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Macro and Microscope for Your Little Biologist

Yey! It’s your kid’s birthday! You should be prepared with everything since birthdays are huge among kids since they don’t have to worry much about work and stuffs. Well anyway, have you thought of a nice present? You would want something that would be used for a long time and would be very useful. Giving a book could be a bittersweet thing since some kids love reading while some hate. Then point exactly that you want him/her to be a biologist by giving this microscope!

This microscope can work up to 400x magnification letting the kid see the details up close. The 400x magnification would be enough to see a plant’s cell wall or the cell composition of an insect. If you feel that 400x magnification is too much, a 40x magnification on macro mode could also be chosen. The microscope is made of die-cast metal base and high-impact plastic body to ensure durability and the soft, textured hand grips would allow easy carrying. This microscope has a bulb so no other light source is needed in case it is dark indoors.

Each set includes two insect cross sections, two plant cross-sections and one slide featuring a real 900-year old Peruvian mummy wrap! Five additional vials of specimen are also included and blank slides for your kid to collect himself.  The necessary slide preparation tools such as tweezers, eye-dropper, measuring beaker, and spoon are also included.

Get this cool macro and microscope now!

Doodle in Circles With the R/C Doodling Bug

Kids are now more equipped than ever! The LEGO mp3 player that was featured some posts back, and more recently, those alternative energy lab and global warming kit that makes them more intelligent and knowledgeable. Now, this remote controlled bug let kids doodle around without even using their own hands! Talk about letting someone do the dirty job.

b172_rc_color_bug2The R/C Color Bug Doodling Toy makes your kid doodle around in circles using some stick controls on the remote. The R/C bug has a hole on the top where the included markers are placed and then off it goes. The marker writes along the path that the bug has been, which parents can call the path of destruction (just imagine the amount of floor scrubbing involved). The remote control is easy to operate with just a forward and a backward and a combination of both for curved movements. This isn’t really something that lets your kids draw creatively as it can only do a bunch of circles at most. That unless you try to be imaginative and see bunnies and those stuffs as if you were looking at cloud formations. This is also a toy that might make parents see images of crazy lines running everywhere in the house. In case you will be getting this, the included markers are washable, but take note that your kids might insert a permanent marker which can seriously mess your hardwood floors.

There is always one available to be purchased here.

Global Warming Experiment Kit is as Real as it Can Get

3444_xlKids nowadays are so high tech! They have these music players, computers, gadgets for different things. Even with their projects, they start to amp it up with the use of these modern gadgets and with the help of the computer. I can just remember the potato garden we used to make which was cool back then but compared to now, it looks like plain boring. Like this Global Warming Kit that makes learning about global warming and its consequences effective and interactive.

The Global Warming Kit by Thames and Kosmos is an innovative way to teach kids about global warming and its effects in every component in the world. For example, did you know about how the warming affects the Gulf stream? Or how warming affects the wind and ocean currents? Then this kit tells it all and more! You could learn, explore and model. Learn about Earth’s climate system, weather, and atmosphere; explore hydrological cycle to learn about humidity, clouds, and precipitation; and model Earth’s heat reservoirs, thermals, global and local winds, and ocean currents. Aside from that, there is also an experiment to measure the effect of the increase of carbon dioxide in air temperature. All that you need to learn about global warming is included in the kit.

3444_xl_2A full 48-page book is included in every kit to guide how each experiment is done. It also gives insights on how the climate change would affect the ecosystem, humans, and world economies.

This great Christmas gift can be bought here.