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RAFT's pre-assembled Activity Kits contain the materials needed to implement specific Idea Sheets (with enough parts for 1-20 students).

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 in either of our RAFT Bay Area Member Centers or the RAFT Online Store.


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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: 45


  • Add It Up

    This simple hands-on activity helps students master important addition facts and become strategic problem-solvers!

    Grade Range: K - 4
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 47


  • Anamorphic 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 42


  • Area 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 - 8
    Students Served: 3-4 Players
    Quantity Available: 54


  • Better Wind Vane

    This easily make wind vane will point to the source of a real or a student generated wind!

    Grade Range: 1 - 8
    Students Served: Serves 20
    Quantity Available: 40


  • Binary 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: 104


  • Binary 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 41


  • Black 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 70


  • Black and White Makes Color Demo

    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
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 77


  • Breaking Through Barriers

    Explore polarized light using polarizing filter material. The displays of many common electronic devices are covered with a polarizing filter to cut glare.

    Grade Range: 3 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 5


  • Bug Pooter

    Create a pooter, or "bug vac" to gently collect and study small creepy crawlies.

    Grade Range: K - 10
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 41


  • Buzz 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 answers!

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 156


  • Cap 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: 48


  • Car on a Roll

    With this simple model "car" students can explore the science of motion and more!

    Grade Range: 2 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 33


  • Catch 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: 158


  • Catching Your Breath

    This quick and simple model may help your students appreciate living with lung disease... and possibly convince them to stay away from smoking.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 178


  • Centimeter 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: 70


  • Centimeter Sam

    This game gives students practice measuring in centimeters. This game can also be used for estimating length.

    Grade Range: K - 6
    Students Served:
    Quantity Available: 84


  • Charge It

    The first electrical experiments were based on static electricity. Students can create motion, light, and sound relatively easily, on a small scale, with static electricity.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 30


  • Chromatography

    Use water to separate the different colors used to create the "black" in black markers.

    Grade Range: K - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 2


  • Circle Game

    A board game that can teach whatever you choose!

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 50


  • Circle Game

    A board game that can teach whatever you choose!

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served:
    Quantity Available: 697


  • Color Wheel Kaleidoscope

    This kaleidoscope has no tube or object chamber and thus is much simpler to put together. A turning colored disk is the source of the reflected patterns.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 3


  • Colors 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 53


  • Colors of Light Demo

    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
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 1


  • Coming Full Circle

    Challenge a group of students to make attribute connections with objects so that they are able to "link" the random items together into a circle.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: serves 10-20
    Quantity Available: 3


  • Connect Three

    Playing this game students will learn about Cartesian coordinates, linear equations, slope, and intercepts in a fun way.

    Grade Range: 5 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 4
    Quantity Available: 46


  • Dive 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 48


  • Dizzy 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: 59


  • EMS Bracelet Demo

    Students can quickly and easily construct this bracelet to help them remember the electromagnetic spectrum, with visible and invisible components.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 147


  • Envelope 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: 39


  • Envelope 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: 75


  • File Folder Weaving

    Like so many traditional tasks, weaving can be much more difficult and challenging than many people realize. Teachers can use weaving activities in a classroom to teach patterns, scientific method, observation skills and history.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 148


  • Finger-Phone

    Create a musical instrument in minutes to explore the science of sound production!

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 39


  • Floating Compass

    This simple and flexible compass design can float on water or be suspended ("float" in the air). It can be used in different ways to support science and geography lessons.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 97


  • Floating 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 26


  • Folded Flutterbys

    Children will develop finger dexterity and eye-hand co-ordination as they create brightly colored butterflies to hang from a string or mobile. Reinforce the concept of the diagonal while accordion folding a square from corner to diagonal corner.

    Grade Range: PK - 4
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 63


  • Folder Boxes

    Don't throw away those used folders or greeting cards! They can be used to teach math. And the end result is a really great box that students absolutely love!

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 61


  • FrackJack

    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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 161


  • Fraction Action Game!

