STEMventure Exploration Kits
STEMventure Exploration Kits
Dive into hands-on science learning, book a STEMventure!
Our Exploration Kits are an easy DIY experience that you can check out, making it simple for you to integrate hands-on STEM learning into formal and informal education spaces. We’ve gathered the materials and guides for you! Each kit contains multiple, unique hands-on activities to scale up a child’s knowledge and engage them in real-world exploration of STEM concepts. Kits are aimed at grades K-12. Please inquire if you have any questions or if you’d like to explore how to shape your kit experience to fit classroom or organization goals and needs.
Brand New Experiences!
STEMventures are an important tool for institutions and organizations that need science instruction support. Together, we engage and supplement science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education across the state. Don’t forget to also look at our STEMventure Exploration Kits—a whole library of STEM opportunities—and our SDDC STEM Educator-led STEMventure Programs!
EXPLORATION KIT RATES:
| $200 | 4-week rental, full kit (materials & instructions), shipping within South Dakota borders |
| please inquire | additional booking time or materials refill & shipping within South Dakota borders |
| please inquire | bookings outside of South Dakota |
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Contact scheduling@sd-discovery.org if you have any questions
RATE DISCOUNTS:
Please Note: Only one discount can be applied at a time.
- SDDC Member Discount: 20% | $160 (become a member today!)
- Nonprofit Organization Discount: 5% | $190
- Sponsored Counties Discount (see below): 50% | $100
All schools and nonprofit educational groups from the following counties receive 50% off our STEMventures thanks to support from the Bankwest Foundation: Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Haakon, Hughes, Hutchinson, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Lyman, McCook, Pennington, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Tripp, Todd, and Walwor - SD Libraries Discount (see below): 50% | $100 or less
All South Dakota Libraries receive 50% off STEMventures Exploration Kits thanks to support from the South Dakota State Library. To request a 100% discount, please email SDSL Youth Services Coordinator.
Pick Your Kit!
Looking for a specific STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) topic? Click on your choice to see the kits related to it, otherwise, scroll through all of the kits!
The headings below will jump to the STEM emphasis when you click on them;
click on the kit title for more information about that specific option:
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING MATH
Science
Bioengineering
Grades 5-8 | 3 activities
Super mosquitoes galore, oh no! Wait . . . oh, yay? Using the power of engineering, change the world with genetic modification—for better or worse.
Chemical Faceoff
Grades 2-8 | 5 activities
This plus that equals . . what now!? A reaction, a change, or something different entirely, mixing chemicals and materials yields new innovation!
Structures of Small
Grades 2-8 | 5 activities
Explore the work of real scientists as they break down little structures to their tiniest molecules to understand their potential.
Electric Journey
Grades 4-6 | 5 activities
ZAP! BUZZZ. ZAP! What was that!? Learn how itty bitty electrons power every computer, phone, and other device you use, powered by electricity.
Voyage through the Solar System
Grades 3-8 | 4 activities
The journey through space is full of problems, even when we're simply traveling from the Earth to the Moon. This NISE kit shares NASA's efforts to send humans into space to live, explore, and learn with hands-on lessons and activities.
Discovery in Space
Grades 3-8 | 6 activities
Humans have never traveled beyond the moon, so how do we know so much about space? Using light, observation, and other methods make specialized tools to add to your knowledge and build your own theories about the universe.
Technology
Downsizing: Exploring Nano
Grades K-12 | 6 activites
Zoom into a tiny world full of surprises! Nano lets us explore and study the most fundamental aspects of our world.
BIG Problems, tiny Tech
Grades K-12 | 6 activites
Nano isn’t just in the lab; we can find it everywhere! Explore how nanotechnology solves BIG problems.
More is coming! Email us at info@sd-discovery.org to request Science Pathway STEMventure Exploration Kits information.
FRIN (Further Research Is Needed)
Grades 3-8 | 7 activities
Further Research Is Needed, and you decide where you go. Is your idea worth a BIG investment? Will the risk be worth the reward? Dive into the world of new tech, but remember that assets must be used sparingly.
Oil & Water
Grades 5-8 | 5 activities
Why is there a rainbow in that puddle? With the engineering design process, you solve our modern-day problem of separating oil from water, safely, by determining the best method: chemical, physical, or biological.
More is coming! Email us at info@sd-discovery.org to request Science Pathway STEMventure Exploration Kits information.
Math
Pizza Math
Grades 1-5 | 4 activities
Pulling from the popular Great Exploration in Math and Science (GEMS) curriculum, students open their own pizza place and begin to calculate! How many tables do you need? What about toppings!? Has your restaurant gotten too small; is it time to expand!? Answer these and more questions as you kick off your entrepreneurial desires.
World Math Games
Grades 3-8 | 6 activities
Pulling from the popular Great Exploration in Math and Science (GEMS) curriculum, this kit presents six games involving algebra, geometry, probability, addition, subtraction, and more for students to dive into how math is used around the world.
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