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The FANTASTIC
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- Page 1 E X PE R I M E NT M A N UA L The FANTASTIC U n derwat e r S cience VOYAGE Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Pfizerstr. 5-7, 70184 Stuttgart, Germany | +49 (0) 711 2191-0 | www.kosmos.de Thames &...
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Page 2: Safety Information
Safety Information Warning! Not suitable for children under 3 years. Choking hazard — small parts may be swallowed or inhaled. Strangulation hazard — long tubes and cords may become wrapped around the neck. WARNING! Only for use by children aged 8 years and older. Instructions for parents or other supervising adults are included and have to be observed. - Page 3 Agnes Pockels • Once said: “Only someone who is compassionate toward herself can show compassion toward others.” It was really fun to have shared this adventure with you! I hope you’d like to have many more. Bye!
- Page 4 Dear Parents and Adult Supervisors This STEM experiment kit gives your child a fun Children in this age group are at different stages way to discover the basic principles of physics. of development, so you can decide in advance The kit includes everything needed for the which experiments your child can do alone, and experiments, except batteries and a few other where your help will be needed.
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Page 5: Kit Contents
Kit Contents Make sure you have all of the components of your kit and check them off: No. Description Qty. Item No. No. Description Qty. Item No. Wood sheet, plain 720575 11 Bubble wand 720725 Wood sheet with 12 Axle, short 720726 printed illustrations 720575... - Page 6 Table of Contents Tip! Flag Ship’s crane Giant Snapper The wonder of water...
- Page 8 The Expedition Begins Pepper headed into the local aquarium and walked straight over to the new saltwater tank. A tall man with unruly hair and a clipboard was standing in front of the empty tank. His name was Mr. Eisenbart, and he was the director of the aquarium.
- Page 9 Research Vessel and the YOU NEED … 2 x wood sheets with illustrations 3 x plain wood sheets HERE’S HOW! Push the purple-colored side panels onto the base panel of the ship from the right and left. You’ll need to push the tabs sticking out from the sides of the base panel into the notches in the side panels.
- Page 10 To build the little cabin, assemble the three teal-colored wooden pieces by sliding the middle section down onto the two side walls. The colored sides of the panels should be facing inward. Next, slide the top horizontal panel into the horizontal slots and push it in fully.
- Page 11 The Wonder of Water Pepper stood wide-eyed on the deck, staring at Mr. Eisenbart’s pale, hairy legs. The team had barely finished loading the ship with their provisions for the next few weeks and moving into their cabins below deck when the aquarium director had swapped his dusty suit for a pair of colorful shorts and a light shirt.
- Page 12 Wonder of Water and the YOU NEED … 2 x plain wood sheets 2 x syringes 10-cm tube You will also need: tap water, ruler, scissors, watercolor paint (or dye) HERE’S HOW! Assemble the syringe holder by sliding the two legs into the holder, one from the front and the other from behind.
- Page 13 Place the full syringe, with the plunger pulled out, into the syringe holder. To do this, carefully thread the tube through one of the holes, pulling it down gently from above, until the syringe is suspended from the holder. Place an empty syringe, with the plunger fully pushed in, into a hole at the other side of the holder and connect the free end of the tube that’s filled with water to...
- Page 14 Flag and the YOU NEED … Flag from cardboard sheet Mast 20-cm string You will also need: Ruler, scissors, and craft glue HERE’S HOW! Remove the Pepper Mint flag from the cardboard sheet and lay it down with the back side facing up. Fold the 20-cm piece of string in half, so that each end is of equal length, then place the string down the center line of the flag, with the loop at the top.
- Page 15 Storm on the Horizon Having quickly tired of watching the rolling waves and unchanging horizon, Pepper turned her gaze to the bridge. Now that she understood why the ship wasn’t going to sink, she wondered how it was going to be able to find its way to the Bermuda Triangle. It obviously couldn’t read a map, and the open ocean all looked the same.
- Page 16 Rocking Waves and the YOU NEED … 2 x syringes 30-cm tube You will also need: ruler, scissors, tap water, adhesive tape, paper towels HERE’S HOW! Remove the mast and the cabin. Turn your ship upside-down. Use the scissors to cut a 30-cm length of tube, with a straight edge at the end, and then connect this tube to a syringe.
- Page 17 Insert the cabin into the base panel, and position the tube firmly between the syringe and the top of the cabin so that it can’t move. Make sure that there are no kinks in the tube. Slowly push the plunger of the full syringe inward.
