Please Note: Please plan ahead for 2019-2020 school year. As of June 1, deliveries will take place on the first Friday of the month and pickups will take place on the third Friday of the month. Kits and equipment will be kept in your classrooms for two weeks. Please reserve what you need for the month in at least two weeks in advance.
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Life Science Kits
Name of Kit |
Grade Level |
Description |
Kit Number |
Animal Sort |
K |
Students will sort an assortment of animals any way
they like and explain how they are grouped. |
L1 |
Pollination- “A sticky situation” |
K-3 |
Students learn how pollination works by using
Cheetos to simulate pollen. Please
supply your own Cheetos. |
L2 |
Best Beak |
3rd |
Students will explore the needs, characteristics,
and evolution of birds. This kit is fun, students have different “beaks” to
pick up seeds |
L3 |
Betcha Can’t
Find Me Now |
3rd |
Students will explore features that help animals
survive. (camouflage) Also could be used as a beak activity |
L4 |
Flower Dissection |
K-8 |
We supply the tape, Forceps, magnifying glasses and
flower diagram. Please supply your own
fresh flowers. |
L5 |
Adaptation: Bird feathers |
5th-8th |
Using a Microscope students will look at different
birds’ feathers and how they adapt to their environment. |
L6 |
DNA Model Building |
5th
and 7th |
Students will use pool noodles and build a DNA
Model. |
L8 |
From Tadpole to Frogs |
2nd |
Students will use thumbprints to create an
illustration of the growth and change of a frog as it goes through its life
cycle. |
L11 |
Generations of Traits |
5th,
7th |
Students will track the passage of pom-pom traits
through three generations of people. |
L12 |
Habitat and Food Chain |
K – 4th |
Students will explore habitats and the food chain.
This kit is a fun review to see if the students can explain the basic needs
of the animals and where they fall in the food chain. (they use dress up or
hand puppets) |
L13 |
Parts of a Plant |
1st |
Students will learn about the parts of a plant as
they create and connect plant parts. |
L16 |
Practicing Punnett Squares |
5th,
7th |
Students will practice making Punnett squares by
using the phenotypes to find genotypes. |
L18 |
Who Walked Here? |
4th
– 6th |
Students will match pictures of animals to foot
prints. Included in the kit is the
following: cut out prints to make
crayon impressions. |
L22 |
Sugar Shack |
4th-8th |
Discover the harmful amounts of sugar found in
common foods. |
L23 |
Physical Science Kits
Name of Kit |
Grade Level |
Description |
Kit Number |
Chirping
Chicks: Electricity |
K-5th |
Demonstrates open and closed circuits using the human
body as the conductor. |
P1 |
Simple
Circuits: Electricity |
5th-8th |
Create simple circuits. Five small group sets includes motors,
batteries, lights, and wires. |
P45 |
It’s
Electric: Electricity |
5th-8th |
Create Circuits using tinker kits. There are 6 groups slightly different. |
P16 |
Balloon Car |
8th |
Students will utilize their knowledge of kinetic and
potential energy to design and build their own balloon car. Please supply your own paper towel rolls |
P2 |
Newton’s 3rd
Law of Motion |
4th – 8th |
Observe Newton’s third law of motion while testing
the balloon rockets with the different types of string and friction. |
P3 |
Barbie
Bungee |
5th & 8th |
Using Barbies, G.I. Joes,
and rubber bands, students will determine how many rubber bands it will take
for Barbie or G.I. Joe to fall from a predetermined height to have a
thrilling, yet safe fall (scatter plots and line of best fit applicable). |
P4 |
Bernoulli
Ball |
4th |
A hairdryer demonstrates air pressure by moving a
ping pong ball toward a target.
