STEM Resources

The Mark Twain Life Science book helps students develop communication skills for STEM success.

STEM Labs for Life Science by Mark Twain includes 26 fun, integrated labs that help students understand concepts such as:

• life
• human body systems
• ecosystems

This middle school life science book encourages students to collaborate and communicate to solve real-world problems.

The STEM Labs for Life Science book for sixth–eighth grades features introductory materials to explain STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Correlated to meet current state standards, each lab combines the following essential STEM concepts:

• communication
• creativity
• teamwork
• critical thinking

The Mark Twain Publishing Company provides classroom decorations and supplemental books for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. These products are designed by leading educators and cover science, math, behavior management, history, government, language arts, fine arts, and social studies.

• Contains 196 parts
• Build 120 different projects that all teach STEM
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires 12 "AA" batteries
• Ages 8 and up
• Learn about voltage, current and how circuits with switches, LEDs, motors , speakers, integrated circuits, amplifiers and FM receivers work.
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

Learn to code and get drawing with STEAM-style robotics to create visual masterpieces—if you can code it, Artie 3000 can draw it!

• WiFi-enabled drawing robot
• 4 Modes of play: pre-programmed shapes, games, art for coloring, and freeform coding
• QuickStart guide & FAQs instruction cards
• 3 Project cards
• Drag and drop visual programming interface
• 4 Swappable, washable colored markers
• Requires 4AA batteries (not included)

How to Use:

1. Download the app to any tablet.
2. Use the software to easily drag and drop blocks of code into the command area, telling Artie 3000 to turn right or left, move forward or backward, and pick up or put down a pen.
3. Test your code in the online simulator before setting Artie 3000 on a sheet of paper to draw the shape you've coded.
4. Watch how-to videos and learn about everything Artie 3000 can do

Brackitz is the only construction toy that lets you design any driving machine you can imagine. Anything.

The Brackitz Driver Set includes 43 pieces and directions for ten driving machines - from a spinning gyro-copter to a space rover to a wind-up blaster. With wheels, axles, hubs and rubber-band drivetrains, engineers of all ages can design and build machines that spin, explore space, fly through the air, or drive crazy fast. No driver's license required!

• The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.
• Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
• No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

• Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
• Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
• Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
• A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
• Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
• A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.

• Erosion Barrier (Earth Science concept: Erosion and Weathering)
• Shin Guards (Life Science Concept: Human Bones and Energy Absorption)
• Zip Line (Physical Science Concept: Force, Gravity, and Friction)

Unleash Your Creative Power!

The Brackitz Pulley Set includes 77 pieces and directions for 8 contraptions - from a moving draw bridge to a 4-foot flying zip line to a bucket escalator. With pulleys, axles, hubs, hook, crank and string, engineers of all ages will have fun building and cranking contraptions that haul, lift, slide and move up/down. No hard hat required

This STEM bulletin board set is a must-have for all 21st century classrooms. It is designed to help the STEM teacher give students the tools to develop creativity, problem-solving skills, collaboration skills, and leadership abilities. The high-tech yet whimsical art makes it an appealing set for all ages. It emphasizes the 4 C's of STEM and the Engineering Design Process, teaching students about the real world and how it works.

Carson-Dellosa curriculum bulletin boards are designed to support any classroom with hardworking curriculum-based displays.

Features:

• Resource Guide

This set provides four Story Blox - The Island kits, all packed into a sturdy storage case for sharing in the classroom.

• Contains 432 parts (96 unique patented parts including twelve 2-way LEDs you won't find in any other toy brick set)
• Build 8 different characters or objects that all light up in this leading edge STREAM product
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires four 9V battery
• Ages 8 and up
• Learn about series and parallel circuits, robotics, canine/feline breeds, marine biology, laser technology, architecture, mechanics and more!
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

Kit Includes:

• 1 40mL Glitter glue
• 1 50 mL Borax solution
• 1 40g Powered Borax
• 2 Keepsake containers
• 2 Observation bags
• 2 10mL Bottles food coloring
• 4 Popsicle sticks
• 6 Pipe cleaners
• 1 30cm Cotton string
• 1 science + art activity booklet

Activities Included:

• Make your own slime
• Make your own bouncy ball
• Make your own crystals
• Make your own window clings
• Make your own putty
• Make your own floam
• Make your own sun catcher

Science Lessons:

• Study of polymers
• Chemical reactions
• States of matter