Homeschool Co-ops and Microschools
Hands-on STEM builds for homeschool co-ops and microschools, Pre-K–8. Every Spark comes in a Small Group Pack of 10, sized for a mixed-age room: each learner builds with a picture guide and takes their own bag home. The adult leading gets a step-by-step guide, coaching video and slides, free with an educator account. Themed sets bundle three Sparks.
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Art Machine Small Group Pack
Art Machines are kinetic sculptures designed and built to move. Learners connect levers and fulcra into a machine that stretches out and pulls...
$59.50
Blendie Small Group Pack
Learners build a spinning top, test which designs spin best, then color it so red, yellow, and blue blur into brand-new colors as it spins. Ev...
$69.50
Crankie Contraption Small Group Pack
Learners build a hand-turned cardboard theater and illustrate a story that scrolls across its screen like a movie. Crankies come from a long t...
$69.50
Drawbot Small Group Pack
Learners build a small foam machine with marker legs that vibrates across paper and makes its own art. Then they rearrange the parts to change...
$69.50
Electric Vehicle Small Group Pack
Learners wire a motor and gear into a working electric car and watch it drive. Swapping two wires reverses the polarity and sends it backward....
$69.50
Eyelusions Small Group Pack
Learners build a motorized spinner and draw two half-pictures that merge into one image when it spins. It is a modern take on the thaumatrope,...
$69.50
Flying Machine Small Group Pack
Learners build a rubber-band-powered flyer, draw and cut their own symmetrical wings, and launch it again and again to see how each design fli...
$59.50
Hypnotizers Small Group Pack
Learners build a wind-up machine that draws hypnotic spirals by itself. They choose the colors and placement, and stored spring energy does th...
$69.50
Linkages Small Group Pack
Learners connect cardboard levers and pivots into moving mechanisms, then hide them inside creatures and characters, like animals that dance a...
$69.50
Mazes Small Group Pack
Learners design a ramp path so a ball zigs, zags, and zooms into a hoop, then connect their maze to a partner's to build one long run. It is a...
$69.50
Monster Claw Small Group Pack
Learners build a cardboard claw and power it with air, using pneumatics, so pushing one piston opens and closes the claw at the other end. It ...
$69.50
Monster Mouth Small Group Pack
Learners design their own monster and give it a pneumatic, air-powered mouth that opens and closes as they push and pull. Character design, st...
$59.50
Scene Machines Small Group Pack
Learners build an automaton, a hand-cranked machine where turning a handle brings a scene to life. They invent the characters, art, and story,...
$59.50
Screen Machines Small Group Pack
Learners build a cardboard screen with wooden scroll handles, write and illustrate a story on a paper strip, and crank it to play like a tiny ...
$59.50
Straw Structure Small Group Pack
Learners connect jumbo paper straws into shapes, then into towering 3D structures as tall as they are, then team up to reach the ceiling. It t...
$69.50
Strawbot Small Group Pack
Learners build a straw robot with a motor and an off-center weight and watch it shake and skitter across the table. Then they turn it into a S...
$69.50
Wind-Up Vehicle Small Group Pack
Learners build a car powered by a wind-up spring, then take it apart and invent a vehicle all their own. There are no batteries, no wiring, an...
$59.50