and building and using a seismograph. 2/11/2005 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Micro Trek
MSRP: $89.95
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2738

Depart on a Micro Trek and venture deep into the microcosmos with this high quality 100x to 900x microscope. Unveil the hidden creatures and unseen structures of the microscopic world. Learn how to use the microscope and about each of its parts. 12/17/2004 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Crystal Pro
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2737

With Crystal PRO, budding materials scientists and mineralogists learn about the structure and geometry of crystals by growing their own large, beautiful specimens with complex shapes and spectacular colors. Grow deep blue rhomboids, brilliantly clear prisms and pale violet octahedrons. Contemplate the natural order of the universe as you discover why crystals form and how atoms fit together to make these ultra-organized structures. Build a balance scale to take measurements like real research scientists. Discover how crystals that grow quickly are different from slower-growing ones. Learn how the pyramids of Egypt can help us understand crystal structures. THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.  12/17/2004 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Kite Dynamics
MSRP: $39.95
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2736

Soar to new heights with a kite you design and build yourself! Using a simple and unique connector system, your colorful kite sails can be configured in hundreds of ways to create a wide variety of kites. 12/17/2004 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Fuel Cell Car
MSRP: $149.95
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 2735

The Thames & Kosmos Fuel Cell Car & Experiment Kit provides a playful introduction to one of the most significant technologies of the 21st century. With this kit you can build a model car that actually runs on water! 12/17/2004 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Chem C101
Category: Science & Nature

ToyDirectory Product ID#: 1854

Introduce your child to the world of chemistry that will spark their interest! With Chem C101 by Thames & Kosmos (ToyDirectory), you will have 30 different experiments to do that will educate you about various reactions between solids, liquids, and gasses. Included are solutions to experiment with, test tubes, goggles, pipettes, and a full-color Experiment Manual! Do not forget to use your goggles at all times! Ages 10 and up. THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
 12/10/2004 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]