So maybe their website looks like it was designed by the Cyber Dsign Clan, but perhaps Harris Educational’s website is meant to evoke a more simple time in web design to reflect the retro-gadget science kits they sell, including the ‘Build Your Own Telegraph’ kit (“Take Text Messaging to a Whole New Level!”) or the ‘Build Your Own Lightbulb’ kit that allows students to create a real, functioning light bulb with a partial vacuum that burns for up to five minutes. They kits even look the part, with sturdy wooden bases — none of that cheap plastic crap for my son’s telegraph — and metal switches. Although each kit is sold through a number of different retailers, it looks like each one rings up between $40 and $65 or so.
Hands on is the best science learning there is. Watching my 7th Grade science teacher shatter a banana with liquid nitrogen will always be indelibly frozen into my memory — he never did explain why we had to be naked for it to work, though.
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