Pathfinders Catapult Kit

Pathfinders Catapult Kit

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Add a little levity along with education, the Pathfinders Catapult Kit is reliable learning and smashing good fun.

Create your own working replica of one of the most infamous and powerful of medieval siege engines - the catapult!

This building toy is the exact style of catapult used during the Middle Ages - only wood and rope, joined by wooden dowels. There are no screws or nails in this design! No elastic, no rubber, no motor, no batteries, just good old fashioned, incredible innovation. The device's swing arms rely on pure physics to send projectiles flying.

Use your to-scale model catapult, to bring down the smallest of walls. Shoot a ball of modeling clay over 15 feet when properly tuned! Loads of fun to build and use. As a science project, action toy, or desk toy, the Pathfinders toy catapult is innovation beyond expectations.

Pathfinders kits are the real thing completely based on historic machines - designed by Derek Wulff, a science educator in British Columbia.

Pathfinders Catapult Science Kit

Objects fly 10 ft or more - imaginations fly further

Discover science principles in assembly & exploration of a working device

Put together basics of physics, engineering, devices of antiquity, history

Explore the links between design, materials, and technology

Educational notes about the catapult as a siege engine are included

Kit includes wood and rope for construction

Modeling clay included- for creation of ammunition

Completed catapult: 6 in tall x 5 in wide x 10 in long

Wood glue or white glue is required for assembly, not included

All pieces are pre-cut & drilled

Safety instructions included

Assembly time: 1-2 hours

Use with adult supervision

Building this catapult allows children and adults to explore the link between design, materials and technology. Just a few extensions of play possibilities are below:

Test different weights of projectiles

Make predictions and measure distances

Experiment with tension, torsion, traction and gravity

Study trajectory and use of a power source for hurling objects

Learn basic mechanical principles; adapt simple materials for useful, effective tools

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NOTE: The orange color in the charts above indicate ages that are LESS than the manufacturer suggested age. Please purchase at your discretion if your child is younger than 10 years of age.

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UPC	094922617170

Manufacturer SKU	PFC01

Date Added to Fat Brain Toys	3/13/2006

Manufactured In	Peoples Republic of China

Manufacturer Recommended Minimum Age	10 years

Fat Brain Toys Monthly Sales Ranking	#531

WARNING:
CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts.

Not for children under 3 yrs.

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Average Customer Rating:	4.38 (site average 4.56)
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Posted 19 days ago by HL

Great product, fully functional, fun build.

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Posted 1/2/2013

My grandson loved the catapult. He was able to assemble it himself and has spent hours playing with it!

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Posted 12/2/2012 by Diane DeVito

Its a xmas present sp he hasn't opened it yet

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Posted 6/25/2012 by MELODY BRENNAN

This was purchased as a teachers gift for my sons 4th grade teacher. His teacher teaches Science and one of their units they studied LEVERS. We had purchased a trebuchet kit for my son, which we built, and he brought it in to school to demonstrate. The class loved it. So we purchased the catapult as a gift so that he could build it and share it with his future science cases when the are studying levers! The teacher loved this gift!

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Posted 3/13/2012

My son is 8 and needed help assembling the toy. Once it was assembled he was able to play with it and enjoy it himself.

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