SmartHead Mini STEM Kits™: All 5 Hands-On Science Labs

Five hands-on science labs in one box. Your learner builds, launches, prints with sunlight and invents, all without a screen.

Four labs come with their materials and a printed guide: simple steps for the grown-up, a challenge to push further, and prompts that meet your learner where they are, ages 5–13. The fifth, the Visionary Lab™, is a printed design guide that uses whatever you already have at home.

The five labs

• Explorer Lab™: UV Bead Bracelet. String a bracelet that changes color in sunlight, and find out what invisible UV light is doing all around you.
• Explorer Lab™: Sun Print. Make a picture with sunlight on sun-sensitive paper, no camera needed.
• Builder Lab™: Balloon-Powered Car. Build a car that runs on air, then make it go farther and straighter.
• Systems Lab™: Straw Rocket Launcher. Change the angle, the nose weight and the fins, and watch how each choice changes the flight.
• Visionary Lab™: Create Your Own. An open-ended guide where your learner designs the experiment, from the question to the portfolio page.

Made for every kind of learner

Each guide offers more than one way in. An Explorer can chase the question, a Builder can rebuild the design, and a Visionary can take it somewhere new. Not sure where your learner starts? Start With the Learning Code™. It's free.

Grows with your learner

• Ages 5–7: build, observe and celebrate, with a grown-up close by.
• Ages 8–10: change one thing at a time and record what happens.
• Ages 11–13: design the test, measure the results and explain why.

These labs aren't one-and-done. Every one invites a second try, a better design and a challenge for a sibling.

Each lab is also sold on its own, along with the Builder Lab™: Helicopter Flight Kit.

Stay curious.