MAKING HANDS-ON LEARNING AVAILABLE TO EVERY STUDENT, EVERY DAY
Kits & Materials for Rent
Many of the following materials come with teacher and student-facing curricular supports. Contact us with a standard, kit, or idea in mind and we will support you in developing a lesson utilizing any of these available materials. Reserve the kit of your choice using the Reservations Tab in the above menu.
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Educators may borrow three free individual items (i.e. one Fraction Fortress game, one GeoKit set, one Lego SPIKE Prime Robot) each school year, pending item availability.
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Materials are first-come, first serve, with priority to school partnerships.
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Kits are delivered and picked-up. Reservation terms typically range from 1-6 weeks.
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OpenSciEd Unit fulfillment is available through a separate contract.
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In-class support is available at an agreed-upon time and an extra fee outside of school partnership agreements.
ACCU-SCOPE MICROSCOPE
Corded or battery-powered microscopes. (8 available.)
ADAFRUIT CIRCUIT PLAYGROUND EXPRESS
Classroom bundle of 20 boards and USB cables.
AIR QUALITY MONITORING DEVICE
Measure equivalent Carbon Dioxide, Volatile Organic Compounds, and PM 2.5. Teacher manual, posters, student processing sheets. (10 air quality monitoring devices available.)
AUTOMOBLOX
Design and build opportunity. (10 available.)
CRICUT MAKER
A table-top cutting machine for paper, fabric, and vinyl. (2 available.)
DICE
Probability? Addition and Subtraction? Board Game Bonanza? (197 Dice available.)
DISSECTION CLASSROOM KIT
10 waxed trays and classroom kit of tools.
ENGINEER'S/ARCHITECT'S SCALE
(41 available.)
FRACTION FORTRESS
Combine wedge-shaped fraction pieces into circles of 1. Classroom bundle of 10 game sets. Pieces can be used as independent manipulatives.
FRACTIOUS
Our prototype equivalent fractions game. As a prototype, Fractious is not yet available for rent. Please contact us if you are interested in play testing it.
GEOKIT
A construction shapes for polyhedra in scales from tabletop to larger than life! (2 kits available.)
GOOGLE AIY VISION KIT
Build your own sensing device utilizing the Raspberry Pi Zero microcontroller and included camera.
GOOGLE AIY VOICE KIT
Build your own AI-powered speaker utilizing the Raspberry Pi Zero microcontroller
GOPIGO ROBOTS​
Initial Robotics Exploratory Set with Free Online Platform Access. (10 available.)
GRAPHING TARPS
Take graphing off the page and into body scale. (One 8x8 foot tarp for whole class work. Three 4x4 foot tarps for small group work.)
HEART MODEL (LIFE-SIZED)
Two models at 3" x 3" x 4.5"
LEGO SPIKE PRIME ROBOTS
Classroom bundle of 10 kits
MAKER CART
More than 50K pieces for hundreds of hands-on exploration and engineering experiences
MICRO:BITS
13 microcontrollers, battery packs, and USB cables
MULTIMETERS
Measure voltage, current, and resistance; recommended for use with Maker Cart "Wind Turbine" output measurements. (10 available)
OPENSCIED UNITS & MATERIALS
Reusable and consumable materials for 3 units each in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science.
SEWING KITS
Assorted needles and thread, scissors and measuring tape. (8 available.)
SNAP CIRCUITS
Use the modular components to investigate circuitry and the basics of electronics. (10 available.)​
VERNIER PROBES
Sensor probes for dissolved oxygen, CO2, temperature, PH, and conductivity along with the Middle School Science Lab Book of processing sheets and background information
