Available STEM Materials

Provided below is a list of instructional resources that are available for all Wilson County Schools teachers to check out from the district STEM lab throughout the school year. If you are interested in borrowing any materials, please fill out the check out form or reach out to your digital teaching & learning specialist. Please allow at least two weeks for materials to be sent through the courier.

Stay tuned for more materials to be added soon!

Check Out Form

Building Materials

Keva Planks

Maple rectangular blocks that are easy for students to build various structures, such as bridges, buildings, shapes, demonstration of force and motion, and more.

Keva Build Examples

Lego

Have students express their creativity through the use of Lego building. Legos can also be used to embed within your curriculum, such as using as math manipulatives to model fractions or building models of structures such as a pyramid.

K'Nex

Have students explore gears, pulley's, simple machines, and more by building structures using K'nex kits.

MakeDo Sets

A kit of screws and specialized tools made just for cardboard!

MakeDo Education Examples

Straws and Connectors

Use straws and connectors to build shapes and structures.

Strawbees

Use strawbees to build shapes, structures, and more.

Magna Tiles

Explore building structures and 3D shapes using magnets.

Magna Tiles Car Expansion

Studying force and motion? Need cars to test? Borrow these with the Magna Tiles set and see which car performs the best!

Robotics

Spheros

A robot that students can code and drive using block coding.

Lessons and Activities

Cue the Robot

Similar to Dash, teach Cue different movements and tasks though drag and drop coding.

Grades 6-12

Ozobots

Great way to introduce the basics of coding! Ozobot moves by identifying certain colors using red, blue, green, and black markers.

Ready to go Lessons!

Dash the Robot

Explore the basics of drag and drop coding using Dash the Robot!

Grades 2-5

BeeBots

Spike Prime

Sphero Indi

Circuitry

Circuit Scribe Kit

Grades 7 - 12

Intro to Snapcircuits

Grades K-2

Snapcircuit Motion

Grades 3-12

Snapcircuits Lights

Grades 3-12

Snapcircuit 3D Illumination

Grades 6-12

MakeyMakey

Conduct tests to see what items can conduct electricity by using this MakeyMakey kit!

Copper Tape

STEM Misc.

Fossil Mounds

Fossil mound donated by the Aurora Fossil Museum. Dig through the mound to search for fossils, sharks teeth, shells and more.

Rocks

Learning about the rock cycle? Need different rocks to test with? This kit comes with a variety of different kinds of rocks and minerals for students to conduct tests for hardness, luster, etc.