Customer Reviews

Scientific Explorer's My First Weather Science and Learning Kit

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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.

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!

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!

Christmas gift for my 6yo nephew. His hobby is studying weather so this fit right in!

My grandnephew had this on his wish list. The 1st time it rained, he raced to see how much it did rain, according to the weather station. He is 6 and is taking an interest in weather.