Educational science, activity, craft and assembly kits containing a wide variety of components, namely, kits for conducting experiments in the fields of chemistry, geology, earth sciences, plate tectonics, electricity, electromagnetism, solar energy, aerodynamics, architecture, engineering and radio waves; kits for constructing model volcanoes, bridges, pyramids, aircraft, and the solar system; kits for creating replicas of archeological discoveries, including cave paintings, mummies, and early hominid bones, skulls and tools; kits illustrating principles of science through illusion and magic; kits teaching principles of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, cryptography, entomology, and fingerprinting through activities; kit for constructing a home planetarium; instructional booklets sold as a unit with the foregoing