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Learn Through Play with Professor Maxwell 4D Science Set & Chemistry Set #giveaway

August 21, 2018 / 58 Comments

We’re well over one month into and out of summer vacation and this mom is counting down the days. Aside from the constant fighting and Fortnite playing that’s been going on we’ve gone to the lake, went to the fair, visited with family and purged just about every room in our house. Needless to say, the kids have been pretty busy.

However, August things seem to have slowed down a little - my husband is done his holidays, so it’s just me and the boys for the most part hanging around the house, soaking up some sun and getting our learn on with Professor Maxwell’s 4D Science and Chemistry Labs.


I wish I could say we were able to review both sets but since the boys couldn’t wait to make some slime they left the box with all of the science equipment and everything that was included outside, we had a crazy storm and that was the end of the Professor Maxwell 4D Science Set… It’s too bad because these projects looked like a ton of fun:

  • Sticky Slime
  • Volcanic Eruption
  • Lava Lamp
  • Dancing Paper
  • Extracting Colour
  • Flower Power
  • Magic Message
  • Make a Rainbow
  • Radical Crystals
  • Trapping Glass

Professor Maxwell 4D Chemistry Set projects are:

  • Copper Coins
  • Egg Tattoo
  • Make a Compass
  • Making Perfume
  • Oil & Water
  • Soapy Tricks
  • Rock Candy
  • Erupting Rainbow
  • Sticky Ice
  • What is PH?

Some of our favorite experiments were…

STICKY SLIME – Although, this didn’t work out for us the kids are still really excited that we now have a recipe and as soon as we have the supplies they will be trying again…this time with supervision.

SOAPY TRICKS

“When particles on the surface layer of water become attracted, a thin elastic sheet is formed, giving us surface tension. This is caused by cohesion and this natural phenomenon allows for objects to float, and for bugs to walk on water.”

As soon as the tiny drop of dish soap hit the water all of the pepper moved to the left – the boys thought this was pretty neat. When we did the same with the string we didn’t notice much movement but it did move a little

STICKY ICE

“Water molecules behave like little magnets and prefer to stick together in a big solid structure, like ice. When salt is added to ice, the molecules begin to act differently, causing them to split and melt.”

Someone went a little overboard with the salt…

Overall thoughts…

PROS

Professor Maxwell’s 4D Labs come with just about everything you need for 10 step-by-step augmented reality science projects minus a few household items.

Hands-free goggles and the free app download make Professor Maxwell come to life and makes learning concepts like density, static electricity, surface tension, cohesion and more!

With certain “experiments” like how-to-make make slime the science set was definitely popular with my boys…until they ruined it.

Keeps the kids interested in doing their own science experiments rather than watching other kids do them on YouTube.

CONS

I hadn’t taken a close enough look at the 30-page instruction book before we were going to do the experiments and didn’t have the “common household items” so we had to run out and grab a few supplies.

The slime experiment didn’t work and was very watery. However, because I wasn’t there when they tried this experiment I can’t say if it was the fault of the instructions not being laid out properly or the boys just not reading thoroughly because they were too excited.

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Enter to WIN…

ONE lucky CANADIAN reader will WIN a Professor Maxwell Science 4D Lab & a Professor Maxwell Chemistry 4D Lab – ends 9/10.

 

Disclosure: The products mentioned in this post were given to me from the brand or a PR company in the hopes that I would share them with you. However, as always all opinions are 100% honest and I only recommend products I would personally use and love, or think you will find useful.

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