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K’nex Education Kits Review

Building toys are great for kids, because they are so open ended and allow them to have hours of fun while they learn. I recently had the chance to review a number of K’nex Education kits, and I was very impressed by how fun these kits make learning!  My kids have lots of K’nex, and have always enjoyed building with them, but these kits really take the learning to a new level.

Knex Education Kits

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Here are the four kits I received to review:

With these kits it is easy to make Physics come alive! In addition to the instruction manuals all of them also have free Teacher’s Guides online.  These guides go beyond just building the models and tell you how to design experiments and extend the learning.  Your kids can enjoy the kits with just the instruction manuals, but I’d recommend downloading the Teacher’s Guides too, even if you are just using these for your family.

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The Teacher’s Guide includes things that are easy to do, but I would not have though of!  For example in the after building a solar powered car the guide suggests testing the car with different wattage light bulbs, and seeing how close to the solar panel you have to get with each to make it move.  Then you can have your child graph the data, and learn about simple experiments, data collection and graphing.  I love it when my kids can learn while having fun.

Knex Fun

My son was happy to test these out for me.  He wanted to build a race car, so he started with the Spring racer.  He thought the spring was cool, and wanted to see how fast the car would go.

Building a Knex Spring Racer

After he got it together we ran it around the kitchen!  Then we used the Teacher’s Guide to talk about how it works, and how it changes mechanical energy to kinetic energy.  Here is a video of the racer in action!

I can’t wait try out the renewable energy models, especially the hydroelectric generator!  I like the kits so much I volunteered to use them to teach Middle School Physics at our homeschool co-op this winter, because they make learning so engaging, and don’t take much effort from me since they are so well planned out.

These kits are perfect for middle school aged children, and high schoolers will get quite a lot out of them too.  K’nex makes a great Christmas present for kids of all ages, so if you are looking for gifts that are hands on and open check out the possibilities that K’nex offers!

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By on December 13th, 2013

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