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Library of Things: Junior: STEM Kits

Borrow items for fun and learning. Items can be checked out for 3 weeks at a time.

Addition

Addition

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With three different games to play, you can learn the basics of addition with ease! Check your math skills on the self-checking math machine, match the answer to the correct math equation with dominoes, and brave the tower of math to see who can win the most pieces, or who causes the tower to tumble.

Area & Perimeter

Area & Perimeter

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A hands-on way for students to master area and perimeter.

Automobile Engineer

Automobile Engineer

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Read the funny story of Karlie and Ty Omega, two inquisitive kids who build simple models of the vehicles they encounter on their comical trip to the supermarket with their dad. Along this roundabout journey, the kids build various vehicles to help the people in their town solve problems and complete tasks. As you follow the story, you can build models of the 10 vehicles in the story. Large, colorful plastic building pieces make it easy for small hands to put the models together.

Bee-Bot

Bee-Bot

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Programmable floor robot, ideal for teaching control, directional language and programming to young children.

Botley the Coding Robot

Botley the Coding Robot

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Botley pairs hands-on, 100% screen-free coding with advanced features including object detection and black line following. So, it's easy to get started but challenging enough to grow with your coding skills.

Bridge Building Center

Bridge Building Center

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Engineer and build one-of-a-king bridges!

Bugs Discovery Kit

Bugs Discovery Kit

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Get an up-close look at 12 amazing bugs--from a leaf beetle to a lantern fly! Each real specimen is permanently encased in indestructible acrylic, so kids can safely explore them from every angle. Then learn about the different life cycles some of these insects experience using the interactive magnet tin.

Circuit Maze: Electric Current Logic Game

Circuit Maze: Electric Current Logic Game

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Complete the circuit to light the beacons and you WIN!

Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set

Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set

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Build your maze, and then use the coding cards to create a step-by-step path for the Programmable Robot Mouse. Program the sequence of steps, and then watch the mouse race to find the cheese!

Color Chameleon

Color Chameleon

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Kids can use this cute little friend to scan the paint splats and Chameleon will 'turn' that color and say what it is! Or, they can spread the paint splats on the floor, pick a play mode and be prompted to follow directions, sing, count, play games, and more! They can even try scanning other things, like a block or book, and see what happens.

Colors

Colors

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Practice your colors and other early skills such as numbers, hand-eye coordination, patterns, and more. All with the help of colorful dinosaurs and a beautiful fruit filled pie!

Create-a-Chain Reaction

Create-a-Chain Reaction

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Our super-engaging kit lets children set up ramps, pendulums, hammers, and more--then send a ball racing down the track and into the goal! Perfect for exploring early STEM concepts such as gravity, motion, and force, our kit is packed with open-ended building pieces. Plus, leveled challenge cards help kids build and test a variety of courses and chain reactions.

Cubelets Curiosity Set

Cubelets Curiosity Set

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Fuel curiosity with Cubelets robot blocks. Make more robots with the new curiosity set. The Cubelets curiosity set expands your robot building horizons with 10 sense, think, and act Cubelets, as well as the Bluetooth hat. A unique blend of hardware and software, Cubelets make it easier than ever to explore robotics, coding, and other big ideas. Snap together the magnetic faces to build hundreds of robot constructions.

Division

Division

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With two different games to play, you can learn the basics of division with ease! Check your math skills on the self-checking math machine, and brave the tower of math to see who can win the most pieces, or who causes the tower to tumble.

Don't Lose Your Marbles Lab

Don't Lose Your Marbles Lab

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The four activities in this lab give students a practical way to explore two fundamental science concepts: energy and motion. By challenging students to apply problem-solving skills and collaborate, these activities promote teamwork, inquiry, and logical reasoning.

Electronic Snap Circuits

Electronic Snap Circuits

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Build over 300 exciting projects. Have fun learning all about electronics.

First Physics Lab

First Physics Lab

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Build models and conduct experiments to learn mechanical physics.

