Elmer's Education Mythbusters Weird World of Water
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Scientific ExplorerBrand: Elmer's
Release Date: 2009-04-30
Model: E2122
Product features:
- Launch your own water powered rocket
- The secrets of these myths and more revealed
- Test the power of whirlpools
- Create a liquid rainbow
- Learn how to walk on water
Toys and Games Reviews of Elmer's Education Mythbusters Weird World of Water
Customer Review: Who wrote the instructions?
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't know who wrote the instructions, but complete steps certainly would help. I advised my son to get his feet wet with the easiest experiment first: making different sugar water solutions, adding food coloring, then adding one to the other drop by drop to create a liquid rainbow as the colors separate out due to differing water densities. Not too difficult and visually rewarding. However, when you have to fight the instructions each step of the way the fun dissipates fairly quickly. Step one states to pour 1 tablespoon of water in the cylinder, but the picture shows the water poured into one of the 1-liter bottles in the kit. Which is it, the cylinder or the bottle? Well, since one tablespoon of water doesn't even fill the five feet protruding at the base of the bottle we opted for the cylinder. Also, the instructions do specifically state cylinder and there is a cylinder in the kit. The cylinder is the wrong choice, but you don't discover the mistake until a few steps later. At which point, you have to start over. Another step instructs you to add a tablespoon of sugar to cups of clear and yellow water. The child is not instructed to mix it or let the sugar sit in an undissolved pile at the bottom of the cup. I advised my son to stir the water until the sugar was completely dissolved, which he did. Since the object of the experiment was to establish different water densities, this seemed what the designers of the kit want the child to do. After a tedious half hour spent adding first the clear then the yellow solution drop by drop to the red water, my son ended up with a cylinder/bottle of uniformly pale red sugar water. No rainbow. No fun. Was he supposed to leave the solutions unmixed? Was he supposed to use all the food coloring provided in the kit or just a few drops to change the color of the water? Who knows? And I don't blame him for not caring enough to repeat the now boring (instead of fun) experiment to find out where things went wrong. And all this disappointment because the instructions are more interested in being quippy and cute rather than complete. You have to love the irony of step six: "Repeat the above step with the yellow sugar water. Isn't that colorful?" No, it's not.
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