Activity Kits
RAFT's pre-assembled Activity Kits contain the materials needed to implement specific Idea Sheets.
Each Activity Kit also has a detailed Idea Sheet that explains the activity in steps, the things needed to do the activity, assembly instructions for the materials and the benefits of doing the activity.
Like the Idea Sheets they are based on, Activity Kits support curriculum standards and complement textbook lesson plans. Check out what Activity Kits are currently in stock.
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Abacus Variations
This easily created version of an abacus can teach place value and show how different cultures calculate. Abaci can even be based on math systems other than base 10!
Grade Range: 1 - 8
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 43Above & Below Zero Game!
Add positive and negative numbers on a vertical number line.
Grade Range: 4 - 8
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Quantity Available: 10Absolutely Valuable Game!
In this fast-paced game of addition, students discover that the "absolute value" of a number is simply its distance from zero on a number line.
Grade Range: 5 - 9
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Quantity Available: 4Add It Up
This simple hands-on activity helps students master important addition facts and become strategic problem-solvers!
Grade Range: K - 4
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Quantity Available: 11Advanced Mathematical Dream Catchers
Native American Indian culture and mathematical concepts combine to make dream catchers. This activity leads to higher mathematical investigations, including properties of circles and modular star polygons.
Grade Range: 6 - 9
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Quantity Available: 28Advanced Mathematical Dream Catchers
Native American Indian culture and mathematical concepts combine to make dream catchers. This activity leads to higher mathematical investigations, including properties of circles and modular star polygons.
Grade Range: 6 - 9
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Quantity Available: 156Ample Samples
Get a statistical snapshot of a population using simplified versions of the random, systematic, and stratified sampling techniques commonly used by researchers around the world!
Grade Range: 6 - 12
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Quantity Available: 20Anamorphic Art
In this unique interdisciplinary activity, students use science, math, and art skills to create a drawing on a curved grid. The coordinates used for the drawing on the curved grid are the same as they would be for a square grid. This anamorphic drawing appears distorted from the original and can be difficult to recognize... until it is viewed with a cylindrical mirror! A recognizable image "magically" appears when science, math, and art are mixed together.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 45Anamorphic Art
In this unique interdisciplinary activity, students use science, math, and art skills to create a drawing on a curved grid. The coordinates used for the drawing on the curved grid are the same as they would be for a square grid. This anamorphic drawing appears distorted from the original and can be difficult to recognize... until it is viewed with a cylindrical mirror! A recognizable image "magically" appears when science, math, and art are mixed together.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 44Area Antics
This popular activity plays like the card game "War", but with a new twist. Players estimate, and then measure, the area of shapes by covering them with centimeter blocks. With practice, they internalize the concept of area and learn to estimate it. This activity can also be used to learn about perimeter. Adding more layers of blocks introduces the concept of volume.
Grade Range: 3 - 7
Students Served: 3-4 Players
Quantity Available: 40Back in the Groove
This is a great activity for investigating sound. It might just be a history lesson about records for your students; and you can tell them, "No, this will not work with CDs."
Grade Range: 2 - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 47Binary Birthday Bracelets
Learning about binary numbers (Base 2) incorporates number sense, exponents, and the conversion of numbers between different bases. Binary numbers are essential to the functioning of common digital electronic devices but are usually well hidden!
Grade Range: 4 - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 63Binary Birthday Bracelets - Kit
Learning about binary numbers (Base 2) builds an understanding of number sense, exponents, and different base number systems. In making a Binary Bracelet students will encode their birthday into a wearable bracelet. Binary numbers, being a novel subject to most students, can lead to uniquely interesting lessons. Binary numbers are found all around us but are usually well hidden!
Grade Range: 4 - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 63Binary Dots
Counting in binary is quite straightforward and makes for an interesting and compelling activity for any student who can do simple addition. This uncomplicated game creates an opportunity to practice counting in binary. It reinforces understanding of place value and can be extended into a discussion of other bases and number systems.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 58Black and White Makes Color
Spin a CD with a Benham's Disk pattern on top and observe an interesting optical effect. The black and white pattern on the disk creates a mysterious illusion of color! This illusion provides valuable insights into how our eyes and brain perceive color.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 116Black and White Makes Color
Spin a CD with a Benham's Disk pattern on top and observe an interesting optical effect. The black and white pattern on the disk creates a mysterious illusion of color! This illusion provides valuable insights into how our eyes and brain perceive color.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 102Breadboard Circuits
Provide students with opportunities to create a basic circuit, build a portable version, and explore parallel and series circuits!
