Scientific Explorer's My First Weather Science and Learning Kit

by Scientific Explorer

Product Features

• A great way to introduce your child to the wonders of weather at an early age!
• Learn how a tornado forms
• Make instruments to test weather conditions
• What is the "eye of a storm" or "windsppe"? Learn about weather terms
• Become a weather expert as you chart daily weather patterns

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 10.2 x 12.2 inches ; 1.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ESZQS4
• Item model number: 225
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 8 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,554 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

My First Weather Kit will blow you away! Learn all about extreme weather as you have fun with this complete weather station. Explore why are we having so many hurricanes and typhoons. How does global warming make ocean levels rise? You'll discover all this and more as you become a weather expert!

Product Description

My First Weather Kit will blow you away! Learn all about extreme weather as you have fun with this complete weather station. What makes a tornado form' How do you check windspeed' What is the eye of a storm' Why are we having so many hurricanes and typhoons' How does global warming make ocean levels rise' You'll discover all this and more as you become a weather expert.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A, December 6, 2008

By 

grandiloquious "yaya" (colorado, usa) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Scientific Explorer's My First Weather Science and Learning Kit (Toy)

I am a teacher on a reservation and purchased this weather kit to use in our classroom study of weather. Prior to that, however, my 2 year old took it out of the box and had quite a lot of fun with it! On the durability side, it is not tremendously so... it is appropriate for the price of the unit though. There is a tremendous rhelm of educational potential, and the unit augments and illustrates the weather study very nicely, but would not be compete enough to become the entire lesson.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The only part that works is the rain gauge., September 20, 2010

By 

Daniel C. Starr "joecuban" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Scientific Explorer's My First Weather Science and Learning Kit (Toy)

I bought this for a home school unit for my 8-year-old about the weather, and was so disappointed! The only part of it that actually works is the rain gauge (so my only compliment is that that part does not leak)! The thermometer says it is always exactly 48 degrees, and the wind always blows north. If I hadn't spent so long assembling it and it weren't such a hassle, I'd send it back. Since I don't plan to, the next best way to make my point is to advise everyone else not to buy one!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money., December 28, 2007

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M. Markowitz - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Scientific Explorer's My First Weather Science and Learning Kit (Toy)

This was just not worth the money. My son is 5, and he thought it was boring. Putting the weather station together was not as easy as it should have been, and he could not help with that part. I'm not sure an 8 year old could even do it. Once it was together, it seems to be durable enough to stay outside, and we'll see how it works. The book that it came with was fun to read to my son, but the iceberg was so cheesy, that I just couldn't bring myself to do it. A plastic bag? I could do that with spending the money for a kit!