The 2024-2025 school year is a pilot year for our new Lending Library. School in the NEWESD 101 region have access to borrow equipment such as microscopes and various computer science equipment.
Items can be checked out on a first come-first served basis and are limited to availability. Once you submit an request at the form below, we will reach out to you to confirm dates and availability.
If there is equipment that you don't see, but would like us to consider offering, please reach out to [email protected].
LENDING LIBRARY CHECK-OUT FORM
*Some of the items may need to have training prior to checking them out.
Lab equipment available
- Compound microscope (courtesy of the Hagan Foundation grant)
- Dissecting microscope (courtesy of the Hagan Foundation grant)
- Vermier Lab Pro (and probes)
Computer science equipment available
- Ozobot Bits*
- Ozobot Evo*
- Lego EV3*
- micro:bits
- 3D printer pen (courtesy of the Hagan Foundation grant)
- 3D printer (courtesy of the Hagan Foundation grant)
- Little Bits Student STEM set
- Little Bits Gadgets & Gizmos set
- MakeyMakey
- SparkFun
- CanaKit
Other available equipment/materials
- K'Nex sets
- BBS Pre-K Science Kit: Patterns All Around
(courtesy of the Washington State LASER grant)
In this unit, students use assorted everyday objects to build on their intuitive sense of patterns. Students sort a collection of natural shells, (noting similarities, differences, and repeating patterns), investigate patterns outdoors, create colorful patterns with geometric shapes, discover patterns in everyday activities, and explore patterns that repeat in longer cycles of time (e.g. birthdays, seasonal cycles, life cycles). Students explore patterns in the night and daytime skies, consider apparent changes in the shape of the moon, and design a drip-drop "star" map with far too many stars in the "sky" to count.
- BBS Pre-K Science Kit: Discovering Animals
(courtesy of the Washington State LASER grant)
Live snails and worms encourage students to observe carefully, use a hand lens, draw what they see, mimic movement, compare parents and offspring, and build on their intuitive ideas about the needs of animals. Sorting models provides students with multiple opportunities to compare themselves to the model animals and to live animals in the classroom.