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 48Breadboard Circuits
Provide students with opportunities to create a basic circuit, build a portable version, and explore parallel and series circuits!
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 43Buzz Off
Give this little noisemaker a whirl to learn about the effects of air passing over a taut rubber band. As it vibrates, the rubber band can generate a surprising range of deep rumbling tones. How can the pitch be changed? Experiment to find the answer!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 26Buzz Off
Give this little noisemaker a whirl to learn about the effects of air passing over a taut rubber band. As it vibrates, the rubber band can generate a surprising range of deep rumbling tones. How can the pitch be changed? Experiment to find the answer!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 104Cap Maracas
Explore rhythms using these simple maracas in an activity that appeals to both auditory and kinesthetic learners.
Grade Range: PK - 3
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 5Car on a Roll
Model cars teach students about motion along inclined planes, friction, gravity, momentum, and potential vs. kinetic energy. The models do not need to be complex in design. These model cars consist of a simple chassis and a straw-based axle system (simple machine) that produces minimal friction and allows the cars to roll with little energy input, making them ideal learning tools for students of all ages.
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 5Car on a Roll
Model cars teach students about motion along inclined planes, friction, gravity, momentum, and potential vs. kinetic energy. The models do not need to be complex in design. These model cars consist of a simple chassis and a straw-based axle system (simple machine) that produces minimal friction and allows the cars to roll with little energy input, making them ideal learning tools for students of all ages.
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 78Catch a Falling Ring
Strengthen observational skills, build persistence, and provide the joy of discovery as students work to find a way to cause a falling ring to end up tied to a loop of chain.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 208Centimeter Sam
This game gives students practice measuring in centimeters. This game can also be used for estimating length.
Grade Range: K - 6
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 38Centimeter Sam
This game gives students practice measuring in centimeters. This game can also be used for estimating length.
Grade Range: K - 6
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Quantity Available: 166Circle Game
A board game that can teach whatever you choose!
Grade Range: K - 8
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 21Circle Game
A board game that can teach whatever you choose!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 1587Colors of Light
White light is actually a combination of different colors. This easy-to-build spectroscope creates a rainbow pattern (spectrum) by separating incoming light into its component colors. The interesting patterns it displays can be used to identify different sources of light. Experiment with a variety of colored filters and see how the images change!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 69Colors of Light
White light is actually a combination of different colors. This easy-to-build spectroscope creates a rainbow pattern (spectrum) by separating incoming light into its component colors. The interesting patterns it displays can be used to identify different sources of light. Experiment with a variety of colored filters and see how the images change!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 142Critter Capsule
Build student curiosity about motion, center of mass, and inertia with this fun activity! Use this activity as a tool to discuss the characteristics of living organisms. The reason for the capsule's tumbling motion is concealed by the foil which adds to its "mysterious" nature and provides an opportunity to practice observation and science process skills.
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 62Dive into Square Pools
"Build" increasingly larger square pools with a single tile border to look for patterns in the number of tiles needed. Develop a general tile formula for any size square pool.
Grade Range: 6 - 12
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Quantity Available: 2Dizzy Decimals and More!
This exciting game reinforces addition and multiplication of decimal numbers! It can be customized to include subtraction, division, conversion of decimals to fractions, and rounding answers to a fixed number of decimal places!
Grade Range: 4 - 8
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 20Egg Drop
Students build a "vehicle" designed to prevent a dropped egg from breaking. In the process, they discover that combining simple materials with a little creative thinking and teamwork will reveal many ways to solve this intriguing challenge!
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 34Energy Game
As they play the Energy Game, young students will start to think about their own energy choices. Older players will discover that the game is intriguing and involves quite a bit of strategy.
