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Curriculum Collection: STEM/STEAM Objects

Kimbel Library has revamped the Curriculum Collection to bring more to your classroom! The Curriculum Collection contains classroom materials for K-12 teachers to enhance their lessons. This collection includes picture books, middle readers, foreign l

Bring STEM/STEAM Experiences to the Classroom!

Get hands-on with our collection of STEM/STEAM kits.

  • BUILD with Lego, Duplo and KNEX sets
  • CODE with Osmo and Botley 
  • EXPLORE new concepts with Kiwi Co. Kits and Engino Exploring STEM Sets
  • IMAGINE with Playmobil, dolls, music and movement sets and so much more! 

BUILD

The dinosaur building sets can build Velociraptor Triceratops and Pterodactyl Figures, have fun with these creative building, all joints and head are poseable; you also can rebuild 4 deformation models or 4 robots. 

This garden pack including trees, plants and bushes, leaves and animals.

The VEX Robotics Construction Zone is perfect for budding engineers and enthusiastic builders! With over 1,350 pieces, kids can create three separate builds - Construction Crane, Dump Truck, and Backhoe!

These 100 PCS 3D magnetic tiles can be combined into a tower, pickup truck, bridge, castle, animals, etc, which can develop children's imagination and creativity. 

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PLAYMOBIL Furnished School Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellerations® World Friends Dolls

Early Toddler Music & Movement Kit

CODE

Osmo - Coding Starter Kit for iPad

  • Fun-filled & award winning learning games. Children interact with actual hand held pieces & an iPad, bringing a child's game pieces & actions to life (No WiFi necessary for game play). An Osmo Base is included, an iPad is not included, both are required for game play.
  • Use hands-on physical blocks, coding commands, to control the character Awbie on a fun-filled adventure (Coding Awbie), an introduction to coding. Use coding blocks to learn coding's creative side while developing an ear for rhythm, melody, and harmony - make your beat come alive, learn patterns & loops with over 300+ musical sounds (Coding Jam). Share a composed Jam with family, friends & the Jam community. Solve advanced side-by-side coding puzzles solo or with others, playing at their own level, using teamwork & strategy to unlock new worlds & coding 60+ puzzles (Coding Duo).
  • SKILLS LEARNED: Logic, coding fundamentals, basics of programming, solve coding puzzles, teamwork, listening, critical thinking, observation, creative problem solving, music creation & pattern recognition. Osmo sees and reacts to real-life movement. Geared towards children & love of learning.
  • WHAT'S IN THE BOX: Osmo Base & Reflector for iPad, 31 tangible coding blocks including: Walk, Jump, Hand, Magic, Rest, Quantifiers (Numbers), Repeat, Subroutines, Stackable storage for game pieces, 3 Game Apps: Coding Awbie, Coding Jam & Coding Duo.
  • COMPATIBILITY FOR IPAD: Compatible iPads: All iPads except Generation 1-4 and iPad Mini 1. iPad Reflector 2021 required for the: iPad Mini 6, iPad Air 4-5, iPad Pro 11-inch & iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3-5. The minimum iOS version needed is iOS 11.

Also Available: 

OSMO Genius Starter Kit

OSMO Creative Starter Kit

OSMO Pizza Kit

OSMO Detective Kit

Meet Botley!

Botley® Coding Robot Activity Set

  • Botley teaches the basics of coding through active play, completely screen free. Perfect for promoting critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Completely screen free coding – no phone or tablet required. Botley® has an easy-to-use remote programmer, which transmits your commands - and off he’ll go!
  • Botley® can detect objects and be programmed to go around objects with if/then logic. He can also follow looping commands, take on obstacle courses, follow black lines and has hidden features to unlock!
  • Botley’s® 77-piece activity set comes with a remote programmer, detachable robot arms, 40 coding cards, 6 double-sided tiles, 27 obstacle building pieces and a starter guide with coding challenges

EXPLORE

Kiwi Co. Domino Machine 

Build your own dazzling domino machine, then use it to help lay out amazing domino runs.

Everything you need — from materials to illustrated blueprint instructions to a step-by-step video tutorial — is included. Plus, the crate comes with 100 domino pieces and a special-edition Tinker Zine magazine all about chain reactions!

Kiwi Co. Oil Cleanup 

Dive into environmental science with this hands-on sensory eco-adventure! Learn how oil affects oceans and the critters that live in them, and explore different ways to clean up spilled oil — from scooping it up to trapping it in a floating boom. Step into the shoes of real-world wildlife rescuers and environmental engineers as you follow along with the story on each page of the included instruction booklet. Ready to learn what it takes — and what you can do — to save ocean life?

Kiwi Co. Rubber Band Car 

Discover a need for speed — with speedy physics! Engineer a race car that runs on rubber band power and see how fast you can make it go. Explore the history of automobiles and the science of supercar speed. Then experiment with your race car to see how design changes can impact strength, speed, and distance.

Includes a step-by-step video tutorial link, illustrated blueprint instructions for this project kit, all the materials, and a special-edition Tinker Zine magazine for more fun!