Tinkering With Toys Kit

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You might say that science teacher Karen Bouffard never grew up - and she might say you were right! She’s put together this demonstration kit that contains everything you’ll need to teach a wide range of playfully engaging physics lessons, using wind-up toys, rainbow glasses, “magic mirrors” and other “childish” devices.
Explore inertia, kinetic energy and gravity with a Slinky™; explain fluid dynamics with a tornado tube; and find out if the Drinking Bird really violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics! Comes with a very concise booklet that explains the science behind every item and Includes “build-it-yourself” sections for further tinkering. Grades 7-10.
Includes: microscope slides/9, 35mm film canisters/6, 2L bottles/3, paper clips, 2 plastic cups, 20 petri dishes, birthday candles, rubber bands, 2 acetate sheets, 1 Slinky™, 1 wind-up toy, metal washers/6, 1 balancing bird, duct tape, tagboard/100, flint glass plate, lodestone, plane mirror, tornado tube, drinking bird, rainbow glasses, magic mirror, Newton’s yo-yo, kaleidoscope, magic light wand, whistling tube, instructions.

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