Top Four Things to Consider When Building your Makerspace
Many educators have set up their makerspace for the year. Every school year, I grow excited about what the new year will hold. I also create big plans for [...]
Engage Your Students with STEM Sports®
Kinesthetic learning is a hands-on approach to teaching that uses movement as its primary impetus. At STEM Supplies, learning through physical exploration is encouraged. We recognize that STEM learning [...]
3 Free-Build Engineering Products in Every Price-Range
Encourage student creativity, spatial awareness, and hand-eye coordination by adding free-build engineering products to your classroom or STEM program. Allowing students to get hands-on with building also helps promote STEM careers, like engineering. Here are a few of our favorite building and [...]
How to Create a Mobile Cart Makerspace
Mobile makerspaces, such as the Maker Bus or the Mobile STEM Scout Lab, have become increasingly popular over the past couple of years. These unique spaces allow students to [...]
How Your Librarian Can Help Integrate STEM
I am starting at a new school this year. That means I have a whole new group of teachers to convince that I can help them in their classrooms. [...]
3 Free Digital Makerspace Planning Tools
I love everything about makerspaces. What’s not to love about all the problem-solving skills, “Ah ha!” moments, displays of teamwork, and real-world applications of STEM ideas in one space? [...]
How to Make DIY LED Name Tags
I am always looking for fun activities for students that involve STEAM principles and encourage students to come into the library. Last school year, I attended the Texas Librarian [...]
Using Recycled Cardboard Boxes to Teach Engineering
Boxes are one of those things that you always have a ton of, especially if you are addicted to online shopping like I am. I always recycle my boxes, [...]
How To: Make Any Space a Makerspace
A makerspace is any venue that promotes creativity, design-thinking, and tinkering. In a school, a makerspace can live on a cart, in a closet, in the corner of a [...]
Full STEAM Ahead: Combining the Arts and STEM
There’s a lot of debate about STEM verses STEAM. In conversations I’ve had with educators, they wonder which is more relevant and how they should approach the arts portion. [...]
