Stem Resources

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  • Little Bits Code Kit gives you a powerful toolbox to easily teach standards-aligned curriculum, while engaging kids in computational thinking. By building circuits and programming, students get a hands-on understanding of "what's inside the machine" and how it connects to the software. Students gain creative confidence and critical 21st century skills through scaffolded activities.

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Pi-Top 3 Laptop - Inventor Kit
Slide out the keyboard to reveal the built in Modular Rail. It's a workspace for you to build your creations, using pi-top accessories and electronic components.

​pi-top teaches you to create your own inventions on your journey as an inventor. We’ll help you get started with this awesome inventor’s kit click the icons to see what you can make.

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CS First projects involve block-based coding using Scratch.
The CS First kit includes lesson plans and solution sheets for the teacher, as well as fun passports and stickers for the students.
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Classroom Invention Literacy Kit
Makes STEM Education fun!
                         
Perfect for classrooms, schools, districts, workshop teachers, and anyone else that wants all their Makey Makeys in a really nicely organized briefcase. The Makey Makey STEM Kit is a distillation of 12 Makey Makeys, 12 booster packs and some extra parts for when you want to invent something even bigger.

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Sphero Mini Education PackThis special pack of 30 Sphero Mini robots is available exclusively to educators at a discounted price. The pack contains everything you need to get started teaching robotics and the fundamentals of programming… only smaller. These Sphero Mini robots are brand new and come with a 1 year limited warranty. Sphero Mini packs tons of fun into a tiny, app-enabled robot about the size of a ping pong ball. Download the Sphero Edu app and program your robot using JavaScript, or check out specific Sphero Mini programs and activities.

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DJI Tello EDU Large Classroom KitTello EDU is an impressive and programmable drone perfect for STEAM education. You can easily learn programming languages, such as Scratch, Swift, and soon with Python. With an upgraded SDK 2.0, Tello EDU comes with more advanced commands and increased data interfaces. Complete with DJI’s flight control technology, Tello EDU also supports Electronic Image Stabilization. Students can even write code to command multiple Tello EDUs to fly in a swarm and develop amazing AI functions. Programming has never been this fun thanks to Tello EDU!
The DJI Tello EDU Large Classroom Pack is a complete solution with 20 drones and necessary equipment, supporting 20-60 students.

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Grades: 3+


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