This kit includes unplugged activities, 12 Makey Makeys, 12 Raspberry Pi kits, Turing Tumbles along with a multitude of lesson plans and modules to get your classroom inventing! 

This trunk was provided by generous grants from Cross Charitable Trust and the Idaho STEM Action Center.

Explore the importance of animal, plant, and environmental conservation through hands-on materials.

Activites specifically designed to introduce students ages 2-5 to STEM space topics with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include: Hide and Seek Moon, Story Blocks, Measure Up!, Bear’s Shadow, Early Explorations

Explore the Earth with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include:  Investigating Clouds, Mission to Space, Paper Mountains, Rising Sea

Explore the Moon with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include:  Craters, Moonquakes, Observe the Moon, Training Games: Spacelebrity, Great Minds Think Alike, and Sort It Out.

Explore the stars with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include:  Nebula Spin Art, Orbiting Objects, Star Formation, Space Guess Quest

Explore the Sun with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include:  Magnetic Fields, Solar Eclipse, Pocket Solar System, Big Sun, Small Moon

Explore the universe with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include:  Exoplanet Transits, Filtered Light, Objects in Motion, Imagining Life, Ice Orbs

Explore GPS and compass technology through hands-on lessons with our set of ten easy-to-use Garmin eTrex devices and our set of 10, Coghlan’s deluxe map compasses.

Explore Idaho Falls history through historic photographs, science experiments, and more!

Bring chemistry into any classroom with these exciting and easy hands-on activities from the NISE Network’s Explore Science: Let’s Do Chemistry Toolkit.

Learn about engineering challenges to withstand the harsh environment in space with hands-on materials and lessons from the NISE network.

• Activities include: Asteroid Mining, Design – Build – Test, Stomp Rockets, Pack a Space Telescope, Mars Rover

Learn all about how fossils are formed and the different types of fossils through hands-on specimens and activities.

The Museum of Idaho has a large collection of skulls, shells, and fossils for educational use. Contact Chloe to set up an appointment to come in and design your own discovery trunk!  

Requires at least 2 weeks lead time before materials are needed in the classroom.