Kids’ weather station
These home-experiment kits will give you an excuse to pry the Nintendo from your kids' fingers — and they'll be learning about the environment, too
Green science weather station kit
What is it? A range of eco home experiment kits for children.
How does it work? Anyone remember chemistry kits? Before the arrival of
computer games, our junior nerds used these to construct crystal radios,
engineer potato-powered clocks, build mousetrap robots and sometimes, if you
didn’t watch them carefully, blow things up.
The Green Science range of kits from 4M will give you an excuse to pry the
Nintendo from the fingers of your budding Einsteins for an enjoyable few
hours of quality family time while simultaneously educating them about the
The range includes the Weather Station kit, which comes with a thermometer,
rain gauge, wind vane, anemometer and a compass which are all assembled into
a mini weather station. Instructions for experiments include a method of
measuring the greenhouse effect.
Also from 4M is that old reliable, the Potato Clock, which shows your little
darlings how to generate