Lending Library materials and resources are available to be loaned out to school districts for a maximum of FOUR (4) WEEKS or 26 DAYS. Requests will be granted on a first come first serve basis. We do ask that you try to give at least a four week notice to allow for pick-up/delivery of items.
Bee-Bot (with Bluetooth connection) lets you program the robot from a tablet or PC as well as with the on-board keys. Use the command keys on its back to send Blue-Bot forward and back, left and right and teach sequencing, directionality, problem-solving, counting, and estimation. Take Blue-Bot to the next level by controlling it remotely with the Tactile Reader or the free app on iPads or Android tablets Windows or Mac PCs.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)The Breakout EDU kits bring the four C's alive! All Breakout EDU games require critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication. Kits offer a unique collection of resettable locks, boxes, and items that can be used to play immersive games, which span over 700 academic topics. Teachers and students can also build their own content aligned games.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Cue robot is designed for students who have an love of coding! Cue will help them transition from block-based code to state-machine and text-based programming. Cue’s motors and sensors work together seamlessly to provide accurate and versatile behavior while reacting in real time to its surroundings, inspiring kids to build problem-solving skills through coding, engineering, and design.
(Funded by Range Resources)Dash and Dot are clever robots with multiple sensors that responds to voice, navigates objects, dances, and sings. Dash and Dot can be programed with free apps including Wonder, Blockly, Path, Go, and other apps to create new behaviors. Students will learn about robotics and develop fundamental coding and problem-solving skills while having fun.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 gives you the power to create and command your own robotic LEGO creatures, vehicles, machines and inventions! By combining LEGO elements with a programmable brick, motors and sensors, you can make your creations walk, talk, grab, think, shoot and do almost anything you can imagine!
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)The Finch is a robot designed to inspire and delight students learning computer science from Kindergarten to college. Program in software languages like Scratch, Python, and Java and can be used with beginners or advanced programmers! Works with Chromebook, Windows, and Mac systems.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)The physical and digital teaching tool that lets you discover the world of molecules in an intuitive, hands-on way. Create molecules from plastic atom models that connect easily using magnets. Discover the identities of the molecules you build by scanning them with the app. Explore the molecules you discover, assemble collections of them, and complete guided chemistry tasks in the educational app.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities that involve the making of robots, kinetic sculptures, and animatronics built from familiar materials. Combined with very easy-to-use software like Scratch, Snap!, the CREATE Lab Visual Programmer, and Ardublock. Hummingbird continues to provide new challenges by allowing programming in the Arduino environment, Python, Java, and Processing, and supports Raspberry Pi.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Easy-to-use electronic building blocks that empower students to create inventions, large and small. The kits are composed of electronic building blocks that are color-coded, magnetic, and make complex technology simple and fun. They’re interchangeable in millions of different ways allowing students to invent anything - from a wireless robot, to a digital instrument, and more.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Makey Makey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Students can turn everyday objects into touch pads and combine them with the digital technologies. It's a simple Invention Kit for beginners and experts doing art, engineering, and everything in-between. The kit will include: Makey Makey, Alligator Clips, USB Cable.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)The BBC micro:bit is a physical computing device that provides a bridge between abstract concepts and tangible experiences. Develop fluency in concepts and languages of computer systems and foster digital creativity in your classroom. Students make the connections between abstract ideas and real world outcomes by working with software and hardware together: designing, building, prototyping, iterating.
The Explorer Kit comes with everything you need to play Numbers, Words, Tangram, Coding Awbie, and Monster. For the ultimate Newton and Masterpiece experiences, this kit also includes a dry-erase creative board and markers specially selected to best utilize Osmo technology, along with a fuzzy pouch that doubles as an eraser.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Bit & Evo get students coding and loving robots through customized coding with colors or advanced OzoBlockly online programming. Start coding screen-free with the Activity pack by using markers to create color codes to code Bit or Evo and run your program. Advance with OzoBlockly and program Evo's or Bit’s movements, speed, and LED light. Evo's or Bit's programmable features include optical sensors, and LED lights.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Learn STEM skills while having fun! Puzzlets is a hands-on learning game system for thinking. Puzzlets combines hands-on play with interactive gaming to form one seamless experience, that engages the mind and teaches the player new ways of thinking. Coding is built on developing the use of logic and sequencing, which instills in your student confidence in their ability to solve challenges of any kind. Cork the Volcano and Dash Robot Sets available.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Easy and fun electronics learning! Follow the provided diagrams or build your own exciting projects, such as FM radios, digital voice recorders, AM radios, burglar alarms, doorbells, and much more! All parts are mounted on plastic modules and snap together with ease. Students can enjoy hours of educational fun while learning about electronics. No tools required. Uses AA batteries.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Equipped with Bluetooth and a scratch-resistant, durable shell, Sphero takes hands-on learning up a notch. Programmable sensors like motor encoders, LED lights, accelerometer, and a gyroscope allow for countless experiences and coding conditions. Connect Sphero to the Sphero Edu app and learn to code by drawing paths, using Scratch blocks, or writing your own JavaScript text programs.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)Take off and experience the world from exciting new perspectives. Tello has two antennas that make video transmission extra stable and a high-capacity battery that offers impressively long flight times. Students can you can perform awesome tricks and with just a tap on screen. Equipped with a high-quality image processor, Tello shoots incredible photos and videos. Tello Edu is a mobile programming app that supports Scratch. Students can command Tello to perform corresponding movements by dragging coding blocks on their smart mobile device.
(Funded by the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation)This Storytime STEM-Pack includes all the materials you need to engage children in a mathematics activity that addresses the concept of operations and algebraic thinking, in particular working with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication. By introducing the children to the theme of urban gardening, it also links to life science concepts and human impact on Earth's systems.
This Storytime STEM-pack includes all the materials you need to engage kids in science activities that address the concept of sound, in particular that sounds can be man-made or natural, and how vibrating matter can make sound.
This Storytime STEM-Pack includes all the materials you need to engage kids in an engineering design task that also required the application of science concept of properties of matter and force and motion.
This Storytime STEM-Pack includes all the materials you need to engage children in a mathematics activity that addresses the concepts of counting, subitizing, and addition within 20 by using a number bead board/rekenrek.
Earth Day Adventures STEM+C will engage young learners in STEM and computer science through a set of five integrated Storytime STEM+C challenges.
6 Bee-Bots and mats are included in this kit.
Blue Girl Adventures will engage young learners in STEM and computer science through a set of five integrated Storytime STEM+C challenges.
6 Bee-Bots and mats are included in this kit.