Grade Range: 4 - 8
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Quantity Available: 104Envelope Book
These fun, creative, and easy-to-make books will hold students' writings & treasures.
Grade Range: 1 - 10
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 2Envelope Gift Bag
Students will have a great time decorating scrap envelopes to create these wonderful gift bags. Use them for Valentine's Day, birthdays, or any other holidays you choose.
Grade Range: 2 - 6
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 131Evolution by Natural Selection
Simulate evolution with some colorful "critters" and carnivorous "beaky birds". Simulations are helpful to demonstrate processes like evolution that take place over many years. Observe how adaptations such as camouflage help organisms survive and pass on traits to offspring. Recognize evolution happening simultaneously in both the predator and prey (bird and critter) populations.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 58Faux Stained Glass
Student artists of all ability levels can use this flexible technique to create dramatic effects. Their creations will "shine from within", adding a unique dimension to cards, bookmarks and other decorative objects.
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 89Fizzy Rockets
These rockets enable students to use design thinking and are effective demonstrations of Newton's laws of motion. The liftoff power of the rocket is produced by a common acid/base chemical reaction that creates carbon dioxide gas; making this activity an ideal tool for teaching students about chemical reactions and how pressure can do work on objects.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 100Flip Over Fractions!
In this colorful activity, players use "bricks" to build "fraction walls". In the process, they master equivalent fractions and gain problem-solving and creative thinking skills. This activity can be used by individual students, or turned into exciting opportunities for teamwork and competition!
Grade Range: 2 - 8
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Quantity Available: 25Floating Compass
The floating compass is a useful tool for detecting the magnetic fields of magnets and of the Earth. Make a simple compass with a magnetized needle demonstrates the properties of magnetic materials and shows that magnets have north and south poles. Using the floating compass provides a visual example of how like poles repel each other.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 42Floating Garden of Magnets
Magnets floating in water move easily and adjust their position based on changes in the number and location of other magnets around them. Beautiful designs emerge as magnets float to find their positions in the pattern. This activity demonstrates the effects of magnetic fields and also illustrates how crystal molecules form.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 49Foil Art
Explore an art technique where everyone - both children and adults - can be successful. The color pulled from new or used printing foils can create striking patterns for making cards, bookmarks, and other art projects.
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 121Frack Jack
Games are wonderful tools for teaching and motivating students! Frack Jack helps students of all ages master equivalent fractions and become skilled at estimating what portion of a circle is filled by any collection of fractional wedges.
Grade Range: 2 - 8
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Quantity Available: 41Fraction Action Game!
Explore rational numbers by making fractions from positive and negative integers!
Grade Range: 3 - 8
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Quantity Available: 9Fraction Action Plus
Find a pair of fractions that will add up to the target number!
Grade Range: 4 - 8
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Quantity Available: 9Fraction Race!
Roll dice, match equivalent fractions, and race bead "cars" across chenille stem "roads"! The first to race all cars to the finish line is the winner!
Grade Range: 2 - 6
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 42Freaky Fractals
A fractal is an amazing geometric pattern which, when viewed closely, shows itself to be constructed of ever-smaller parts similar to the original. Fractal patterns are everywhere: trees, shells, leaves, ferns, flowers, vegetables, rivers, coastlines, mountains, geologic faults, planetary orbits, circulatory systems, music, clouds, weather, and even lightning bolts!
Grade Range: K - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 8Freaky Fractals
A fractal is an amazing geometric pattern which, when viewed closely, shows itself to be constructed of ever-smaller parts similar to the original. Fractal patterns are everywhere: trees, shells, leaves, ferns, flowers, vegetables, rivers, coastlines, mountains, geologic faults, planetary orbits, circulatory systems, music, clouds, weather, and even lightning bolts!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 15Give and Take
Practice regrouping/ trading "tens" and "ones" while playing this game.
Grade Range: K - 3
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 849Glove-a-Phone
How can a plastic glove, a straw, and a tube be combined to make a "musical" instrument? Build a Glove-a-Phone to discover one way to accomplish this feat. Once you learn the proper technique, your Glove-a-Phone can be heard a surprisingly long way off! How is the sound produced? Careful observation is needed to answer that question.