    Explore rational numbers by making fractions from positive and negative integers!

    Grade Range: 3 - 8
    Students Served:
    Quantity Available: 28


  • Freaky 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: 24


  • Give and Take

    This board game gives students practice in regrouping/ trading tens and ones.

    Grade Range: K - 3
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 74


  • Give and Take

    This board game gives students practice in regrouping/ trading tens and ones.

    Grade Range: K - 3
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 806


  • Glove-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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 17


  • Glove-a-Phone Demo

    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
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 44


  • Grapes 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
    Students Served:
    Quantity Available: 49


  • Gravity 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 28


  • Gravity Defying Spring

    Explore what happens when a coiled spring is dropped. Expectations are sometimes different from reality. These discrepant events can create memorable impressions and heighten student interest.

    Grade Range: 2 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 120


  • Hawaiian Yarn Leis

    Students will enjoy creating these fun yarn leis! Use them in a unit on Hawaii, wearable art, Island cultures, or even as a great addition to the "dress up" trunk.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 68


  • Head to One Hundred!

    Find multiples & factors on a 100-grid board. See how the numbers relate to each other.

    Grade Range: 4 - 8
    Students Served: 1-4 Players
    Quantity Available: 38


  • Hole 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: 28


  • Hot Wire Through Styrofoam

    This nifty gadget is a useful tool to cut Styrofoam (TM) and an example of a circuit.

    Grade Range: 3 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 70


  • Hot 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: 40


  • Hovercraft

    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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 63


  • Hovercraft Demo

    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
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 97


  • Human Reaction Time

    Reaction time is key to many things we do: operating a car, flying a plane, riding a bike, or playing sports. In space, astronauts test physical fitness with reaction tests.

    Grade Range: 3 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 8


  • Journaling Your Trash

    Students create a journal out of reused materials, and then collect observations and reflect on their trash attitudes and actions.

    Grade Range: K - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 99


  • Kumihimo

    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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 9


  • Lace 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: 43


  • Leaf Mixture Chromatography

    Explore the science behind the many colorful hues displayed by autumn leaves.

    Grade Range: 3 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 46


  • Leonardo'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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 60


  • Magnetic Field Line Viewer

    This easily made device makes a magnet's unseen magnetic field "visible".

    Grade Range: 2 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 59


  • Making Mountain Models

    This modeling activity can be used to teach topographic map-reading skills. Students draw a fictitious topographic map, and then build the mountain represented by the map's contour lines.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 24


  • Match My Part!

    Match fractions, decimals, percents, and 100's chart cards in this exciting game!

    Grade Range: 3 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 18


  • Meet 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: 33


  • Memory Aerobics

    Students can use a variety of these quick and fun games to practice observation and memory skills.

    Grade Range: PK - 6
    Students Served: serves 10-20
    Quantity Available: 3


  • Mind Mixer

    Students strengthen observation and classification skills as they sort cats and mice.

    Grade Range: K - 3
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 181


  • Mini 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
    Students Served:
    Quantity Available: 37


  • Mini Magnet Wands

    Your students can use this set of 20 mini magnet wands in many traditional and unique magnetic explorations.

    Grade Range: 2 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 82


  • Mixing it Up

    A simple game to improve observation and memory skills.

    Grade Range: K - 6
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 65


  • Modeling 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 39


  • Moon Mobile

    Create a mobile with the 4 points and the 4 intervals known as the phases of the Moon.

    Grade Range: 3 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 55


  • Nine 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 73


  • Occasions for an Equation!

    This flexible game is two games in one. Students can either evaluate or solve algebraic equations. Both games reinforce order of operations, evaluating equations, and solving equations.

    Grade Range: 4 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 32


  • Ojo de Dios

    These yarn weavings have magical and ritual significance to the Huichol peoples of Northwestern Mexico, and the craft has grown into a popular activity throughout North America.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 77


  • Place Your Number Value

    This fast-paced game reinforces place value, rounding, and comparison of number values! It may be customized to include decimals, fractions, and/or negative numbers.

