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littleBits Challenge Kits

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littleBits is an award-winning modular electronics platform that has put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone. Just snap them together—no soldering, programming, or wiring needed.

Please ensure that all components are included when returning kit.

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LightUp Electricity Kit

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Learn about electronics and programming with this circuitry kit. Build circuits in seconds with these magnetically snap-together blocks. Use the FREE iPad app to take a picture of your project and it will help you see how it works, and will help with the next steps. You can also program the Microcontroller using Codebender.

This Curriculum Kit includes:

  • 2 Edison Kits
  • 2 Tesla Kits
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Ion: A compound building game

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ION: A Compound Building Game is a card drafting game where players select from a number of available Ion Cards and Noble Gas cards with the goal of creating sets of compounds and inert noble gases.

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Science
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30 min.
Ion: A compound building game

Inside Biosphere 2

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Copies: 6

Biosphere 2 was built nearly thirty years ago to develop technologies for human living in space and on other worlds. Eight biospherians survived sealed inside the engineered ecosystem for two years. The results of the mission were mixed, but they definitely succeeded in constructing a research facility like none other in the world.

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1060L
Inside Biosphere 2

Teaching Secondary Science Through Play

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Copies: 8

This book provides broad support for using games in middle and high school science classes including Earth science/living environment, biology, chemistry, and physics. The lesson plans and resources support a play-based approach to evolution, ecosystems, cellular organisms, elements and compounds, and vector motion. Though easy to learn, the included games provide detailed scientific accuracy allowing complex simulations and immersive learning experiences.

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Evolution. Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, Sergey Machin. North Star Games, 2014.

Teaching Secondary Science Through Play

Breakthrough: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

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Copies: 6

On a cold day in November 1944, eighteen-month-old Eileen Saxon was brought into an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She could barely breathe, and he lips and fingertips had turned a dusky blue, the result of a heart condition known as blue baby syndrome. Most doctors who had seen her expected her to die within hours.

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Breakthrough: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

Cubelets Modular Robotics Kit

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Cubelets are magnetic blocks for children age 4+ that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. Each Cubelet has a tiny computer inside of it and is a robot in its own right. When you put Cubelets together, you're actually making a robot out of several smaller robots. Each Cubelet communicates with its neighbors so you know that if two blocks are next to each other, they're talking. Sense Cubelets act like our eyes and ears. Action Cubelets act as outputs. They do things like make noise, spin, drive or shine a light.

Cubelets Modular Robotics Kit

The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs

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Despite being completely nonfiction, this title reads with all the suspense and mystery of any great novel. The story begins in 1996, when Karen Lips travels to a high mountain forest in Panama to study the golden frogs that live there. Upon discovering a large amount of dead frogs, Karen collects a few of them and later learns that a fungus is to blame for the frogs' death. Over the next decade, Project Golden Frog is launched and put into motion in order to collect and protect Panama's golden frogs until the fungus can be understood and controlled.

The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs

Exploring Flowers

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Details the characteristics of flowers, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Exploring Flowers

Exploring Leaves

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Details the characteristics of leaves, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Exploring Leaves

Exploring roots

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Details the characteristics of roots, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Exploring roots

Exploring seeds

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Details the characteristics of seeds, how they grow, and the purpose they serve toward creating new plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Exploring seeds

Exploring Stems

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Details the characteristics of stems, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Exploring Stems

Lightning, hurricanes, and blizzards

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Explains how storms form, where they strike, and what makes them so powerful. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Lightning, hurricanes, and blizzards

My five senses

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Simple text and color illustrations introduce young readers to the five senses and how they are used.

My five senses

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