ScienceWiz® Inventions STEM Club Edition: This multi-award winning book and kit uses everyday materials to build a spinning motor, a clicking telegraph, a light-flashing generator and a real radio. The use of simple materials (no plastic required) helps to demystify the why as well as the how. The Stem Club Edition includes a step by step, fully-illustrated, 40 page book that makes the projects very doable and the explanations easy to understand. It also includes a 36 page workbook packed with related activities that link to online explorations. Decode the secret password embedded in the workbook to earn an achievement badge. Imagine building a working radio using only aluminum foil, wire and a diode. That’s it. No battery required. Imagine making a spinning motor using only paper clips, a magnet, a bit of wire and a battery. Light a bulb by spinning a coil of wire next to a bar magnet. Make a telegraph click and send coded messages to a friend using just two paper clips, a nail, wire and a battery. Every day materials, indeed!

These are all inventions with coils. With them you can explore the discoveries of Michael Faraday and Nikola Tesla, scientists and inventors whose work was essential to the creation of the electrical grid.