A KitBook combines the visual features of a textbook with hands-on learning through a complete kit. We received an Electric Circuits KitBook to review, which contain alls the instructions and parts needed for each experiment, plus a “PowerPage” for building actual working circuits. I handed my boys (who are 12 and 10)  the KitBook and asked if they needed any help with it. “No no, we got it” I was assured.

I waited maybe five minutes and went back to check on them. They had already hooked wires up to a battery and were powering a spinning plastic disk! This is a sample photo that shows what they had built:

The Electric Circuits KitBook includes nine cool experiments:

- Turn on lights, spin motors, buzz buzzers.
- Make series and parallel circuits.
- Build a circuit to test insulators and conductors.
- Learn about and use two different kinds of switches.
- Discover the difference bewteen primary and secondary batteries.
- Send Morse Code with a series circuit and
a buzzer.
- Detect magnetic fields in wires using a
compass.
- Make an electromagnet with a battery,
a wire, and a nail. See what you
can pick up… and what you can’t.
- Learn fun facts about electricity!

KitBooks are terrific for teachers to use in classrooms and for homeschooling parents as well. Kids can use them as part of lessons or just for fun. They include everything needed including batteries and are safety tested.  There are other “toy” science kits available, but this is the real deal based on my experience with other types of home kits.  Check out KitBooks Electric Circuits for yourself at www.kitbook.com!