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PRIMARY KIT - Electronics & Science Construction Kit - Includes 100 Experiments - Educational Product - More than a Game or Toy - Aids Learning - Teaches Technology and is a stepping stone to the National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 & 2. from Cambridge BrainBox
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Minimum Age: 8 years
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Product Description The Primary kit is designed to teach children the basic principles of electrics and electronics in a fun way. The Primary kit is suitable for use in the classroom or the home. It covers the requirements of the Science National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 & 2 with links to Design and Technology and adds many extra exciting experiments for good measure! How do the parts fit together? All the parts fit together with press-studs on a baseboard. Very little skill is required to assemble the components so making the kit suitable for all abilities. What instructions are provided? The manual contains all the National Curriculum worksheets covering Key Stage 1 and 2 Science at levels 2F, 4F and 6G, complete with teacher/parent notes, it also shows all the circuits that can be built with the kit
Customer Reviews
Fantastic fun for younger children too Posted 20 April 2008
My 5 year old was given this as a present and he loves it. He very quickly worked out that you need to have a complete circuit and he happily makes different circuits to do different things. With a bit of explanation he understands what is going on so can trouble shoot on his own. It is so easy to pop together that there is no reason why younger children cannot benefit - particularly with a bit of adult help.
Really good fun Posted 27 March 2008
My son who is 8 loves this toy. He spends hours experimenting with different circuits. His brother who is 5 also enjoys connecting the pieces togerther and trying to make the lights or sirens work. I don't think they can understand the principles of connecting circuits in series or parallel but it doesn't seem to matter
Excellent Kit Posted 11 February 2008
Very impressed with this kit, in fact our 8 year old has professed it his favourite birthday present. The pieces are all very clearly labelled & laid out in the box, so you can tell very easily what is what. There's a good variety of components for lots of different layouts. The booklet contains a large number of experiments and has tests & exercises for teaching kids how & why their circuits work. Or you can just stick the pieces together & see what happens! All the components seem pretty hard wearing as well, so you should get a fair bit of life out of it.
One slight quibble I would have is that it was somewhat longer in arriving than I would have hoped for, especially as it does not fall under Amazon's free postage delivery option.
At £14.99 for 100 Experiments - This offers Great Value Posted 09 December 2007
We received the Primary Kit with some other Cambridge BrainBox Kits as a Present.
This company seem to have two different size Kits for the 8 to 13 age level.
They charge £14.99 for the Primary Kit which includes 100 experiments
whereas the £29.99 Primary Plus Kit includes 500 experiments.
Anyway on to the Primary Kit which cost us £14.99 - it came in a large box with enough parts to construct over 100 experiments.
The parts were brightly coloured and number coded - which really did help us in the construction - and the bits seemed to be strong.
We have tried 2 of the kits now and my kids think that they are playing a game and having fun,
but at the same time they have been learning about Electronics. This is certainly easier than trying to get them to do their homework.
The Primary Kit is designed to teach children the basic principles of electricity and electronics.
It covers the requirements of the Science National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 & 2 with links to Design and Technology and adds many extra exciting experiments for good measure!
We experimented with controlling how to make lamps get brighter and got a motor working. Building the flying fan was great fun.
But the kids made a bit too much noise experimenting with electronic sirens.
We had to steer them to some of the quieter projects like building Electric Circuits, Light Emitting Diodes, Learning about different types of Switches and experimenting with Conductors and Insulators. We are now moving on to Series and Parallel Circuits
The teacher at our local school loves these kits because they teach at Key Stage level and are linked to the National Curriculum.
All of our family seem to have enjoyed using this kit so we would definitely recommend it.
Well done to Cambridge BrainBox who seem to have developed a good range of products
and the prices seem very reasonable considering how much content there is in the box.
Once you have bought the Primary Kit you will soon want the Primary Plus Kit because it has 500 experiments.
Its great fun using these kits and you learn lots while you are doing it - be careful as they do become addictive.
We had never previously heard about BrainBox until we saw it on Amazon.
We will certainly be recommending this range to our friends.
Hours of fun for a 6 year old! Posted 16 November 2007
My son got this from his grandmother last birthday (age 6) and has played and played with it. It comes with an easy to follow set of plans for instant gratification...loud noises, dramatic flight of a spinning disc and lights flashing but has spent hours creating his own circuits. Well worth the money and far better value than some available at 2 and 3 times the price. Definately recommended for little boys with active minds!
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