Gears! Gears! Gears! Starter Building Set

Gears! Gears! Gears! Starter Building Set

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Set imaginations in colorful motion! Introduce young builders to the world of gears with this starter set featuring fun, bright new colors and kid-friendly pieces for easy construction. Invites 'little engineers' to discover a world of building possibilities while developing critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Geometric Shapes Kit

Geometric Shapes Kit

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Students build 2-D and 3-D as they develop a solid understanding of geometry concepts.

Gravity Maze: Falling Marble Logic Game

Gravity Maze: Falling Marble Logic Game

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This gravity powered logic maze is sure to put your visual perception and reasoning skills to the test. The towers can be arranged in a wide variety of visually stimulating structures but, for each challenge, you'll have to think carefully to build a path that will carry your marble to the Target Tower.

Green Alternative Energy Snap Circuits

Green Alternative Energy Snap Circuits

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With the Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits Green Alternative Energy Kit, kids can get a hands-on, entertaining education about what green energy means. This innovative kit contains real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices, featuring projects designed specifically to illustrate different sources of electricity. 

Introduction to Earth Science

Introduction to Earth Science

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A great beginner collection with a variety of rocks and minerals.

JuniorScope: The Ultimate Microscope for Kids

JuniorScope: The Ultimate Microscope for Kids

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Unlike other children's microscopes the JuniorScope has precision glass optics, is easy to use and gives a crystal clear image of what is on the slide. To top it off the JuniorScope is two microscopes in one. You get a lower power microscope for looking at solid objects like leaves and insects and a high power microscope for looking at transparent objects like blood cells and bacteria.

Magformers

Magformers

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Infinite creative building to shape young minds.

Makey Makey

Makey Makey

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Makey Makey is a fun-for-all educational stem kit that brings engineering and coding concepts to life in exciting new ways. Turn bananas into touchpads! Craft your own video game controller! If you can imagine it, you can make it! The possibilities for experiments and creations are limitless. With no software required or programming knowledge needed, the easy-to-setup kit is ready in seconds and lets you dive right into scientific fun that will inspire creative and inventive minds.

Marbulous Marble Run

Marbulous Marble Run

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As children create exciting courses and send marbles racing down the track, they build planning skills and learn to think like engineers!

Motion Snap Circuits

Motion Snap Circuits

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The motion kit is focused on physics and things that 'move' like pulleys, fans, and motion detectors. Like the other sets, Snap Circuits gives your child a hands-on education in how electrical circuits work to run the everyday devices that they're familiar with.

Multiplication

Multiplication

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With three different games to play, you can learn the basics of multiplication with ease! Check your math skill son the self-checking math machine, match the answer to the correct math equation with dominoes, and brave the tower of math to see who can win the most pieces, or who causes the tower to tumble.

Osmo: Amazing Airships

Osmo: Amazing Airships

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Build your Math Wizard skills with Amazing Airships! Join Rupert the robot mouse in building and designing airships for the many islands of Spellbarrow Port! Using mathematical thinking, plus Rupert's magical wrench, you'll deliver packages and navigate through challenges like thunderstorms and high winds.

Osmo: Coding Starter Kit

Osmo: Coding Starter Kit

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String together commands to guide Awbie on an epic adventure; arrange coding blocks in patterns and loops to compose your own music; or solve advanced side-by-side puzzles solo or with a friend!

Osmo: Detective Agency

Osmo: Detective Agency

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Run your own detective agency! Travel to six famous cities, inspect hundreds of clues with your magnifying glass, and learn about geography and cultures around the world!

Osmo: Early Elementary Kit

Osmo: Early Elementary Kit

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Build with colorful rings, experiment with colors, and find silly solutions to obstacles as you play along with the four different games included in this kit.

Osmo: Elementary Kit

Osmo: Elementary Kit

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Arrange puzzles into animals or spaceships, guide falling balls into targets, and learn to draw anything as you play along with five different games included in this kit.

