"The Sphero Mini Activity Kit has everything you need to get rolling and playing. Drive and game with the Sphero Play App or code and learn with the Sphero Edu App. Complete all the challenges and games and then create your own fun--the possibilities are endless. The tiny, wildly popular app-enabled robotic ball now comes with even more to explore! The Sphero Mini Activity Kit has everything little inventors need to get rolling, coding, and playing...

"After reading an engaging passage about Thomas Edison, inventor of the kinetoscope (motion-picture viewer), students use step-by-step cards and building pieces to plan, create, and test a kinetoscope that brings the included filmstrips to life. A detailed lesson plan provides tips and support along the way for teachers, plus information on real-world STEM careers."

"Get engineering and design skills in full swing with this 104-piece set! Use your creativity and imagination to plan and build your own swing set, merry-go-round, slide, and more!"--container.

"Our activity-filled center features irresistible elephant manipulatives with a variety of attributes--giving children fun, hands-on practice with sorting, patterning and counting! The center includes 4 illustrated activity mats, plus 36 easy-grip elephants in 3 sizes and 4 colors. Children just place the animals onto each mat as they practice copying & extending patterns, counting to 20, and sorting by size or color!"--Publisher's website.

Children learn to think like real scientists & engineers—as they design, build & test a working parachute and then improve them until they are successful. Also includes a detailed lesson plan that makes it easy to focus students’ learning & explain the STEM concepts behind each challenge. You even get a careers card that applies what kids are learning to the real world!

"Roll out the adventures with a real-moving robot you design yourself! Just connect any combination of gears, claws, heads and more to a motorized base ... use the remote to direct your mighty robot to roll and turn in any direction you choose ... and set all its gears in motion--from up to 50 feet away! The set comes with 149 pieces, including an easy-to-use wireless remote control. Plus, you get a full-color guide featuring step-by-step instructions...

Targets standards in these areas: Building and understanding circuits, exploring early robotics, developing 21st-century skills.

"Kids use STEM skills to help the Gingerbread Man! Perfect for building problem-solving skills, the kit includes a story card that presents a dilemma for kids to solve. Children have to plan, create and test solutions to get the Gingerbread Man across a river."--Publisher's website

"In this thrilling engineering challenge, players get to build their very own roller coasters. Start by choosing a challenge card and setting up the pieces to match. Then, players use the remaining pieces to build a working roller coaster that meets the build conditions on their challenge card."--Publisher's web site