Chad's Crappy Corner and another cheap gadget that has something to do with “Science!”

Chad's pick this week is form Thames and Kosmos. It's their Spark - Science in a Flash Kitchen Chemistry Kit.

Here's what Amazon says about it: Investigate with Everyday Kitchen Ingredients in Your Home. Experiment with safe materials from your kitchen, such as sugar, salt, water, baking soda, and vinegar, to learn about ten of the most important topics in chemistry. Includes petri dish, plastic pipette, test tube, pH strip and more. Requires water, salt, vinegar, baking soda, freezer, markers and scissors (all not included) This fast, fun and inexpensive kit is for ages 7+.

And Chad's take:Chad was a bit underwhelmed. For example one experiment proved that things like salt will dissolve in water. Sugar will disolve in water too. Chad also was able to divide one water drop into two water drops. There isn't a lot of stuff in the kit. The description makes it sound better than it looks on caemra, but you can see for yourself when you watch this episode. Reviews online seemed to think it's great for kids as young as six. So that age difference probably shaded Chad's reaction and the reaction of the folks in the chatroom who thought that at even $7 it was over priced. But if you have young kids, it might keep them busy (and you too, to supervise) for a few hours.

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