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Make a winning bid on these five exciting and educational kits for your budding young scientist!

Giant Mars Volcano: Erupt a model of the largest volcano in our solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It is three times taller than Mt. Everest. Using a special plaster mixture and iron oxide powder, your mega-volcano hardens after each eruption and slowly grows like a real volcano.

Pocket Microscope Nature Discovery Kit: Microscopes reveal amazing secrets hidden in the microscopic world. But how do they work? Assemble your microscope step by step and learn the functions of its optical and electronic components in the process. Then, you can take your handy microscope with you everywhere and study animals, plants, rocks, and coins, or the surfaces of objects and materials wherever you go.

Build a 20x to 40x microscope from 28 parts. Assemble the lenses and adjustment wheels. Wire up the switch and LED lighting. Take your microscope on a voyage of discovery.

Mineral Discovery: For thousands of years, people have treasured colorful rocks, beautiful crystals, and valuable jewels. Using the ten mineral specimens and other materials in this kit, you can conduct experiments to learn how Earth creates these natural treasures. Learn how to identify and distinguish mineral specimens by testing their properties such as density, streak color, hardness, and translucency. Find out how and where crystals and minerals are formed. Cast crystal shapes out of plaster to explore the tiny building blocks of minerals.

Attach your specimens to the colorful mineral poster using plastic boxes to create an attractive educational display. You can use this kit as a starter set for a new rock collection or as an educational companion to an existing rock collection. Learn where and when to search for your own minerals in nature to grow your collection. Specimens include amethyst, rose quartz, flint, quartz, amazonite, apatite, mookaite, labradorite, pyrite, and a desert rose.

Solar Boat:  Construct a solar-electric boat and five additional models using an innovative motor module that can be powered by a solar cell or batteries. Build a solar catamaran driven by a fanboat-like propeller, a windmill, airplane model, spaceship model, fan, and rocket model. Learn how solar cells convert energy from sunlight into electricity to drive the motor and move your models.

Glow Stick Lab:  Make awesome glow sticks that shine in cool colors under UV lights and that glow in the dark. Mix up five different glowing concoctions using the included materials and substances from around your house, and then learn why they glow!

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