Toybox Thursday: Educational Insights Geo Safari Tuff Scope Review & Giveaway

If you have been a follower of our blog for a while you know we love Educational Insights award-winning learning toys and hands-on educational materials.

Recently, the Lil Divas and I had the opportunity to review the 

Geo Safari Tuff Scope.

What's in the Box:

We received the 2-in-1 microscope with base and removable scope. It's features include:  400x magnification  2x continuous zoom  reflective LED lighting storage drawer we also received 3 Slides (2 blank & 1 sample of cotton fiber)  Note: The Tuff Scope does require 3AA batteries which are not included.

 

The Tuff Scope can be set up as a exploration station - 

perfect for home and/or school use.

The Lil Divas definitely enjoyed looking at the cotton fiber slide that came with the scope and we had fun exploring a piece of my hair -

 they couldn't believe how "weird" it looked magnified! :)

You can even remove the microscope from the base and explore on the go

- but you need a sunny day to really see through the scope this way!

We set out on a cloudy day (FL rainy season) and couldn't see much.

We are looking forward to trying this again on a nice sunny day.

Overall, the Lil Divas really enjoyed their experience with the Geo Safari Tuff Scope. The Littlest Diva especially kept searching for things to study all over the house.

I would love to find other slides or things to explore with the scope -

this is definitely a tool we will make use of to help incorporate some fun science into our lessons at home.

I am so excited that the kind people at Educational Insights will be giving the Geo Safari Tuff Scope  to one lucky Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas follower!

I just know you will love it and get creative doing some fun hands-on science explorations with it!

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Buy It: Purchase the Geo Safari Tuff Scope at Educational Insights website.

Win It: Educational Insights has graciously agreed to giveaway

One (1) Geo Safari Tuff Scope

to One (1) lucky Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas Reader!

How to Enter:

**Contest ends on 7/28/11**

 One (1) lucky Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas reader

(US Residents Only!) is going to receive:

(1) Geo Safari Tuff Scope

Mandatory Entry:

Let's get a little creative and tell me something you would like to magnify/explore using Educational Insight's Geo Safari Tuff Scope

**The Mandatory Entry must be completed in order for any of the extra entries to count**

Extra Entries (Optional)

Please leave a seperate comment

for each entry &

please include your e-mail

so I can get back to you if you win! 

*If you are already a follower leave a comment and let me know as that will count as an entry*

1. Follow Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas Publicly via Google Friend Connect  (+2) leave 2 comments
2. "Like" Educational Insights on facebook 
3. Follow Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas on Twitter  (+2) leave 2 comments
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6. Make a comment on any non-giveaway post on Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas Blog and leave a link.  You can do this for up to 5 posts but please note that comment must be dated after the start date of this post - not valid on previous comments. (+2) leave 2 comments
7. Tweet about this giveaway and leave a link - can be done once a day
   
   Tweet: #Win an @ed_insights Geo Safari Tuff Scope w/@Momto2PoshDivas ends 7/28 #giveaway #homeschool #kinderchat #science http://t.co/7jd9Cjn

Giveaway Rules:
Giveaway ends 7/28/2011 at 11:59 (PDT)
Winner will be chosen via random.org. 
& contacted via email if an email is given .
Winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize.

Please note any entries that can not be verified will be disqualified.

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Disclaimer:I received the Geo Safari Tuff Scope for the purposes of trying them out for this review. That being said, this review is my 100% honest opinion of this product - I  am not paid for my reviews or optinions! They are 100% mine! Please remember that your opinions and tastes might differ from mine. 

Good Luck,

Bern