2013 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Future Scientist

Does your kid study how the toilet flushes, take things apart, tie the shop vac to the car bumper, love mixing and making food, and generally analyze how the world around him or her is made?

There's a science gift just for your child, young or small, male or female, for baking or robotics or nature. Check out this giant list that's just a smattering of educational, scientific gifts out there.

Clifford Rainbow Science

Magic School Bus Microscope Lab

Disgusting Science - the name says it all

Live Butterfly Kit

Aquascope

Rock Tumbler

Edu-toys Metal Detector

Potato Clock Kit

Edible Chemistry Set

Bubble Gum Making Kit

Creative Cosmetic Concoctions

Bicycle Drawing with Chalk

Animation Praxinoscope

Squishy Human Body

Humanworks Skeleton Assembly

Hydraulic Machines Platform Excavator

Motors & Generators Science Kit

Model Rockets

Tech Light Lab

Snap Circuit Lights

Forensice Science Detectives Kit

Science Wiz DNA Kit

LEGO Mindstorms Robot

National Geographic Kids Magazine Subscription

Kids Discover Science Magazine Packet (multiple topics)

100 Science Experiments book

Also:

PBS Teachers STEM Resource Center

LEGO Stem Education Resources

STEM Mom Homeschool Activities

Closing the STEM Gender Gap

Engaging Girls in STEM