STEM Kits (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) are available for one-week checkouts. Pick up and return your kit at the Children's Desk, limit one kit per card. Place a hold in the catalog.
Explore bugs up close without fear of bites or stings! Preserved specimens let kids discover parts of bugs, count their legs, and more. This kit develops curiosity and natural science skills.
Learn pet care, early math, and coding skills screen-free with these puppy robots. Kids can code along with a storybook adventure or make Ranger dance and sing!
Code the Cubetto to navigate through mazes while reading a story. This kit develops motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. No screen required to operate.
Create amazing models using the flexible straws, connectors, and clips. This kit develops motor and problem-solving skills while promoting design thinking.
Engineer original vehicles or recreate elements from the vehicle photo cards. This kit develops fine-motor and problem-solving skills while promoting design thinking.
Blue-Bot is a programmable floor robot that can remember up to 40 steps. This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. No screen required to operate.
Botley is a programmable floor robot that can remember up to 150 steps. This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. No screen required to operate.
Explore robotics and coding with these modular, interlocking blocks. This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. A phone or tablet is optional to operate this set.
This microscope makes it easy for kids to explore the microscopic world, with a specially designed microscope and lab kit. Explore the prepared plant slide, which include onion epidermis, holly leaf, celery leaf, sunflower root, pine pollen, and dandelion seed. Investigate the textures of a geode, pyrite, green fluorite, blue calcite, rose quartz, and chevron amethyst.
Learn math and money management with a cash register and activity cards. This kit develops fine-motor and math skills while introducing financial terms and concepts.
Attach your phone or tablet to this keyboard to learn the basics of playing piano. This kit develops fine-motor, matching, and musical skills. A phone or tablet is required to operate.
Learn about telling time with fun activities and clocks. This kit develops fine-motor and math skills while introducing time-related terms and concepts.
Use plastic rods and connectors to build just about anything you can imagine. This kit develops fine-motor and problem-solving skills while promoting design thinking.
Snap together bits to learn about circuits and engineering. This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. No tablet required to operate.
This invention kit tricks your computer into thinking that almost anything is a keyboard. This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills.
Ozobot uses sensors to follow lines and read Color Codes you make with markers. Choose from Speed, Direction, Cool Moves codes and more. For more advanced coding, code on the Ozoblockly app.
Learn about circuits and electricity with easy, snap-in-place, modular parts. This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. No tablet required to operate.
Build mazes, obstacles, and towers then code Sphero to navigate through them all! This kit develops fine-motor, sequencing, and problem-solving skills. A phone or tablet is required to operate.
Code Cue to sing, dance, move and launch foam darts. Explore multiple programming languages, such as block-based coding and JavaScript. A phone or tablet is required to operate.
Named as best Virtual Reality headset for kids and tweens and winner of the Academic's Choice Award. The Merge Cube is the only product that lets you hold digital 3D objects (holograms), enabling an entirely new and powerful way to learn Science and STEM.
Learn about the history of microscopes, proper slide preparation, biology and more. This microscope features high-quality optics and powerful LED lights that illuminate slides from below and 3D objects from above. Examine 35 professionally prepared slides that include specimens of earthworms, muscles and nerves, skin and tissue, plant parts, mold and algae, nutrient processing systems, fungi and lichen.
Designed for first-time telescope users to explore amateur astronomy. Observe the moon, planets, stars, or terrestrial objects while learning about science.