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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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! Awards: Parent's Choice Award 2010