Research Guides: STEAM Kits: Art, Language, and Creativity

Bloxels [Game]

Bloxels [Game] Using the Bloxels game, students can connect their physical creation with a digital version. Colors on the game board translate into different kinds of objects in the video game, like coins and enemies. This creates a setting for a video game that students can play on a smart device using the free Bloxels app. This process teaches skills in building interactive logic puzzles and working as a team. The game can be applicable to art, technology, or engineering lessons, among others.
Call Number: 794.8 BLO STEAM Kit

Level: Grade 3-12

Requires App and smart device

Tags: creative, computer science, design, engineering, games, problem solving, puzzles

Electronic Snap Circuits [Circuit] The Electronic Snap Circuit has many parts that can be put together to channel electricity to accomplish a task, like turning on a light or a fan. With this STEAM Kit, students will learn how they can use electricity to produce sounds, generate motion, and build games. This game will support a range of science-based lessons plans about electricity, circuitry, and robotics.
Call Number: 537.5 ELE STEAM Kit

Level: Grade 3-12

Tags: circuits, conductivity, creative, games, invention, robotics

Google Cardboard [VR] Google Cardboard can bring any lesson plan to life by immersing students in a new reality. Simply choose a Virtual Reality (VR) app and place a smartphone inside the cardboard headset. There are countless apps teachers can use with Google Cardboard, including Google Expeditions, Google Street View, YouTube, Discovery Channel, and Cardboard Camera. Teachers can find virtual reality apps and lesson plans for any subject, including math, art, science, and social studies.
Call Number: 006.8 GOO STEAM Kit

Level: K-12
Requires smartphone

Tags: art, computer science, experience, virtual reality

LittleBits Code [Circuit] With the Littebits Education Code Kit, students can connect their circuit inventions to a computer and use code to display images or words with their creation. The building process helps students understand how circuits work, how they can use circuits to connect hardware and software, and the basics of coding. Circuitry and coding with LittleBits can be incorporated into any lesson plan to connect computer science to other educational subjects.
Call Number: 621.3 LIT STEAM Kit

Level: Grade 3-8
Requires computer and app

Tags: circuits, coding, creative, invention

Osmo Masterpiece [Art Set] Students can create masterpieces using pre-made images or drawing pictures they took themselves. Masterpiece translates images into lines. Then, it projects the whiteboard onto the screen with the image lines overlaid so that students can draw the outline themselves on the whiteboard. Osmo Masterpiece can be used in lessons about art, or students can use it to draw images corresponding to vocab words in a variety of subjects.
Call Number: 794.8 OSM STEAM Kit

Level: K-7
Requires iPad

Tags: art, creative, osmo, shapes

Osmo Tangrams [Game] In Osmo Tangrams, the iPad displays a shape, and students arrange the tangram tiles in front of the iPad where the reflector can see if they’ve built the shape correctly. The game helps students build geometry skills. Students will learn problem-solving skills and spatial thinking which will help them develop their understanding of geometry for more complex theories. These puzzles can be incorporated into lesson plans about geometry or art.
Call Number: 794.8 OSM Tangram + Base STEAM Kit

Level: K-7
Requires iPad

Tags: art, games, geometry, puzzles, shapes

Osmo Words [Game] The Osmo Words kit uses an app and letter tiles to teach students how to build words. Different levels of activities prompt students to spell the image on the iPad screen. The reflector on the iPad allows the app to know what the students have spelled. The game difficulty can be adjusted to the students’ age. This game helps students develop vocabulary skills, spelling skills, and matching skills. This kit can be implemented into lessons about spelling or vocabulary.
Call Number: 794.8 OSM Words + Base STEAM Kit

Level: K-7
Requires iPad

Tags: english, games, osmo, puzzles, vocab

Snap Circuits Light With this STEAM kit, students put together different conductive parts to produce light, sound, and motion with electricity. The parts of the kit can be combined to create over a hundred different circuits to accomplish different tasks. Snap Circuits Light could be used in lessons about electricity, conductivity, and engineering, among others.
Call Number: 537.5 SNA STEAM Kit

Level: K-12

Tags: creative, circuits, conductivity, engineering

Squishy Circuits [Circuit] This kit comes with conductive and non-conductive dough for students to mold into shapes. It also comes with circuits and lights which, when assembled and connected, light up the molded creations. Students can build their own creations with the dough, including crowns, animals, or vehicles, and then apply concepts of conductivity to decorate their sculptures with lights. This kit is great for science, art, and vocab lessons, and more.
Call Number: 621.381 SQU STEAM kit

Level: Grade 3-8

Tags: art, circuits, conductivity, creative, design, invention

littleBits education STEAM student set [Robot] When given the chance to create their own invention and build something unique, students discover the power of engineering. The Steam Student Set comes with different parts to build inventions that move, light up, and more. It teaches goal-oriented invention design to students through fun, hands-on challenges. Invention tasks can support a range of lesson plans, especially engineering or physics lessons, but also for language arts and other subjects.
Call Number: 621.3 STEAM kit

Level: Grade 3-12

Tags: creative, circuits, design, engineering, invention, robotics

Vex IQ super kit [kit] / Innovation First Labs, Inc Use the parts in this kit to build any pre-designed robot or create your own. The robots can be operated using pre-programmed code or students can build their own code. The Vex company also runs robotics competitions for students to compete in! The Vex IQ Super Kit can teach students skills in engineering, coding, programming, and challenge them to learn and innovate through competition. This kit is perfect for driving students to learn in a hands-on, creative environment.
Call Number: 372.35 VEX STEAM Kit

Level: Grade 3-9

Tags: creative, coding, design, engineering, programming, robotics