(requires outlets) |
P5 |
Build a
Boat |
4th |
Students will design and build a boat out of
straws and plastic wrap that can hold 25 pennies for at least ten seconds
before sinking. |
P6 |
Conductivity:
Electricity |
5th |
Students will use different materials to understand
conductivity |
P8 |
Drops on a
Penny |
4th |
Students put as many drops of water on a penny as the
can before the bubble pops. |
P12 |
Simple
Machine Levers: Flip That Spoon |
4th |
Explore forces and
levers by making a spoon flip into a cup. |
P15 |
Simple Machines Foss Kit |
4th |
Students will explore the different simple
machines and how and why they make completing tasks easier. |
P18 |
House of
Cards |
4th |
Engineering
introductory activity – students will become familiar with the engineering
design process as they try to build the tallest tower using cards. |
P19 |
Magnets: It’s
Magnetic! |
3rd , 5th & 8th |
Investigate to find common object that are attracted
to magnets. |
P20 |
Magnificent
Magnets |
K-8th |
Many different types of magnets to be used with your
lessons. |
P17 |
Life Vest
Challenge |
4th |
Students will develop a personal floatation
device or life vest out of everyday materials that will provide enough
support to float an unopened can of fruit or vegetables for at least 1 minute
(Engineering/STEM Challenge). |
P21 |
Magic Chain
and Ring |
3rd- 8th |
Students will analyze and predict how this “magic”
trick works. |
P22 |
Smashing
Steel Spheres |
8th |
Mechanical Energy to Thermal Energy |
P23 |
Newton’s 3rd
Law of Motion: Mini Hover Crafts |
4th-8th |
Students will use CDS and balloons to make
mini hover crafts. |
P25 |
Stomp
Rockets 1: Rocketry |
K-4th |
Discuss how different variables affect the distance
travelled by a stomp rocket. |
P28 |
Straw &
Paper Rockets 2: Rocketry |
2nd-6th |
Using a variety of rockets, students will learn about
the concepts of conservation of momentum, thrust, controlling variables, and
recording data. |
Need directions P42 |
Shadow
Makers |
1st |
Students
will investigate light and explain how shadows are made. |
P30 |
Silly Putty |
5th |
Explore the properties of silly putty (a
polymer). Contains a class set. |
P32 |
Simple
Machines |
5th |
Matching the correct card to the simple machine. |
P33 |
Sound |
K-8 |
Students
will investigate how sound is made. Kit includes palm pipes, whirling tubes,
singing frogs, sound waves with spoons, tuning forks, crystal glasses,
xylophone, etc. |
P44 |
Static
Electricity |
5th & 8th |
Students will play with static electricity using a
static wand and salt & balloons. |
P35 |
Vortex
Cannon |
4th & 8th |
Students will explore the application of
force of air to move various objects. |
P38 |
What’s The
Matter |
1st 5th & 8th |
Students will observe the three states of matter in a
bottle. |
P39 |
Sink or
Float? |
K |
Students will classify objects according to their
physical attributes- buoyancy. |
P40 |
Newton’s 1st
law of Motion |
2nd
& 4th |
Inertia Challenge |
P41 |
Alka Seltzer Rockets |
K-8th |
Students will have
a blast sending a film canister blasting off. Great Experiment for changing
variables and demonstrating chemical reactions and Newton’s 3rd
law. |
P43 |
Color Changing Chemistry |
4th-8th
|
Students will
create and observe several different color reactions involving iodine. |
P44 |
Candy Chromatography |
4th – 8th
|
Color Chemistry.
Students will observe the separation of colors through this activity. |
P67 |
Hydrogels Exploration |
K-8th |
Students
will observe the physical properties of matter and explore a polymer. |
P48 |
Invincible Balloon |
K-8th |
Passing
a skewer through an inflated balloon looks like magic, but has a scientific
explanation. |
P49 |
Kitchen Chemistry |
5th-8th |
Students will use
water, salt water, sugar water, and baking soda to observe the effects of
density on small plastic jewels. |
P50 |
Magic Color Changing Flowers |
5th & 8th |
Color Chemistry.
Students will observe a chemical reaction involving color. |
P51 |
Magic Water Demo |
K-8 |
Discover that air
takes up space when the paper towel stays dry. |
P53 |
Surface Tension of Water with Paperclips |
1st-8th |
How many paper
clips can fit into a glass of water? |
P65 |
Pressure: Exploring Air
Pressure |
8th |
Kit is prepped for
6 small groups. Please supply
marshmallows |
P66 |
Tie Dye Chemistry |
4th-8th |
Students will
explore chromatography through this activity.
