Stem/Steam Checkout Materials

We have a number of items  that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.  These are educational in nature, but also provide hours of entertainment.  Check-out time if 30 days.  So stop by and see the collection we have.  Shown below is part of our collection.

STEM/STEAM Options for Toddlers and Younger Children (ages. 2-8):

  • Bloxels: Build Your Own Video Game
  • Bridge Building Center
  • Botley 2.0: The Coding Robot 
  • Building Brick Challenge Kit
  • Brix 
  • Coding Critters--Chameleon
  • Circuit Maze
  • Craft Construction Box 
  • Counting Money Flash Cards  
  • Cublets
  • Domino Action
  • Educational Insights Design & Drill Activity Center 
  • Elongdi Magnetic Sticks 
  • Farm Yard Barn Tiles
  • Fisher-Price Worm Toy Coding
  • Gear it! 
  • Go Pets--Dogs
  • Gravity Maze
  • Imagination Magnets 
  • Imagination Patterns Deluxe 
  • Keva Bot Maze 
  • Keva Create 
  • Keva Contraptions 
  • LaserMaze
  • Leapfrog Magic Adventures Microscope
  • Magna Tiles
    • Magna-Tiles Set 1 
    • Magna-Tiles Set 2 
    • Magna-Tiles Set 3 
  • Magnetic Sticks Set
  • Magnetic Gravity Loops & Turns
  • Math Dice 
  • Mathlink Builders
  • Mega Marble Run
  • Melissa & Doug Body Science Puzzle 
  • My First Math Dice
  • National Geographic Magnetic Marble Run
  • Pattern Play
  • Pretend and Play Cash Register 
  • QBA Maze 2.0 
  • Qbitz Solo
  • Qbitz Jr.
  • Quadrillion puzzle game
  • Snapz building set
  • Spirograph Deluxe Set
  • Spirograph Mandala Maker
  • Squishy Circuits
  • Staw & Connectors
  • Telling Time Flash Cards 
  • Toddler STEM Backpacks (five different backpacks focused on tools, shapes, colors, etc)
  • Totter Game
  • Tower Cubes
  • Trestle Tracks
  • Turn and Learn Magnetic Gears
  • Turtle Think and Learn
  • Vehicle Building Center

STEM/STEAM Options for Older Children and Teens (ages 9 to 15):

  • BLOXELSTM Build Your Own Video Games*
  • CanaKitTM Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit 32 GB EVO+ Edition*
  • Circuit Maze
  • Craft-Struction Box sets
  • Discovery STEM: Architecture Set: Eiffel Tower and Syndey Bridge
  • Discovery STEM: Newton's Laws: Inertia, Momentum, Kinetic & Potential Energy
  • Gravity Maze
  • Gear It!
  • IPTV Building Challenge Backpacks (Donated by The Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation)
  • Makey Makey *
  • Power Circuit Kit
  • Snap Circuits (Light*, Sound*, Smart Circuits, etc)
  • Sphero Coding Robot
  • Squishy Circuits
  • STEM Challenges (30 cards)
  • Strawbees
  • Super Slide Pattern & Strategy Game
  • A variety of LEGOTM sets 

*Must be 18 and in good standing to check-out

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Toddler STEM Backpacks

(1 month check-out)

A selection of STEM options to check-out. NOTE: with some items, you must be 18 years or older and must be in "good standing" to check-out.

STEM Backpacks for grades Kindergarten--3rd grade

The Iowa STEM Advisory Council of North Central Iowa delivered five backpacks of STEM goodies to us just recently. Each kit includes children’s books, activity guides, and games to keep children learning science, technology, engineering, and math this summer.

The STEM packs themes are “Fabulous Five Senses” with a microscope, “Perfect Patterns” with pattern blocks, “Humpty Dumpty” with DUPLO blocks, “Fabulous Fractions” with a fun pizza game, and “Bee and Me” with a programmable Bee-Bot robot.

Because the packs are new, each pack is available for a two-week checkout. 

STEM Cart Items 

The library received a generous donation of a STEM cart filled with children’s science, technology, engineering, and math games from the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation and Iowa Select Farms. The library was one of 50 rural libraries nominated to receive a cart this year. We are grateful to those who nominated our library.  All STEM games on the cart are available for check-out and use in the library.

Games and Activities housed on the STEM cart:Stem Cart.jpeg

Recommended for Ages 3+

  • Bridge Building Center
  • Design Drill
  • Farm Yard Barn Tiles
  • Fisher-Price Worm Toy Coding
  • Magna-Tiles Set 3
  • Matching Alphabet Eggs
  • Melissa & Doug Body Science Puzzle
  • Mini ABC Pops
  • My First Math Dice
  • Pattern Play
  • Qbitz Jr.
  • Totter Game
  • Turn and Learn Magnetic Gears
  • Turtle Think and Learn
  • Vehicle Building Center

Recommended for Ages 4+

  • Building Brick Challenge Kit
  • Coding Critters--Chameleon
  • Cublets
  • Go Pets--Dogs
  • Mega Marble Run
  • Snapz building set
  • Straw & Connectors

Recommended for Ages 5+

  • Botley 2.0 Robot
  • Domino Action
  • Imagination Magnets
  • Imagination Patterns Deluxe
  • Leapfrog Magic Adventures MIcroscope
  • Mathlink Builders (100 cube set)
  • Strawbees Maker Kit

EXPLORERS PACKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!

This project was made possible through the generous support of a $3,000 grant from the Butler County Community Foundation to kickstart our Library of Things initiative and Traveling Makerspace.

Get outside and learn about our natural world. Created for the curious kid in your life, these packs will guide you through science concepts regarding the following topics:

Budding Birders 🐦

Everything Weather ⛅️

Insects and Butterflies 🐜🦋

Life of a Tree 🌲

Zoologists and Mammals 🐄

Each pack contains an information sheet, books, and activities!

All packs are available for 1-month checkout with a valid library card.