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 45Grapes of Math!
Locate the most values satisfying two mathematical conditions in a Venn Diagram scenario to gain a reward "grape". The player with the most grapes wins!
Grade Range: 3 - 9
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Quantity Available: 1Gravity Defying Frog
Move the center of gravity of a paper frog to create a gravity defying illusion! How can the frog spin around with most of its body suspended in mid-air? Use moveable weights to discover what forces are needed to keep the frog balanced on its head. Conceal the weights to heighten the mystery!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 82Hole in One Demo
Investigate the effects of inertia and friction on the path of a falling object.
Grade Range: 7 - 12
Students Served: 1 Student
Quantity Available: 109Hot Wire Through Styrofoam Demo
This nifty gadget is a useful tool to cut Styrofoam (TM) and an example of a circuit.
Grade Range: 3 - 8
Students Served: 1 Student
Quantity Available: 298Hovercraft
Explore how a hovercraft can glide smoothly along by constructing this quick-to-assemble four-piece model. Once the hovercraft is built, test it on any smooth, flat surface.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 4Hovercraft
Explore how a hovercraft can glide smoothly along by constructing this quick-to-assemble four-piece model. Once the hovercraft is built, test it on any smooth, flat surface.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 70Kumihimo
This simplified version of an ancient braiding technique ties together art, history, and mathematical patterns in a fun activity suitable for all ages.
Grade Range: K - 7
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Quantity Available: 47Kumihimo
This simplified version of an ancient braiding technique ties together art, history, and mathematical patterns in a fun activity suitable for all ages.
Grade Range: K - 7
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Quantity Available: 88Lace it Up
Young learners will enjoy practicing different patterns with sewing cards and cord.
Grade Range: PK - 2
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 42Leaf Mixture Chromatography
Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants combine carbon dioxide, water, and solar energy to create sugars for support and for food, releasing oxygen as a by-product. This activity reveals the pigments in leaves that enable plants to harness the Sun's energy, and gives students valuable hands-on experience using a common laboratory technique.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 55Leftover Quilt Patches
Fill quilts with an equal number of colorful square patches. Any leftover patches are kept, and the winner is the player having the most leftovers!
Grade Range: 2 - 6
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Quantity Available: 56Leonardo's Arched Bridge
Make a self-supporting bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Be amazed by the ingenious simplicity of his creation! Use Leonardo's idea to inspire a student design challenge.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 36Magnetic Field Line Viewer
This easily-made device allows a magnet's unseen magnetic field to become "visible" in 3 dimensions. Iron filings are contained between a pair of clear lids joined at the rims and held apart by a trapped bubble of air. This simple tool can reveal the patterns due to invisible forces created by magnets.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 16Mathematical Dream Catchers
Combine traditional Native American culture and modern mathematical concepts to explore geometric shapes and patterns!
Grade Range: 1 - 5
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Quantity Available: 64Mathematical Dream Catchers
Combine traditional Native American culture and modern mathematical concepts to explore geometric shapes and patterns!
Grade Range: 1 - 5
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Quantity Available: 67Meet My Function Machine!
Create a function machine that transforms an input number into a unique output number. Exchange function machines and discover the rule behind the function!
Grade Range: 3 - 8
Students Served: Serves 20
Quantity Available: 26Mind Mixer
Students strengthen observation and classification skills as they sort cats and mice.
Grade Range: K - 3
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 179Mini Ice Mountains
Use "mini mountains" of ice to observe how lakes, rivers, streams, and ice caves are formed. Make observations on erosion and on the patterns created by flowing water.
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 8Mini Magnet Wands
Magnetism is a fascinating phenomenon for students. This simple yet effective activity provides a practical method for teaching students how to find and label the magnetic poles on a magnet, identify magnetic materials, understand the difference between geographic and magnetic poles. Mini Magnet Wands can also be used to understand compasses.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 26Mixing it Up
A simple game to improve observation and memory skills.
Grade Range: K - 6
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 62Modeling DNA
This simplified DNA model uses beads and chenille stems (pipe cleaners) to represent nucleotide components. DNA is the fundamental hereditary material for all living organisms. The structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was understood only after years of scientific research. Although simple in structure, DNA carries the code for all the complexities of life.