|
P57 |
Thermal Energy: Heat Loss STEM
Exploration |
3rd |
Discover
how insulation can change the temperature of a building. |
P61 |
Energy & Matter |
8th |
This
kit uses surfaces to show heat conductivity. |
P68 |
Light & Color |
4th & 8th |
Discover
light and how light interacts with objects. Contains prism glasses, prisms,
3D glasses, UV dectors, etc. |
P71 |
Earth Science Kits
Name of Kit |
Grade Level |
Description |
Kit Number |
Constellations |
4th |
Students will be introduced to some star patterns and physical
attributes in the night sky by making a model of a constellation of their
choosing. Glow in the dark beads included. |
E2 |
Earth Beach Balls |
3rd & 7th |
Blowup Earth beach
balls |
E3 |
Earth Moon Model Making
Kit |
k-8th |
This is a model of
the Earth and moon |
E4 |
Evaporation Kit |
6th |
This kit shows the
process of water going into the air (evaporation) |
E5 |
Solar System |
4th & 6th |
Demonstrates distance from planet to
planet from the sun. |
E6 |
Out-Of-This-World Orbits |
6th |
Students will
learn the orbits of the moon and earth. |
E9 |
Soil & Water Sample
Testing |
5th-8th |
Includes pH
testing supplies, pH meter, & hand lens |
E10 |
Sun, Earth, and Moon
System |
K-4th |
Earth and moon
models; lights for making shadows |
E12 |
Shake, Rattle & Roll |
5th |
Students will
design a building to withstand an earthquake |
E13 |
Table Top Fossil Dig |
K – 8th |
Students will explore fossils while digging through
sand. |
E14 |
Water Test: River Project |
4th-8th |
Literacy Connection: A
River Ran Wild Experiments with water |
E15 |
Space Sand |
K-8th |
Explore properties |
E16 |
Weather |
1st - 8th |
(Fun) Students will explore and learn how to read a thermometer
measuring different substances. |
E17 |
Weathering |
3rd & 6th |
Samples of rocks in individual containers showing how different
rocks weather when you shake them over time.
|
E18 |
Science Literacy Kits
Name of Kit |
Grade Level |
Description |
Kit Number |
Charlotte’s Web |
3rd |
Help Fern
build a box that Wilbur can stay in when he has to move outside. Use
the Engineering Design Process and keep in mind Wilbur will grow. |
SL1 |
Goldilocks and the Three
Bears |
K |
Design a
bed that will fit Goldilocks. Uses
measurement. |
SL2 |
My Father’s Dragon |
4th |
Devise a
plan that will help Elmer and the Old Cat travel through the difficult
tropical terrain while trying to circumnavigate dangerous animals on the
Engineering Design Brief. |
SL3 |
Out of the Dust |
6th |
Devise a
plan to prevent/minimize erosion to support Billie Joe Kelby and her family. |
SL4 |
Shiloh |
4th |
Marty is
faced with the challenge of where to hide Shiloh. Devise a plan to help Marty
build a pen for Shiloh. |
SL5 |
Socks |
4th |
Design a
toy that will keep Bickers out of trouble. |
SL6 |
Ten Apples on Top |
K |
Students
will design a hat that will hold up to 10 apples while withstanding the force
of gravity using the Engineering Design Process. Also includes counting
skills. |
SL7 |
The Boy Who Harnessed the
Wind |
3rd, 4th, 5th |
Design
& build a windmill that will power electricity and run an irrigation
system for his crops. |
SL8 |
Three Little Pigs |
K |
Students
won’t build a house in this kit, but they will examine different materials to
predict which materials will be sufficient in building a house. |
SL9 |
Jack & The Bean Stalk |
K-8 |
After
reading Jack & the Bean Stalk and realizing all he wanted to do was help
his mom, design a tower that represents a bean stalk and give it a purpose to
help or make a task easier. |
SL10 |
Math Kits
|
Sustainable Energy Kits
Name of Kit |
Grade Level |
Description |
Kit Number |
Freddy the Fish |
K-8 |
Students will recognize how pollution from fossil
fuels can affect local ecosystems and identify ways to prevent water
pollution. |
SE1 |
Green Snap Circuits |
K-8 |
Students use snap circuits to power alternative
energy. |
SE2 |
K’nex STEM Building Solutions |
4th-8th |
Students investigate solar energy model of their
choosing (i.e. crank man, solar car, etc). |
SE3 |
Solarize a Toy |
5th-8th |
Students will be able to build a circuit, attach
to a toy, and run the toy using solar power.
|
SE8 |

What are Family STEM Nights?
Family STEM Nights sponsored by West GYSTC feature up to 12 activities that come packaged with all the teacher instructions and materials in kits. There are kits by grade level and standard that focus on science, math, literacy and STEM. Some schools also add the hover board or Starlab to their STEM Night activities.

What is the difference between Science Nights and STEM Nights?
Sometimes people ask what is the difference between a family STEM night and a family science night. Both events are run the same way with a variety of activities. To make a “science night” a “STEM night” it is important to make sure that activities have all of the components – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For example, the constellations activity has all of this except technology. In a STEM night, parents help the students explore smart phone apps to make the technology relevant to the hands-on science activity.