- Page 18 In the Bermuda Triangle Pepper spent the next few hours below deck, clinging to the frame of her bunk bed as tightly as she could. Maybe now would be a good time to call her mother and confess that she had been the one responsible for the explosion in their cellar because her test tube stand had fallen over.
- Page 19 Nature of Water AND THE YOU NEED ... You will also need: tap water, paper clips, soap or dishwashing liquid, coins HERE’S HOW! Fill two thirds of your tub with tap water. Carefully place a paper clip or pin onto the surface of the water.
- Page 20 Fill up your tub to the brim with clean tap water. Drop small coins into the tub one by one, until the water overflows. WHAT’S HAPPENING The coins displace the water and raise the water’s surface so that it spills out over the edge of the tub.
- Page 21 Save the Expedition! The storm brought the research ship into exactly the area that Mr. Eisenbart had marked with a red “X” on his marine chart. Somewhere in the vast expanse of water around them swam a specimen of strange fish that they would hopefully take home with them to study at the city aquarium.
- Page 22 Ship’s Crane and the YOU NEED ... 3 x plain wooden sheets Cardboard 1 x 30-cm tube, sheet 1 x 20-cm tube 4 x syringes 3 x 2-piece 10-cm screws string You will also need: ruler, scissors, adhesive tape, tap water, large flat-head screwdriver HERE’S HOW! Use one of the screws to attach the base of the crane to the precut opening in the base panel...
- Page 23 Ship’s Crane and the The crane will be operated using two hydraulic syringes. You can see in the pictures how to set up the syringes using the connector piece from the cardboard sheet. Make sure that the thumb rest of the syringe plunger is held securely within the assembled connector.
- Page 24 You can now move the arm of your crane up and down. Next you’ll install a hydraulic system on the base panel to allow the crane to rotate to the left and to the right. Turn your ship upside down. Remove one of the connectors from the cardboard sheet, attach it to an empty syringe, and hook it onto the underside of the crane.
- Page 26 Giant Snapper Ahead By that afternoon, the hydraulic crane was working again and nothing stood in the way of their first dive at the Bermuda Triangle. The fearless Mr. Eisenbart was to be the first to climb into the diving chamber and let the crane lower him 200 meters deep into the water.
- Page 27 Giant Snapper and the YOU NEED ... Cardboard sheet 2 x plain wood sheets wood sheets with short illustrations axles 1 x long axle 2 x Syringes 20-cm tube You will also need: ruler, scissors, tap water, adhesive tape HERE’S HOW! Remove all of the rectangular parts with three precut holes in them from the wooden sheet.
- Page 28 Next, sandwich the handles on either side of the syringe between two wooden supports; slide one along the barrel of the syringe until it’s in front of the handles, and slide the other over the plunger behind the handles. Pass a wooden rectangle with two hooks through the connector.
- Page 30 Shimmering Spheres After an experience like that, anyone else might have reconsidered their love of fish — but not Mr. Eisenbart, who now seemed more attached than ever to the importance of his mission. Quite by accident he had discovered a new species, and nothing was going to stop him from presenting it to the world and outdoing his research colleagues once and for all.
- Page 31 Ship’s Propeller and the YOU NEED ... Illustrated wooden sheet Plain wood sheets Motor Propeller Battery compartment with wires 2 x springs You will also need: 2 x AA batteries (1.5-volt, type LR6/Mignon) HERE’S HOW! Slot the two side pieces onto the pins protruding from either side of the motor casing.
- Page 32 Ask your parents to insert the batteries into the battery compartment. The note below shows how to do this. Place the battery compartment into the hollow space under the motor. Move the switch to the “OFF” position and connect the red wire from the battery compartment to the spring that you previously connected to the red wire from the motor.
- Page 33 WHAT’S HAPPENING You have just created an electrical circuit. Electricity flows from the battery through the wires that you connected to the springs, into the motor, and then back to the battery again. The motor axle rotates, which causes the propeller to rotate on its own axle.
- Page 34 Bubbles AND THE Turn your ship’s propeller YOU NEED ... into a bubble-blowing machine! Stirrer Bubble wand You will also need: tap water, tablespoon, sugar, dishwashing liquid (the “Dawn” brand works well), or bubble-blowing solution HERE’S HOW! To make the bubble-blowing liquid: Fill half of your tub with water, add three level tablespoons of sugar and one tablespoon of dishwashing liquid.
- Page 35 Superstars of science • He painted the “Mona Lisa” and used water to power many of his experiments:...
- Page 36 Kosmos Quality and Safety More than one hundred years of expertise in publishing science experiment kits stand behind every product that bears the Kosmos name. Kosmos experiment kits are designed by an experienced team of specialists and tested with the utmost care during development and production.