STEM Resources

Have you ever wanted to jump inside your favorite book or travel back in time? Augmented reality is making it possible to bring stories and history to life! This technology uses cameras and computer programs to add pictures and sound to the reality we see around us. People can use augmented reality in museums, hospitals, and factories. Learn all about this incredible technology!

As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores the latest and greatest in the world of technology. Fascinating text, vivid photos, and real-world examples bring these amazing breakthroughs to life!

A Helpful Musical Resource to Support STEAM Lessons!

STEAM is an interdisciplinary approach to learning. The goal is to thematically connect science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills with instructional content. This approach encourages intentional curriculum planning and implementation. The STEAM Themes CD adds music to the mix, offering songs organized by popular STEAM themes, and can be a helpful resource to enrich STEAM lessons for PreK and Kindergarten children.

Booklet activities created by Dr. Pam Schiller

Do you know what is challenging about buying the right building kit for your young engineer? You have to buy more than one educational toy to get all the benefits of STEM learning and none of them work with each other. We realized this and are delighted to announce the Mini STEAM Center! This wonderfully designed toy has 204 pieces, a reusable plastic container and comes with all of our most popular series: Inventor, Pulleys & Cranks, Wheels & Axles, and Gears, Sprockets, & Chains all in one. All Brackitz pieces work together so your young builder to create a multitude of different projects.It is ideal for any parent wanting to be a creative hero!

Mini STEAM Center has large planks, connectors, and parts for driving, pulleys, and gears. Brackitz' connect-anywhere design is great for improving fine motor skills as well as gross motor skills. Keep your kids happy for hours while learning and playing.

Mini STEAM Center offers hours of STEM learning while playing, designed to promote problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Brackitz is designed with open-ended play in mind - you are not limited to just certain builds that are in the instructions. We have been inspiring artists, makers, scientists, designers, innovators in the home and classroom....a trusted choice by parents and educators alike.

Full STEAM ahead! (pun intended!)

• Design and build a roller coaster
• Create your own Rube-Goldberg Machine
• Build eye-hand coordination and create a fort!
• Make a snack pulley
• Build a toy car
• Create mazes
• Learn the alphabet by BUILDING LETTERS!

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!

• Contains 45 unique, patented parts including 10 LEDs you won't find in any other toy brick set
• Patented technology enables you to build 3D circuits into your structure with no wires!
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires one 9V battery
• Ages 8 and up
• STEAM product that teaches how to build 3D series and parallel circuits to light your imaginative creations

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.

Mechanics gravity magnetic race track harnesses the invisible forces of magnetism and gravity through original and surprising means. The spheres inside the circuit are set in motion by an innovative magnetic cannon that uses the force of attraction of the accelerating magnet. This set contains 2 magnetic rods, 9 spheres and 104 plastic elements - all the essentials needed to build freely and create chain reactions. Gravity is the innovative evolution of the Geomag mechanics line. Developed with expert players in mind, the new construction system is based on an innovative "gravity motor": This uses the weight of the Geomag spheres to kickstart the mechanisms and movements of the Geomag mechanics structures. The motion is provided by the invisible forces of gravity and magnetism, without using electricity or batteries. The play experience is based on these fundamental principles of physics. Mechanics gravity is a stem Product that can truly stimulate curiosity and inspire to learn more about science.