One company in particular still carries a torch for the good old days of corrosive compounds, piercing audio tones and home explosions. (Don't even get me started on the Magic Science kit, which lets you "cast spells" to change the colors of liquids, or the one that shows Einstein pulling a rabbit out of a hat on the box. At least, not the kind of lesson our parents were learning when they accidentally burned holes in their carpets.
And while I'm sure little girls would love to concoct their own lipstick, and little boys want to look at their boogers close up, there aren't many science lessons in there. Many of them are also specific to different genders. For the most part they're targeted to the very young most manufacturers expect children as young as six years old to play with them. A cursory Google search will prove there are more "experiment" kits out there than you can count. As cool as it was, it made me sad – science kits just aren't as awesome anymore. The large wooden box's double doors opened to reveal a full-size metal microscope, glass slides and a slew of toxic chemicals that would never make it into the hands of our precious modern-day youngsters. Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.6 x 7.2 in.I was wandering the aisles of the Bay Area's largest rummage sale not long ago when I came across a thing of beauty: an ancient but extremely well-kept kids' science experiment kit. CHEM C3000 is an excellent preparation for high-school level chemistry.ĬHEM C3000 covers all of these topics and more: introduction to chemistry, safety information, setting up your workspace, acids & bases, salts & solutions, elements & compounds, solids, liquids & gases, combustion, air & air pressure, air pollution, our environment, metals, oxidation & rust, atoms & molecules, history of chemistry, crystal lattices, chemical formulas, ubiquitous elements, oxygen, hydrogen, water, solutions & saturation, hydrogen peroxide, atomic bonds, orbitals & shells, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, bromine & iodine, families of elements, the periodic table, sulfur, carbon dioxide, mineral deposits, baking soda & powder, ammonia, crystals & solutions, chemical indicators, separating mixtures, chromatography, electron transfer, electrolysis, electrochemistry, carbon, fossil fuels, alcohol, soils, soaps & detergents, sugars & starches, monomers & polymers, proteins, and waste disposal Product Information These concepts are critical to continued study of chemistry. CHEM C3000 has a similar hands-on approach to teaching chemistry as our other CHEM kits, but also teaches more advanced topics such as chemical equations, atomic structures, and the periodic table.
You could call it a textbook, but the manual is too much fun to make that comparison. The 192-page, full-color experiment manual is written at a more advanced level than the other CHEM kit manuals.
This kit includes all of the components from CHEM C2000, plus dozens of additional tools and chemicals, and 100 additional experiments, for a total of more than 333 experiments.
CHEM C3000 is the ultimate chemistry set.