Summary: Learn all about electricity and magnetism. Learn about magnetic fields; how the electricity in your home works; how switches control the electricity to the lights in your home; and how series and parallel circuits affect electricity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elenco 2011
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 172Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeshore
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: GeoSmart Mars Explorer is the ultimate in dynamic magnetic construction. This 51-piece set includes lights, track wheels, motor and a remote control. ..kids can build all kids of creations and make them go!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Toys and Games, Inc.
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This exciting, fast-paced card game provides kids with hard-hitting practice in math skills! Players pick and pass cards quickly to make equations. The first player to make 3 correct equations wins. Reinforces multiplication skills for numbers 1-10. Yet it's so much fun, kids will want to snap it up again and again!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 73Summary: Need help writer that award winning novel? Writer Emergency Pack is a deck full of useful ideas designed to help get your story back on track.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 107Summary: Rubik’s Perplexus Hybrid 2 x 2 unites two mind-challenging puzzles in one! Roll the steel ball to the START space and twist the Rubik’s Perplexus to align the tracks and maneuver the ball through the inner maze. Roll past increasing numbers along the track on your way to the finish line without falling off the track. Put your skills to the test. Complete the Maze, Complete the Cube. The Rubik's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spin Master, LTD 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 225Summary: Race to slide the squares to match your cube shaker, before your opponent finishes! The winner slaps down the frame around the solution in Square Up! It's a tremendously fun, fast and exciting two-player visual thinking game. Each game board is about 8" square.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 91Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: STEM KIT #17 SQUARE UPSummary: Make long-range observations or explore the night sky using the 15x70 SkyMaster Binoculars from Celestron. These binoculars are specifically designed for those tasks and possesses two distinct characteristics that set them apart from many other binoculars and make them a good fit for the purpose. First is the extra-wide 70mm objective aperture, which allows lots of light and delivers good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celestron 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 224Summary: Preschoolers love puzzles! 60 piece puzzles are for the advanced preschool puzzler who is ready for a bigger challenge. With interesting imagery and strategic piece size, these puzzles are perfect for children ages 4 and up!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ravensburger 2010
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 136Summary: Q-bitz Jr. is a fun way to introduce your child to pattern matching, spatial reasoning, problem solving, visualization and more. The engaging play is easy to learn and mastering it will give your child the visual intelligence needed for future math and STEM success. A complete parent guide offers more ways to play with Q-bitz cubes to foster additional learning and visual dexterity. Plus, it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT #13 Q*BITZ JR gameCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 97Summary: A Scrabble-like game in which one to eight players form individual crossword puzzles with words that can change as players continue to draw tiles throughout the game. When there are no more tiles to draw, first player to use all his/her letters wins. Four alternate games described.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bananagrams, Intl. 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Clue Master is a fun logic game that develops the skill of deductive reasoning, a key ability in math, science, computer programming, and many other fields. In this game, you may deduce information based on what must be true even though you can't see it directly. The more you play, the more deductive tricks and strategies you'll learn as you reason logically from the clues you're given!.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 108Summary: Suction Construction takes on a whole new dimension! They're just like the original Squigz: Push them together to build wiggly, wobbly creations and then pull them apart to hear them POP. But now, it's not just the limbs that connect - Their newly designed centers connect, too! Plus, wild curves add a clever new twist of character creativity. Expand your playful sense of curiosity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Brain Toy Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Ozobot Bit Starter Pack gives your child the tools to build a future you can only imagine. Kids learn to control Bit by drawing simple codes with markers and paper, then advance through hours of fun games, brain teasers, and STEM activities found in the Activity Set and Ozobot app. The robot builds both creativity and computer programming skills to integrate the right and left brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Snapino is an introduction to the open-source Arduino® hardware-software coding environment. Learn to code and utilize your Snap Circuits modules at the same time!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elenco 2017
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: #16 SNAPINOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 142Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 4Summary: Vibrant, beautifully crafted, and wonderfully versatile, these high quality beech wood blocks invite young ones to explore and experiment with the endless possibilities of structural creativity.Use them to get a head start on shape learning. Compare them with your environment to show kids how each shape can be found throughout their world. Or, simply let your little one stack, build, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Brain Toy Co. 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's the classic block-stacking, stack-crashing game of JENGA! How will you stack up against the law of gravity? Stack the wooden blocks in a sturdy tower, then take turns pulling out blocks one by one until the whole stack crashes down. Is your hand steady enough to pull out the last block before the tower collapses? If it is, you'll win at JENGA!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area Distict Library 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 70Summary: Breathe Like a Bear is a beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child’s desk at school. The Yoga cards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yogi Fun and others 2017
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 243Summary: Preschoolers love puzzles! 60 piece puzzles are for the advanced preschool puzzler who is ready for a bigger challenge. With interesting imagery and strategic piece size, these puzzles are perfect for children ages 4 and up!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ravensburger 1989
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 133Summary: Preschoolers love puzzles! 60 piece puzzles are for the advanced preschool puzzler who is ready for a bigger challenge. With interesting imagery and strategic piece size, these puzzles are perfect for children ages 4 and up!
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Ravensburger 2010
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 134Summary: "Micro:bit is a pocket-sized codable computer. Simple and easy to use, students are able to learn skills for the future including, coding, designing animated LED games and much more. Because of the ease of use of this platform it can be used across the curriculum not only in STEAM & STEM. The Micro:bit board can be programmed via USB or Bluetooth using the app developed specifically for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Children combine curiosity and creativity as part of their growth process, and adults never quite lose their fascination with unusual toys. Here, we have put together some marbles, some holes, some elemental physics, and a good old-fashioned block set to create "Blocks and Marbles", hands-on creative fun for young and old. Boys and girls enthusiastically stretch their own attention spans while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Scramble the colored squares on this addictive and multi-dimensional cube. Then twist, turn, and rotate to match up the colors again on all 9 sides! Can you master the mysteries of the Rubik's Cube? Can you improve your time once you solve it? Pit yourself against the ultimate brain teaser!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hasbro Games 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Watch your child become a designer, builder, and storyteller right before your eyes. With Build & Imagine’s “Fairytale Theater”, budding thespians will design a set then act out fairytales or make up their own. The mix & match illustrated theater backdrops and plentiful magnetic props provide endless inspiration for young imaginations. Features a pirate cove, treasure map, spooky forest, armor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000