Osmo: Enchanted World Games

Osmo: Enchanted World Games

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Learn advanced addition, understand multiplication as repeated addition, and practice skills through hands-on play on a math adventure! Real-time targeted teaching tips help kids learn through experimentation and build confidence.

Osmo: Fantastic Food Truck

Osmo: Fantastic Food Truck

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Build your Math Skills! Join Chef Reina and her assistant Betty as they start their own food truck business! Create ingredients with geometric shapes and prepare orders for hungry customers. You can cut, blend, fry, glaze, sprinkle, and combine ingredients in many other ways to make each dish special.

Osmo: Magical Workshop

Osmo: Magical Workshop

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Learn addition & subtraction through hands-on play on a 1st & 2nd grade math adventure! Real-time targeted teaching tips and nudges let kids learn through experimentation and build confidence in a stress-free environment.

Osmo: Monster

Osmo: Monster

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Blend your real-life doodles with on-screen animations in three amazing activities.

Osmo: Pizza Co.

Osmo: Pizza Co.

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Make pizza, make change, and (hopefully) make profits when you run your very own cartoon pizza shop!

Ozobot

Ozobot

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The Ozobot Experience: control Ozobot with markers; advance with activities; and master with technology.

Ozobot Evo

Ozobot Evo

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The Evo Entry Kit prepares educators and parents to bring coding and creativity to the home and classroom, no coding experience required. Code Ozobot Evo two ways: online with Ozobot Blockly and screen-free with Color Code markers. Ozobot Blockly has five skill levels from beginner to master coding.

Ozobot Evo: Magnets

Ozobot Evo: Magnets

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Ozobot Color Code Magnets offer a fun and interactive way to teaching coding principles to students as young as Pre-K. A mix of Ozobot Color Codes and line-following pieces, the Base Kit enables students to experiment with sequencing, logic, and problem-solving skills. Appropriately sized and easy to use and manipulate, Color Code Magnets are perfect for young learners who are just starting to explore the world of coding.

Physical Science Lab: Magnets

Physical Science Lab: Magnets

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Introduce children to the wonders of magnetism--with fascinating hands-on experiments and ready-to-use tools!

Preschool Math

Preschool Math

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Learn to count to 10 with two different interactive games that will get you familiar with the numbers 1-10, simple addition and subtraction, and matching; all while getting some practice with fine motor skills.

Q-Ba-Maze: Marble Maze

Q-Ba-Maze: Marble Maze

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Q-Ba-Maze is not an ordinary marble run. The unique cube design and sliding side connections allow your marble maze to take on surprising shapes--from fish to flowers...parrots to palm trees. Plus, the precision engineering of the double exit cubes leaves everyone wondering, "Which way will the marbles go."

RC Snap Rover

RC Snap Rover

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Vroom...have FUN building your own RC Snap Rover using colorful Snap Circuits parts! This innovative kit offers a fun, hands-on education in electronics, allowing kids to create rovers and other fun devices by snapping together working circuitry.

Remote-Control Gear-Bot

Remote-Control Gear-Bot

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Roll our the adventures with a real-moving robot you design yourself! Just connect any combination of gears, claws, heads, and more to the motorized base...use the wireless remote control to direct your mighty robot to roll and turn any direction you choose...and set all of its gears in motion--from up to 50 feet away!

Roller Coaster Challenge

Roller Coaster Challenge

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Create a roller coaster track that will carry your car from start to finish.

Science Station: Magnets

Science Station: Magnets

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Students explore the power of magnets through hands-on experiments. Experiments illustrate the concepts such as magnetism and magnetic fields while the activity cards are designed to teach critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to early learners.

Science Station: Motion

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Students explore the science of motion with out STEM science station! Compelling, hands-on experiments illustrate key concepts like force and gravity, and the eight activity cards also feature exploration questions that build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills at a level that's just right for early learners.

