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What is a Globe?
Globe is a model of the Earth. Since the Earth is round, this helps us see the shape, size and position of countries and oceans better than on a flat map. At any given time, we can see only one side of the globe educational toys online Australia. The big areas made in blue represents water and are called Oceans. The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean. There are 4 oceans in all, the other are the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Antarctic Ocean. The seas are smaller water bodies than the oceans.The big areas in shades of green and brown represent land and are called continents. Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Antarctica are the 7 continents of the world. These continents are further divided into countries and countries into cities and towns.

Some facts regarding Globe :

1. A globe is a picture of a planet drawn on a shape. It is like a scale model of the planet.
2. The word globe comes from the Latin word Globus meaning Round mass or Sphere.
3. Most globes are maps of Earth. The most common types are political and physical.
4. Political globes show countries. Physical globe shows landscape like mountains and rivers.
5. Global as an adjective is used to mean the entire world rather than any special place.

What is Weather?

The Weather is important to peoples as it affects their comfort, food, their’safety and easy science experiments for kids. Weather is the daily state of the atmosphere, or air at any place. The weather is more than wind or rain, but also includes so many stunning effects like Rainbow, flashes of lightening and sunset etc. Our lives can be affected by weather as it decides what we wear or what we decide to do?

Why Weather is caused?

Weather is caused by heat from the sun and movement of the air on earth’s surface. All weather happens in the lower layer of earth’s surface. The sun heat warms the air in this layer to a different temperature level at different places. Warm air is light, so it rises, and cold air rushes in beneath to replace it. This movement of air is called wind, which causes change in the weather.

Types of Weather

• Wind : the natural movement of the air in the form of current of air blowing direction.
• Climate : the weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period oftime.
• Lightning : a flash of light in the sky due to the electrical dischargev between clouds or between a cloud and earth’s surface.
• Snowfall : the quantity of snow falling within a given area in a given time.
• Hurricanes : a storm wind with a violent wind is called a tropical cyclone.
• Tornadoes : a destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud.
• Thunderstorms : a storm with thunder and lightning and typically heavy
  rain and hail.
• Earthquakes : a sudden violent shaking of the ground due to the
  movement within earth crust, causing destruction.
• Volcanoes : is a mountain from which hot melted rocks, gas, steam, and
  ash from the inside the earths erupts.

• 6 in 1 Solar kit: Build your own robot, wheeler, windmill, plane, Helicopter or air boat with great fun without bearing any expenses for batteries. With this 6 in 1 solar kit, you can combine your science knowledge, environmental protection and practical ability by building 6 different models. This Solar kit is easy enough for children to build and they will be learning more about the surprising benefits of solar power.

• Balance bird:  The balancing bird is an educational toys for school that teaches more about the concept of gravity located at the tip of the beak. The center of gravity is a special point on an object. It’s the point at which the mass of the body is perfectly balanced. This toy helps the children to learn more about the concept of Newton’s law of universal gravitation and children gathers the full knowledge of it.

• Magnifying lens: Magnifying glass is also known as hand lens in laboratory contexts. It is a convex lens that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens of this is mounted in a frame with a handle. This magnifying lens toy helps your child to learn about the lenses while playing. It helps in teaching about focus light, image formation. This toy also builds strong command on physics section of your child.

• Balloon race car:  A simple balloon race car is loaded with physics and engineering concepts. In this activity your child will learn some physics concepts and use recycled materials to build a toy car that is propelled by a balloon. When you inflate a balloon, it stores potential energy in the form of stretched rubber and the compressed air inside. When you release the balloon, this energy is converted into kinetic energy – the energy of motion – as the  balloon zooms around the room. This way it will also help the child to learn about the law of energy and how one energy gets converted into other form of energy.

• Racing car F1 air power toy: This toy educates about the physical science with fun to the children. This F1 air power racing car is handmade car with science experiments which helps your child to learn about wind energy and make them learn how to deal with the environmental pollution by using various techniques.

• Helicopter spiral pop top: This toy comes with a shooter, twist it by your hand and disc fly away. It’s a funny and great toy for children to play with friends and parents on the yard or lawn. Kids can even play with their grandparents and enjoy the fun. This toy is environmental friendly.

• Rubber band plane: This toy is a fun time toy for kids. This toy is easy to assemble. It simply slot the parts together and then wind up the rubber bands using the plane propeller, then launches into the skies. It also simply winds up with the fingers with the excellent flying performance.

• Rubik’s cube: it is a cube split into number of smaller cubes with different colored faces attached to a rotating piece of metal in the middle. It has 6 sides with 9 little cubes attached to it and each side has one color. The cubes can be twisted and rotated along roes and faces. The aim of the puzzle is to make each face of the cube have the same color. Solving a cube requires logic and thinking. It enhances the mathematical section of your child too and enhances the thinking power of the child.

• High bounce balls: Small, tiny, handy balls are the all- time purpose playing balls. These tiny bouncing balls are easy to carry anywhere and teach your child about the force and energy which increases the knowledge in science. These bouncy balls, power ball is a small rubber bouncing ball which rebounds proportionally to the amount of force used when thrown at a hard surface.

• Magnet with “I am switchedonkids” : It is a small magnet which reminds a child that he/she is a steam learning kid which means they need to learn more through educational toys while playing with fun. They can play, learn and grow wisely with accurate and practical knowledge they will be getting with these toys. It also inspires a parent or grandparent that they need to support and motivate their child in this manner so that their child can play more and gathers the developing STEM skills education at home, schools and surroundings too..

• Slime: Slime toy is a gooey, sticky substance made by mixing a compound called sodium borate or borax with water. It has a thick, glue like textured and can be made in variety of colors. It is a fun time toy for kids which keeps them engaged in creating various things out which not only increases their creativity skills rather it also helps them in future handwriting skills as children can use slime to create vertical and horizontal lines, circle shapes, cross shapes and many more and all these things are needed for handwriting skills.