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Learning Resources Inflatable Solar System Set
July 10, 2010 by destiny
Category Preschool Learning System Reviews | Tags: , Inflatable, learning, Resources, Solar, System
the product is every colorful and easy to use. The quality of workmanship in not so hot.
Product was not as described. Planets were supposed to be to scale, but they were not even close. The sizes of the planets were wrong in relation to one another (were bigger than when they should have been smaller than another planet).
This is not very useful for education. I don’t expect the sun to be to scale, because that wouldn’t be practical, but I would like the planets to be close to scale. That’s why I bought it in the first place. This one went in our Goodwill box, because it was too late to return by the time I opened it.
I wouldn’t even recommend this for decoration, since it gives false info. For instance you wouldn’t put a mislabeled map of the world in your kids room, would you? They’d learn from it, but the info would be wrong. Same thing with this set. Planets are not labeled (so teacher can quiz kids on this).
Nice try. If only they would take this to one more revision.
My 6 year old son is fascinated with the Solar System. He picked this set off of Amazon. It was more expensive than the other sets available but we are very happy with our purchase. The package arrived a day early which was impressive. We ended up hanging them (all but the humongous sun) from the ceiling in our playroom with thread and stick on hooks. They look great!
This is a great product and very real depiction of the planets. Great visual in the classroom!
The pump is essentially worthless. It took less time to blow them up manually. The small planets are very misshapen. The shape is more like that of a lemon than a sphere. All but 2 did not hold air more than a day or two. Saturn looks like it has pieces of shoddy, plastic-encased scaffolding hanging off of it. Very disappointing.