Science Station: Sink or Float

Science Station: Sink or Float

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Children explore buoyancy as they complete hands-on experiments and engineering activities. Includes 8 cards that prompt students to perform simple experiment and comes with all the hands-on materials to complete each one. Develops skills in exploring buoyancy using scientific inquiry skills, and suing tools for observation and investigation.

Sensory Math Challenges

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Learn counting, sorting, and patterning while playing. Learn critical thinking and problem solving by following challenge cards to build new shapes.

Shifu Plugo Coding

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A coding kit that syncs with your smartphone of tablet to explore the endless possibilities of code. Play exciting block-based coding games with real tiles. Use direction, number, and action tiles to make the characters move and solve 200+ coding puzzles.

Shifu Plugo STEM Wiz Pack

Shifu Plugo STEM Wiz Pack

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Learn to spell through story-based games. Grow your vocabulary and grammar. Befriend numbers, learn to count, add, subtract, and make all kinds of math magic! Build and balance with magnetic blocks to solve STEM puzzles. Learn and play hands-on, without touching the screen!

Simple Machines

Simple Machines

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Explore all 6 simple machines! Develop critical thinking, cause & effect, and problem solving.

Solar Robot

Solar Robot

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The solar powered robot can be transformed into 14 different robot modes which include a multitude of comical and functional movements. The user can easily change from wagging-tail dog, running beetle, walking crab, surfer, speedster, zombie chaser... The robot kit provides unique accessories (included) and parts that make the robot move on land.

Snap Circuits: Explore Coding

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For nearly 20 years, future engineers all over the world have learned basic electricity with Snap Circuits kits. Now, Snap Circuits is taking the next generation into the world of coding! Download the Snap Circuits App and control Snap Circuits projects using your smartphone or tablet. Expore Coding is a great introduction to coding, using easy graphical coding.

Space Lander

Space Lander

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Targets standards in these areas: understand force and motion; experiment with gravity and air resistance; use the scientific method to make predictions and draw conclusions.

Sphero Indi

Sphero Indi

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The car-shaped indi learning robot is designed to introduce early learners (Pre-K and up) to the fundamentals of computational thinking, STEAM, and computer science principles in a fun and exciting way. Teaching with indi encourages open-ended, imaginative play-based learning with real-life scenarios as learners build custom mazes and solve puzzles. Indi offers an unplugged programming experience with an onboard color sensor and interactive color-coded tiles, or students can kick their skills into high gear with simplified block coding options in the free Sphero Edu Jr. App.

Sphero LittleBits: Starter Kit

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This kit provides an easy-to-follow, flexible, and powerful solution for reinforcing STEAM learning at home. It can empower learners in any environment to create, experiment, and become critical problem solvers through play-based learning and project-based lessons.

Sphero Mini

Sphero Mini

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Get started learning STEAM at home with the Sphero Mini At-Home Learning Starter Kit. No coding experience necessary. This kit includes a Mini, multi-piece construction set, step-by-step, project-based lesson cards, and a parent-friendly guide to help facilitate STEM learning at home. Drive and game with the free Sphero Play App or code and learn to code with the Sphero Edu App. Complete all the challenges and games and then create your own fun -- the possibilities are endless!

Stomp Rocket

Stomp Rocket

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Teachers around the world use the Stomp Rocket to teach scientific concepts such as: trajectory, projection, force and motion!

Subtraction

Subtraction

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With three different games to play, you can learn the basics of subtraction with ease! Check your math skills on the self-checking math machine, match the answer to the correct math equation with dominoes, and brave the tower of math to see who can win the most pieces, or who causes the tower to tumble.

Survive the Quake

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Put your building skills to the ultimate test, the earthquake test! Our earthquake simulator creates quakes in 5 levels of intensity, and comes with 30 plastic building bricks in a variety of shapes and sizes so you can test tons of different structures to see if they topple or stand strong! Kit includes an activity book that gives kids a look into the world of earthquakes and engineering.

Volume Kit

Volume Kit

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Students build 3-D shapes and develop a solid understanding of volume!