Library of Things

Recommended Grades: 1-3
This comprehensive activity tub enables students to investigate the amazing world of animals through exciting experiments and high-interest projects. Featuring 40 standards-based activity cards that cover 5 curriculum areas: math, language, science, social studies, and arts & crafts. Includes a guide with differentiated instruction strategies to support various learning levels.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
  This open-ended building center teaches children to identify structural elements in real bridges and incorporate them into their own engineering designs. The center encourages critical thinking and problem-solving as children explore concepts like stability, support, and span through hands-on construction activities.

Recommended Grades: 4-6
This comprehensive science kit provides students with a firsthand look at cells and organisms through hands-on experiments. Students can create cell models, view cell division, observe osmosis in action, and more. All activities are based on national science standards. Includes a guide with reproducibles and extension ideas to support deeper learning.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on mathematics kit helps children develop counting skills and visualize quantities through an engaging elephant-themed activity. Children count out and attach the corresponding number of colorful links to each numbered elephant, providing concrete reinforcement of number concepts from 1-20.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This playful educational manipulative helps children master number recognition and counting skills through an engaging ice cream cone activity. Children match quantities to numerals by stacking the correct number of ice cream scoops onto cones labeled 1-10, building number sense and fine motor skills simultaneously.

Recommended Grades: 4-6
This hands-on science kit allows students to explore electricity through engaging experiments like building circuits, sending Morse code messages, and creating burglar alarms. All activities are based on national science standards. Includes a comprehensive guide with reproducibles and extension ideas to support deeper learning about electrical concepts.

Recommended Grades: 1-3
This comprehensive activity tub enables students to investigate force and motion through exciting experiments and high-interest projects. Featuring 40 standards-based activity cards that cover 5 curriculum areas: math, language, science, social studies, and arts & crafts. Includes a guide with differentiated instruction strategies to support various learning levels.

Recommended Grades: 4-6
This hands-on science kit allows students to explore force and motion through exciting experiments like racing cars down ramps, building roller coasters, and launching balloon rockets. All activities are based on national science standards. Includes a comprehensive guide with reproducibles and extension ideas to support deeper learning about physical science concepts.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This innovative STEM kit helps children engineer a solution to a classic fairy tale problem by building a chair strong enough to support Goldilocks without breaking. Students explore engineering concepts, problem-solving strategies, and creative thinking as they work to design a sturdy chair structure using the provided materials.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This open-ended building center teaches children to identify architectural elements in real buildings and incorporate them into their own structural designs. The center encourages engineering thinking and spatial awareness as children explore shapes, stability, and design principles through hands-on construction activities.

Recommended Grades: 4-6
This hands-on science kit allows students to explore human body systems through engaging experiments like creating model lungs, measuring heart rates, and testing reflexes. All activities are based on national science standards. Includes a comprehensive guide with reproducibles and extension ideas to support deeper learning about human anatomy and physiology.

Recommended Grades: 1-3
This comprehensive activity tub enables students to investigate the amazing world of insects through exciting experiments and high-interest projects. Featuring 40 standards-based activity cards that cover 5 curriculum areas: math, language, science, social studies, and arts & crafts. Includes a guide with differentiated instruction strategies to support various learning levels.

Recommended Grades: 1-3
This comprehensive activity tub enables students to investigate the different states of matter through exciting experiments and high-interest projects. Featuring 40 standards-based activity cards that cover 5 curriculum areas: math, language, science, social studies, and arts & crafts. Includes a guide with differentiated instruction strategies to support various learning levels.

Recommended Grades: 4-6
This hands-on science kit allows students to explore the properties of matter through engaging experiments like building molecule models and investigating chemical changes. All activities are based on national science standards. Includes a comprehensive guide with reproducibles and extension ideas to support deeper learning about states of matter and physical/chemical properties.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on manipulative kit helps children build early counting skills and number recognition through engaging fine motor activities. Children match numerals to quantities by selecting bolts labeled 1-10 and attaching the corresponding number of nuts. The self-correcting design ensures successful counting practice as each bolt holds only the exact quantity of nuts.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on manipulative kit helps children build early patterning skills and color recognition through engaging fine motor activities. Children create patterns by selecting bolts and attaching brightly colored nuts in sequences, developing both mathematical thinking and fine motor coordination simultaneously.

Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on manipulative kit helps children build early sorting and color recognition skills through engaging fine motor activities. Children match colors by selecting brightly colored bolts and attaching the corresponding colored nuts, developing visual discrimination and fine motor coordination simultaneously.

Recommended Grades: 1-3
This comprehensive activity tub enables students to investigate plants in depth through exciting experiments and high-interest projects. Featuring 40 standards-based activity cards that cover 5 curriculum areas: math, language, science, social studies, and arts & crafts. Includes a guide with differentiated instruction strategies to support various learning levels.