    Grade Range: 1 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 85


  • Pop goes the Mountain

    Develop students' topographic map reading skills while making models showing the powerful effect of a volcanic eruption!

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 24


  • Price 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
    Students Served:
    Quantity Available: 72


  • Puff Rocket Demo

    Explore forces and motion with a straw "rocket" and an easily made launcher.

    Grade Range: K - 12
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 127


  • Retractor a Go-Go Car Demo

    Learn about wheels, hubs, and axles, while making a vehicle that can really move!

    Grade Range: 2 - 12
    Students Served: 1 Student
    Quantity Available: 12


  • Salmon 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
    Students Served: Serves 8
    Quantity Available: 73


  • Shake Table

    Building in earthquake country can be a tricky business. Architects and engineers run simulations using models and shake tables to test the integrity of buildings and determine necessary reinforcements. In this activity, students use a very simple, non-motorized shake table to test their structures.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 36


  • Shake Your Butter

    No need for a huge churn to observe wonderful and tasty changes.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 29


  • Spinner on a Media Tray

    A spinner created from 1 or 2 media trays allows the "fields", located below the spinner, to be changed so the spinner can be used for many games and activities.

    Grade Range: K - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 83


  • Staple 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: 72


  • Starchy Structures

    Young children will enjoy investigating solubility and material properties of this packing material while they use their creative minds to build wild and wacky structures!

    Grade Range: PK - 3
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 25


  • Static Merry-go-round

    This unique adaptation of the first static motor lets students create spinning motion using only static charges. The design can be easily modified for experimentation.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 41


  • Super 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: 143


  • Tangram Tactics!

    Tangrams not only make interesting pictures, but when described mathematically, they reveal geometric fractions, decimals, and percents!

    Grade Range: 4 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 7


  • Taxi

    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: 31


  • Taxi

    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: 395


  • The 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 61


  • Thinking Like a Real Survivor

    Students deconstruct an object by focusing on its attributes rather than its intended function, allowing them to see the object's potential for alternate use.

    Grade Range: K - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 58


  • Tongue 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
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 135


  • Triangle Tango

    Determine if triangles can be formed with side lengths obtained by rolling a die!

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 10
    Quantity Available: 133


  • Turtle Time

    Use this game to help younger students (5-8 years) practice letter sounds, sight words, rhyming words, spelling, ESL... anything!

    Grade Range: PK - 3
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 10


  • Turtle Time

    Use this game to help younger students (5-8 years) practice letter sounds, sight words, rhyming words, spelling, ESL... anything!

    Grade Range: PK - 3
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 119


  • Wave Mobile

    Use this simple-to-make rotational wave demonstrator to observe potential and kinetic energy transfers as wave energy is transferred from one end to the other.

    Grade Range: 3 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 39


  • What Shapes Can it Become

    What interesting shapes can be formed using identical units of 4 corks each?

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 40


  • What the Heck is a Preform

    The last decades of the 20th century saw a major change in the way products were sold at markets around the world. Plastic containers are now a common form of packaging for everything from soda to soap, more durable and safer than glass.

    Grade Range: PK - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 62


  • Who's the Daddy?

    We see DNA fingerprinting more and more often in the news for a variety of applications. This simplified model helps students visualize the analysis process.

    Grade Range: 7 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 7


  • Wired on the Water

    In this activity, students investigate one of the special properties of water: surface tension. Coated copper wire has a greater density than water, and will normally sink; but a fancy shape and a steady hand makes for fun science investigations! Which shapes will rest on waters' surface best?

    Grade Range: 4 - 8
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 83


  • Word 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: 70


  • Wrap It Up!

    A simple technique can be used to turn thin paper into surprisingly strong tubes.

    Grade Range: 4 - 12
    Students Served: Kit for 20
    Quantity Available: 43


  • Yes and No

    Students use a collection of objects for this realia version of "20 Questions".

    Grade Range: PK - 3
    Students Served: serves 10-20
    Quantity Available: 3


  • Zero 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: 29