Grade Range: 7 - 12
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Quantity Available: 32Modeling DNA
This simplified DNA model uses beads and chenille stems (pipe cleaners) to represent nucleotide components. DNA is the fundamental hereditary material for all living organisms. The structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was understood only after years of scientific research. Although simple in structure, DNA carries the code for all the complexities of life.
Grade Range: 7 - 12
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Quantity Available: 50Nine Men's Morris
If this historic "three-in-a-row" strategy game seems familiar, it's because Nine Men's Morris is Tic-tac-toe taken to the next level! Use it to teach logic and problem-solving.
Grade Range: 3 - 8
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Quantity Available: 70Pi Day Pin Demo
This fun math project encodes the first digits of Pi into a pin that reinforces the famous ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter!
Grade Range: 4 - 12
Students Served: 1 Student
Quantity Available: 19Price a Piece of Pizza!
Once the price of a whole pizza is known, find the price of a fractional slice of the same pizza. Add extra toppings for an additional fee!
Grade Range: 2 - 8
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Quantity Available: 35Puff Rocket
Hypothesize, experiment, collect data and analyze forces and motion with a straw "rocket" and an easily made launcher. The stronger the force, the farther and higher the rocket flies!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 75Puff Rocket
Hypothesize, experiment, collect data and analyze forces and motion with a straw "rocket" and an easily made launcher. The stronger the force, the farther and higher the rocket flies!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 146Retractor Car
With a little creativity, the potential energy stored in a common badge retractor can run a fun little vehicle. Take this idea and run with it!
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 30Retractor Car
With a little creativity, the potential energy stored in a common badge retractor can run a fun little vehicle. Take this idea and run with it!
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 5Rollback Can
A rolling can returns to its starting point on its own!? The Rollback Can provides an interesting example of energy transfer and storage.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 64Rollback Can
A rolling can returns to its starting point on its own!? The Rollback Can provides an interesting example of energy transfer and storage.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 22Roller Coaster Math!
What does math have to do with thrilling roller coaster rides? How high does a coaster need to be to successfully navigate through a loop and on to the end of the track? How is the speed of the coaster related to the height of the coaster's starting position?
Grade Range: 6 - 12
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Quantity Available: 46Roller Racer
Enjoy the hands-on experience of building and using the Roller Racer, a modern variation of an old favorite. Explore the application of simple machines and energy conversion and investigate how changes in stored energy can affect performance.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 64Roller Racer
Enjoy the hands-on experience of building and using the Roller Racer, a modern variation of an old favorite. Explore the application of simple machines and energy conversion and investigate how changes in stored energy can affect performance.
Grade Range: 2 - 12
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Quantity Available: 25Salmon You Can Count On
Estimating the size of a population of animals, like salmon, is very challenging. The "tag and recapture" technique provides surprisingly accurate results. Simulate this sampling process using colored disks to represent salmon. Use proportions to predict the total population from the distribution of tagged fish found in "captured" samples.
Grade Range: 6 - 12
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Quantity Available: 19Scalloped Circle String Art
Use colored string and simple cardboard shapes to create artistic designs based on intriguing mathematical patterns. Every pattern has infinite possibilities! String art is fun for all ages - to fix a mistake or try a new approach, just unwind the string!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 88Scalloped Circle String Art
Use colored string and simple cardboard shapes to create artistic designs based on intriguing mathematical patterns. Every pattern has infinite possibilities! String art is fun for all ages - to fix a mistake or try a new approach, just unwind the string!
Grade Range: K - 12
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Quantity Available: 42Shape Up with Algebra
Using centimeter cubes, build successive shapes based on a geometric pattern. Compare the shapes at successive stages to find an algebraic functional relationship.
