School is out next week, which means my boys will be home all day with nothing to do, because there is nothing fun to do here, despite bookshelves crammed with reading-level-appropriate books and bins full of toys that they once insisted they had to have, and an entire backyard to play in, plus the school playground just down the street. Instead, I know I will be spending hours every day forcing them to turn off the TV and do something educational, something that will keep their brains from turning to mush.
Thanks to Parent Bloggers Network and the website Educational Insights, we reviewed the Solar Science Lab, which has 30 experiments that will get my boys away from the TV and doing something educational for at least part of the summer! The Lab kit comes with 20 parts required to perform the activities, we just need to provide some common items like glasses, spoons, and dishes. There is also a full-color Guide book which includes interesting facts about Solar Energy. The 30 lab activities teach kids ages 8 and up about how heat and light can do everything from increase the temperature of a room to power a mobile.
It does help if you have windows that get direct sunlight, but if not, many of the activities can be done just using a table lamp. Between the time we received the kit and my writing this review, we had so few sunny days that we only completed one experiment that required direct sunlight! We learned that if the sun’s rays are reflected onto a mirror, the temperature in the room will go up, so the lesson is, don’t hang a mirror directly across from a window that gets direct sunlight. Excellent!
You can get the Solar Science Lab for $27.99 from Educational Insights, which is a great deal for 30 activities that will get your kids doing something educational. Thanks again to PBN for providing the Solar Science Lab for this review. To read what other bloggers had to say, visit the Parent Bloggers Network.
(photo: EducationalInsights.com, this is not one of my kids!)
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Great toy to pull your kids away from their xbox or ps3. You might also want to consider astronomy kits. Kids love stars
a great gift for the future scientists
That sounds like a wonderful kit! At this point I just have my kids using that free site science with me. There are some science projects they like on there.
It’s really a pretty theme. Good amount of knowledge provided about toys to keep younger children away from personal computers, PS-2 etc. These toys are easy to make.
R.J. (changed the name you left with your comment, I don’t allow keywords to be used in place of real names),
We had a telescope once but the boys didn’t use it very often. Thanks for reminding me though, it’s time to pull it out of the basement!
Tracy (I changed the name you left with your comment, I don’t allow keywords to be used in place of real names),
Thanks for the link to Science With Me, I’ll check that out for summer activities!
This blog really helpful for young kids who wants to prepare there projects. These projects helps parents to keep there children away from gadgets.
This kit seems really interesting. My son has an electrical kit with many activities. He loves to play with it.
small kids always curious to learn more and more abnout nature and science. so an electrical kit for science would be a better idea.
The 30 lab activities teach kids ages 8 and up about how heat and light can do everything from increase the temperature of a room to power a mobile.
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