Really Good Stuff STEM-tivity Class Kits

The Really Good Stuff website offers a wide variety of activities and ideas that can be used in classroom lessons. This website is a fabulous tool when searching for fun new ways to teach old ideas. Not only do they have products for sale, the website also offers articles with tips like " 12 ways to get cheap books for the classroom" and other helpful resources as well. There is also an option to subscribe to their monthly "teachers box" where each month you receive a box full of products and activities aimed at enhancing lessons to engage the entire class. While navigating the website, I came across these STEM-tivity kits that I thought looked pretty cool. These kits are geared toward grades K-3, but they have kits for all grade levels. With this activity, you receive 5 different kits that tie into the K-3 curriculum. Penguin cool down is an activity aimed towards a better understanding of the warming of the Earth. Plant Pals is an activity designed to explain the ways in which seeds travel. Push and pull piggies reinforces students knowledge of push and pull. Silly Sounds teaches vibrations of sound and Building Materials Matter teaches the different characteristics of matter. Each kit comes with enough material to divide up the classroom into four cooperative groups to complete three highly engaging engineering challenges. These kits were also reviewed and approved by certified STEM instructional coaches and align with the NGSS. These kits are everything you need to conduct fun, engaging lessons that students are sure to have fun with. The only downside to these kits are the price tag. For these 5 kits the price is $160, and the materials are not reusable in most kits. If you work in a district where they will provide things like this to you then you are in luck, otherwise these kits might be a bit too pricey for a teacher. However if you can manage to get these kits in the classroom, they would serve as an incredible tool to aid in your lessons and to engage students even further into learning.