Price: $9.70

A fascinating science lesson! Students assemble a Benham’s disc to explore the illusion of seeing color in a rotating black and white pattern -- a curious aspect of how our eyes and brain perceive color.

Price: $8.80

How will an earthquake, simulated by shaking, affect a "building" made of linked squares? How can the square "stories" be cross-braced to prevent the "walls" from collapsing? What dangers are there in building above a garage?

Price: $15.80

Provide students with opportunities to create a basic circuit, build a portable version, and explore parallel and series circuits!

Price: $7.30

Students will enjoy exploring sound, waves, forces, and motion with this simple and fun science activity that uses a vibrating rubber band to investigate the variables in creating sound.

Price: $9.00

Create a model car consisting of a simple chassis and a straw-based axle system (simple machine) that teach students about motion along inclined planes, friction,
gravity, momentum, and potential vs. kinetic energy.

Price: $8.90

Go "shopping" using checks to pay for products and learn techniques to accurately keep track of checkbook balances.

Price: $5.30

A must to include in your science lesson plans. Students assemble an easily built spectroscope that allows them to separate incoming light into its component colors, forming a light spectrum (rainbow).

Price: $10.10

A must to include in your science lesson plans. Students assemble an easily built spectroscope that allows them to separate incoming light into its component colors, forming a light spectrum (rainbow).

Price: $21.40

Many catapult designs have evolved over the centuries. The new connect-a-pult demonstrates common items being re-purposed with the aid of a little creative engineering. Even young learners can explore the effects of using different launch angles and force

Price: $12.40

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.

Price: $18.20

Create a working earphone by combining cup lids, a magnet, and a coil of magnet wire. The activity can be done as a step-by-step assembly or as a design exploration. Attach to a sound source and hear music from of a couple of cup lids!

Price: $7.90

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!

Price: $8.80

Student artists of all ability levels can use this flexible technique to create dramatic effects with Faux Stained Glass. Their creations will shine from within, adding a unique dimension to cards, bookmarks and other decorative objects.

Price: $12.10

Use alka-seltzer to create a reaction that builds up pressure in a film canister. Have a blast with this gas-powered flyer.

Price: $9.70

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.

Price: $10.60

Explore an art technique where everyone can be successful. The color pulled from printing foils can create striking patterns for making cards, bookmarks, and other art projects.

Price: $10.70

Create a musical instrument with affordable classroom materials in minutes for students to discover first-hand a wide range of explorations into the science of sound.

Price: $5.30

A teaching resource to demonstrate the science of motion and forces like friction and air pressure, where students create a simple hovercraft that will gracefully glide along on a thin cushion of air.

Price: $13.20

A teaching resource to demonstrate the science of motion and forces like friction and air pressure, where students create a simple hovercraft that will gracefully glide along on a thin cushion of air.

Price: $12.50

Promote student-led learning with these set of materials that correspond to our K-8 units design challenges.