Smithsonian Exploration Station: World Atlas, Human Body, and the Solar System (Silver Dolphin Books) [Review & Giveaway]

Read on and be sure you enter-to-win the 3-set giveaway. These are choice items to seek out for Christmas or special time gifts!

Kids can enjoy being educated if you present the material to them in an enticing manner. The tools and toys geared toward presenting the text with hands-on equipment grab and hold their attention. 

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The Smithsonian Exploration Station: Space (ISBN: 978-1626867222, $21.99)!

My thoughts:  From the moment I picked up the Exploration Station Solar System box I was enchanted. Not in a sweet or cutesy way but by the amount of material this set presents to the child. While slated for the age 6 to 8 year old, I see where this information and set can also fascinate up through the 12 year age bracket.

As I began to look through the box and seeing  the little figures (men and rockets), the glow-in-the-dark stars, and the sheets of stickers, I felt confident these items would make for fun time activities. The solar chart poster is nice. The book is filled with a variety of information that enables the child to peruse, delve into aspects of the solar system, and perhaps whet the appetite for further research.

An educationally sound and entertaining gift.


About the book and set: Take a trip through the stratosphere with the Smithsonian!

Take a trip into the stratosphere with Smithsonian Exploration Station: Space! With informative text and full-color photographs, young astronomers will learn about the intricate makeup of our solar system as well as distant galaxies and constellations. The 56-page fact book combined with the sticker sheet, space figurines to play with, and the glow-in-the-dark stars make this space experience interactive and engaging.

Includes:

• 56-page fact book
• 30 stickers
• 22 glow-in-the-dark stars
• 2 figurines (astronaut and rocket)

I highly recommend this set so the young child, or one a bit older, and explore the vastness that is our solar system.

Smithsonian Exploration Station: Human Body (978-1626867215, $21.99)

My thoughts:  When my children were growing up they constructed from kits various parts of the human body - eye, organs, skeleton. They were kids that enjoyed putting together kits and painting them. They especially liked to learn about the human body and how it works.

As "The Mom" I was always looking for ways to enrich my children's play time with constructive play. These kits provided that. The kits of those days didn't come with informative books - just instructions on how it went together and maybe a little about how that part worked.

This set, though geared toward the younger elementary child can easily span a few more years for educational entertainment. It might surprise you to see how fascinated your child is with the pursuit of knowledge when it is presented so entertainingly.

I highly recommend.

About the book and set: Discover the amazing systems in the human body with the Smithsonian!

Discover what makes your blood pump and your muscles stretch in this hands-on learning experience! With fascinating facts, full-color photographs, a plastic model skeleton, and 25 fact cards, Smithsonian Exploration Station: Human Body is a fun, engaging way to learn about the inner workings of the complex systems that make the human body.Discover what makes your blood pump and your muscles stretch in this hands-on learning experience! With fascinating facts, full-color photographs, a plastic model skeleton, and 25 fact cards, Smithsonian Exploration Station: Human Body is a fun, engaging way to learn about the inner workings of the complex systems that make the human body.

Includes:

• 56-page fact book
• 30 stickers
• 1 plastic model skeleton (13 pieces)
• 25 fact cards

Smithsonian Exploration Station: World Atlas (ISBN: 978-1626867208, $21.99)

My thoughts:  So many children travel extensively so they are already familiar with the World and what is in the different parts of our globe. This dynamic set that includes a book that will enrich one's knowledge of the Atlas facts of the World but also has the entertaining and fun cardstock models that can be constructed.

Stickers provide opportunities for more hands-on and fun activities to implant information in the mind. Facilitating learning via the entertainment mode is absolutely a highly desired method to education.

I recommend this set for the expansion of one's knowledge of our World.

About the book and set: Go on a globetrotting adventure with the Smithsonian! Head off on a globetrotting adventure in this interactive atlas! Learn about the diverse cultures, customs, wildlife, and natural beauty that form our world through informative text and full-color photograph. Children will love the hands-on aspect to learning as they blow up their inflatable globe and build the cardstock models of some of the wonders of the world. Smithsonian Exploration Station: World Atlas is the perfect way to engage kids in the amazing world around them!

Includes:

• 56-page fact book
• 30 stickers
• 1 inflatable globe
• 3 cardstock models to assemble: the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, and a Mayan pyramid

Prize is a set of all 3 of the Smithsonian book/kits.
Total value Approx. $65.00

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DISCLOSURE: I received all 3 sets from MMPublicity on behalf of Siver Dolphin Books to facilitate this review. Opinions are mine alone and are freely given. Prize is provided and sent directly to the winner by either MMPublicity or the publisher, Silver Dolphin Books.