Grade Range: 6 - 8
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Quantity Available: 2Simple Stethoscope
Listening to the heart is a practical way to teach students about how the heart pumps blood through the circulatory system. The sounds of the beats provide information on heart valves, heart rate, and they reveal the relationship between circulation and respiration. This simple device allows students to appreciate the importance of the stethoscope in medicine and the study of human biology.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 41Simple Stethoscope
Listening to the heart is a practical way to teach students about how the heart pumps blood through the circulatory system. The sounds of the beats provide information on heart valves, heart rate, and they reveal the relationship between circulation and respiration. This simple device allows students to appreciate the importance of the stethoscope in medicine and the study of human biology.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 62Simple Telescope
See how convex and concave lenses can be combined to magnify far-away objects.
Grade Range: 7 - 12
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Quantity Available: 23Solar Collector
The Sun provides a daily source of free and non-polluting energy that can be collected and converted. Concentrate sunlight using a reflective collector and explore heating and "cooking" foods and other materials.
Grade Range: 3 - 12
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Quantity Available: 51Solar Jitterbug
Create and decorate a "critter" whose moves are powered by sunlight. To vary the critter's movements explore making changes to the swinging "proboscis".
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 56Spectrum Bracelet
Students can quickly and easily construct this bracelet to help them remember both the visible and invisible components of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 173Staple Remover Catapult Demo
Students can build and manipulate these scale model catapults to learn about motion, the history of science and technology, and the scientific method.
Grade Range: 2 - 8
Students Served: 1 Student
Quantity Available: 44Static Merry-go-round
This unique adaptation of the world's first electric motor lets students create spinning motion using only hand-generated static electric charges.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 45Static Merry-go-round
This unique adaptation of the world's first electric motor lets students create spinning motion using only hand-generated static electric charges.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 3Strawberry DNA Illustrated
Use ordinary dish soap, salt, and isopropyl alcohol to extract DNA from strawberries. Just follow the illustrated guide. No special skills or equipment required.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 26Strawberry DNA Illustrated
Use ordinary dish soap, salt, and isopropyl alcohol to extract DNA from strawberries. Just follow the illustrated guide. No special skills or equipment required.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
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Quantity Available: 76Super Slurper
In the polymer Olympics, this substance would win a gold medal! It can soak up and hold up to 3000 times its weight in water! In this activity, students test the polymer to see if salt interferes with the polymer's efficiency.
Grade Range: 4 - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 4Taxi
Move 42 spaces in 1 turn?! No problem for a fast-moving Taxi. Zoom around the game board over and over to collect TAXI FARE cards and win the game!
Grade Range: 2 - 8
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 730The Germinator
Create a reusable germinator that gives students an unobstructed view of sprouting seeds. Graph data, test environmental variables, or simply "enjoy the magic" as the seeds transform into growing plants!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 49The Germinator
Create a reusable germinator that gives students an unobstructed view of sprouting seeds. Graph data, test environmental variables, or simply "enjoy the magic" as the seeds transform into growing plants!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 24Tic Tac Trouble
This board game gives students practice in solving word problems using mental addition and subtraction.
Grade Range: 1 - 3
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Quantity Available: 55Tongue Depressor Harmonica
People of all ages love the Kazoo-like sounds that come from this fun-to-make and easy-to-play instrument. The RAFT harmonica uses a rubber band vibrating between tongue depressors to make sound. Changing the length of the rubber band changes the sound. Start your own harmonica band today!
Grade Range: K - 8
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Quantity Available: 69Turtle Time
Use this game to help younger students (5-8 years) practice letter sounds, sight words, rhyming words, spelling, ESL... anything! With the right pieces, early education students will enjoy it, too!
Grade Range: PK - 3
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 298Who's the Daddy?
DNA fingerprinting is often seen in today's media. This simplified model helps students visualize the analysis process, understand the underlying concepts and applications of DNA fingerprinting, and develop collaboration skills as young scientists.
Grade Range: 7 - 12
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Quantity Available: 93Word Wise
For this word game, students first make the game cubes from a 2-D template. After the cubes are made, players get practice finding small words, increasing their reading and vocabulary skills.
Grade Range: 1 - 12
Students Served: Kit for 20
Quantity Available: 25Zero Wins
Students can practice various math operations by selecting numbers and operators written on bottle caps and arranging them to make number sentences.
Grade Range: 1 - 3
Students Served: 6 Players
Quantity Available: 37