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Classroom/STem night kits

Below is a list of kits available for checkout for STEM night use. A short description is included for your convenience. However, please note, some kits can be used for more than one grade level. To submit a checkout request, please click on the "Kit Checkout Form" hyperlink and fill out the form. Delivery and pickup are on Fridays. Please request kits at least two weeks in advance to assure equipment reaches you by your needed date. If you have any questions, please contact West GYSTC at wgystc@gmail.com.
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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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List of Kits Available For Checkout


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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

Name of Kits

Grade Level

Description

Kit Number

All Aboard for Rounding

3rd

Students will discover and apply the rules for rounding numbers as they relate a number line to a train on a mountain.

M1

Area and Perimeter

 

2nd- 5th

A whole lot of garden hose to help students practice finding the area and perimeter of given objects.

M2

Build a Burger

5th

Students will practice problem solving using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division while building a burger. Kit is built for small groups, but can be duplicated to use as a class.

M3

Pizza Fraction

2nd-5th

Build a pizza using fractions

M4

Fraction Golf

 

4th-8th

Students will practice simplifying fractions and solving basic fraction operations in order to get the best par in the class.

M5

Growing Paper Worms

4th

Students will make observations, predictions, estimates and measurements as paper worms begin to “grow”.

M7

Math Games

1st-8th

Various math games that will help students practice their math skills, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, graphing, telling time, counting, and more, in a fun way.

M8

Ordering Up Fractions

4th

Students will play a game in which they try to create the largest (or smallest) fraction and order a series of unlike fractions.

M10

Playing for Odds

7th

Students will decide if a game is a "fair game" by determining the probability of rolling a dice even or odd number.

M11

Pop! Math

2nd-8th

Students will build a pile of popcorn by adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing popcorn pieces.

M12

Problem Solving Puzzles

K-8th

Students will problem solve playing Unifix Sudoku and with Tan grams.

M13

Problems with Dominoes

2nd & 3rd

Students practice calculating sum of 2 digit numbers and products using dominoes.

M14

Skittles Math

4th – 8th

Predicting and communicating results lab (predicted vs. actual, %, mean, median, and mode). Please supply Fun Size Skittle Bag per student.

M15

The Last Straw

4th

Using a straw and two strips of paper, students will make a paper airplane, which really does fly.  They will use their planes in recording distance, graphing and in working the metric system.

M16


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



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​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.


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​What is the difference between Science Nights and STEM Nights?​
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​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.

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