Tinker Crate — science & engineering build kits for ages 9–12 — real tools, real experiments, delivered monthly. (Affiliate link)
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Build paper immune cells and act out how your body detects and destroys a virus in the bloodstream.
Easy
Listen to a heartbeat through a paper towel tube and see how much faster it gets after running in place.
Easy
Find your pulse at six different spots on your body and discover how the heartbeat travels through every artery.
Medium
Blow into an upside-down water bottle and compare your lung capacity to volunteers with different fitness levels.
Medium
Draw a dot and a cross on a card, then slowly move it toward your face to find the exact distance where the dot vanishes.
Medium
Blindfold your participants with four mystery flavors and discover which basic taste the tongue detects most strongly.
Medium
Hang weights from a single hair strand until it snaps, then compare treated, untreated, wet, and dry hair strength.
Medium
Measure 24 people of different heights and ages to find out whether taller people really do take longer steps.
Medium
Measure the fingers of violinists and non-musicians to discover whether years of string-pressing changes finger length.
Medium
Measure cells from humans and plants under a microscope to discover that bigger organisms do not have bigger cells.
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