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When you're shopping educational toys for your child, the first thing to consider is the age of the toy. Educational toys should be age appropriate, otherwise they will not be helpful in developing skills or learning concepts. Instead of looking at specific developmental areas that children might need help with, look at their interests and how those interests can be incorporated into the toy. This will ensure that play and learn go hand in hand, allowing learning toys to develop important skills in children during their play-time. The John Adams Hot Wires kit cleverly boosts interest in experiments 2 and 3, after teaching the most basic (lighting a lamp) circuit in experiment 1. How does it do this? Well, experiment 2 uses another simple circuit to spin a motor with a fan on top, nothing too exciting, until experiment 3 encourages you to switch polarity on the fan and press the switch. The result appears the same for a few seconds, only for the fan to then whizz into the air and fly on an erratic tour of your room. The Hot Wires kit states that it is suitable for children 8+ but our six-year-old daughter Ella has been perfectly capable of putting together experiments 1-15 so far and judging by her enthusiasm she’ll be building the logic circuits (experiments 96-100) in no time.
About the Brand: John Adams Toys is a UK-based toy company that was founded in 1967. Therefore, as of 2023, the company has been in existence for over 55 years. They are best known for their excellent game sets for arts & crafts, their science and STEM range of products which has been making learning science fun. Type of Products: John Adams Toys produces a wide variety of toys for children, including board games, puzzles, outdoor games, and creative arts and crafts sets. Some of their most popular products include "Hot Wires" game, "Edible Science" game, and "Aquagelz" craft sets. Contents: transparent assembly workstation, connectors, buzzer, touch plate, photo resistor, LEDs, battery units, loudspeaker, music IC, alarm IC, sound IC, motor unit, propellor, antenna coil, lamp, bulb, microphone, power amp IC, resistors, capacitors, transistors, diode and full colour instruction booklet. Requires 4 x AA batteries (not included) John Adams For example, if a child wants to play with cars but can't yet reach them without climbing up on furniture or standing on boxes, then consider purchasing an attachment that allows them to play with cars without having to stand up or climb up things.The next thing to consider when choosing toys for children is what do we want them to learn? Do we want them to learn about animals? About colors? About counting? These are all important topics that you may want your child exposed to from an early age so that they can begin learning about these things before school starts and continue learning throughout the year. Educational toys play a big role in this, as they keep on introducing and nurturing children with educational topics, their surroundings, life skills and many more.
Hot Wires Set is the ultimate electronic starter kit. Can you beat the lie detector? There’s so much to build, and even more to experience!
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For example, if you are buying a toy for a toddler that is too advanced, they may get bored and turn to other activities while they wait for the toy to be played with. Thus, early learning toys are appropriate for toddlers, instead of too complex toys. I can’t say there have been many occasions over the last year of home schooling that I’ve genuinely looked forward to. Certainly not listening to pre-recorded lessons explaining fronted adverbials to my nine-year-old, or split diagraphs to my six-year-old. But one set of lessons I did get excited about – before they started – were the pre-recorded electronics lessons on the Oak National Academy. Which is why I was so keen to get my hands on the John Adams Hot Wires set, which looked like everything his online lessons weren’t; fun, exciting, colourful, inspiring. Basically, everything that good teaching should be. And my suspicions that this might finally provoke an interest in him were well founded. After that he was hooked, first building more complex circuits – in series and parallel – while adding resistors and light emitting diodes. He’s progressed with enthusiasm through the experiments involving light and sound and is well on his way to the lie detector and burglar alarm experiments.
Unfortunately, Harrison didn’t quite share my enthusiasm, which was disappointing as he’s always loved knowing how things work. But to be honest I could see how he wasn’t enthused, because the online lessons on building simple circuits seemed so abstract. It wasn’t hands-on, he’d watch the teacher build a circuit, then draw the circuit diagram, then say “can I have a break now?”
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