STEM in Motion

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Registration for the 2026-2027 school year is open now! Fill out our Google Form below to sign up.

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STEM in Motion Curriculum Kits

Our curriculum kits come supplied with our state-of-the-art equipment, lesson videos, virtual activities with our SIM team, career connection resources, and more. Each kit can be checked out for free by any school or educational group for a three-week period. Registration for the 2026-2027 school year is open now.

For more information on STEM In Motion Kits, contact:

Sarah Broadbent
[email protected]

How Does It Work?

Step 1: Explore

We have fun curriculum choices based on grade level and subject – select the kit that’s right for your students. Each kit includes state-of-the-art equipment, video lessons, extension activities, career connections, and more! Each of our kits is aligned with Utah Core Standards, and can be used for classes of up to 30, with students working in pairs or small groups. Since check-out periods are two weeks, kits can be used in as many classrooms as you would like. You can explore our kits below.

Step 2: Register

Fill out our Kit Scheduling Form to apply to receive a kit. We have 16 available kits, and each kit is available for two weeks at a time. Each school can receive one delivery per year. You will provide details on your school, grade level, and which checkout periods would be best for you to receive your kit. We will work with schools to accommodate scheduling preferences, but cannot guarantee availability for any specific checkout period.

Step 3: Schedule

A member of the STEM in Motion team will reach out to schedule and confirm your kit. Once your delivery has been scheduled, you will be asked to confirm about six months before you receive your kit, and then receive another reminder about a week before your delivery.

Step 4: Receive Your Kit

On your scheduled delivery date, a member of the STEM in Motion team will bring the kit directly to you - no pickup necessary! We will leave the kit with your front office staff, stocked and ready for your students.

Step 5: Have Fun!

Enjoy watching your students having fun learning about STEM. Share the excitement with #STEMinMotion - follow us on Twitter and Youtube.

Step 6: Pack It Up!

At the end of your kit checkout period, pack everything back into the kit and leave it with your front office. A member of the STEM in Motion team will come and collect it.

Explore Our SIM Curriculum Kit Offerings

We offer 16 unique curriculum exploring various topics, from physics to coding to robotics and more! Explore our curriculum kit offerings below.

You can request kits here: STEM in Motion Curriculum Kits Scheduling Form (Google Form).

All our programs are aligned with Core Standards and our own curriculum standards (PDF).

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Mission to Mars

Grades: 4 - 8

Mission to Mars is designed for grades 4th-8th, and engages students in solving some of the major challenges that face a possible Mars colony, including radiation, water, oxygen, temperature, energy, food, and debris. They’ll choose a landing site and design a colony to meet all of the challenges, while still staying within cost and weight restrictions.

This kit includes:

6 Sets of Mars Colony Location Mats
6 Sets of Mars Colony Building Materials
3 Scales
Colony Design Worksheets
Mission to Mars Curriculim Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

The kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this kit includes an introduction, and walks students through designing their own Mars Colony in groups of 3-5. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Mission to Mars (PDF).

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Robotics & Coding

Grades: 2 - 8

Robotics & Coding is a flexible kit for students 2nd-8th grade. Throughout the program students will learn the principles of robotics while solving challenges that require the use of sensors, motors, lights and more.

This kit includes:

15 Robots
Robot Charging Cases
6 Posters
Sphero Robotics Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

The kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lessons for this kit include an introductory video, a video of challenges for students 2nd-6th grade, a video of challenges 6th-8th grade, and a conclusion video. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how it works? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Sphero Robotics (PDF).

Note: This kit is transitioning to a new robot model. The hardware you receive depends on your scheduled dates, but all taught concepts and standards remain exactly the same.

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Renewable Energy

Grades: 4 - 8

This engaging program focuses on the differences between renewable and non-renewable energy, and a discussion of political, environmental and economical pros and cons of wind energy, solar energy and coal energy. It is designed for 4th to 8th grade students. Student groups are challenged to design, make, and test their own wind turbine blades to generate as high a voltage as they can.

This kit includes:

1 Vernier KidWind Turbine Kit
1 Box Fan
2 Voltmeters
3 Hot Glue Guns
Hot Glue Sticks
Scissors
Rulers
Alligator Clips
Heavy Cardboard (for turbine blades)
Dowels
Letter Template
Renewable Energy Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

The kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lessons for this kit include an introductory video and a challenge for students to design turbine blades that generate 3+ volts of electricity. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Renewable Energy (PDF).

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Discovering Genetics

Grades: 3 - 7

Discovering Genetics is designed to teach the basics of genotypes, phenotypes, alleles, and inheritance. Students will work independently and collaboratively to observe and calculate frequency of real-life traits, as well as explore "alien" traits, phenotypes, and observe differences between them.

This kit includes:

30 Individual Basic Traits Sheet
6 Group Basic Traits Sheet
30 PTC Test Strips
1 Classroom Traits Chart
1 Alien Phenotypes Chart
30 Alien Inheritance Tables
30 Dry Erase Markers
Paper
Markers
60 Coins
Class Set of Aliens Models with Inherited Traits Accessories
Discovering Genetics Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Discovering Genetics (PDF).

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Beginning Circuits

Grades: 1 - 3

Beginning Circuits is for grades 1-3 and teaches students about electronics, light, sound, and motion with snap together circuits. Build cars, flashlights, alarms and more.

This kit includes:

15 Snap-Together Circuit Kits
Extra Rechargeable Batteries
Battery Charger
Power Tiles Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

This kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this kit includes an introduction, and a series of challenges for students to complete using their circuit kits. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit.

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Colorado River

Grades: 3 - 5

Colorado River is designed to teach students about water conservation, invasive species, and Utah ecosystems. Students will build ecosystems based on Utah organisms, and compare the Colorado River to other rivers in Utah, explore Ecology Careers, and determine the cause of the shrinking Pikeminnow Population.

This kit includes:

EcoHeroes Careers Activity
How the Colorado Stacks Up Activity
Setting Up a Food Chain Activity
Pikeminnow Population Activity
Colorado River - 3rd-5th Grade (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

This kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this kit includes an introduction, and walks students through building ecosystems, identifying river organisms, and testing river water to determine the cause of a failing river ecosystem. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Colorado River (PDF).

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Utah Lake

Grades: 5 - 7

Utah Lake is designed to teach students about water conservation, invasive species, and Utah ecosystems. Students will build ecosystems based on Utah organisms, examine the unique species of the Utah Lake ecosystem, examine hydrographs of Utah Lakes and Rivers, and explore the reasons behind the endangerment of the June Sucker fish.

This kit includes:

EcoHeroes Careers Activity
How Geography Creates Species Activity
Setting Up a Food Chain Activity
Know the Flow Activity
Will I Get Eaten? Activity
Utah Lake - 5th-7th Grade (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

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Great Salt Lake

Grades: 4 - 6

Great Salt Lake is designed to teach students about water conservation, invasive species, and Utah ecosystems. Students will build ecosystems based on Utah organisms, examine the habits of the pelicans that live near the Great Salt Lake, and determine a safe salinity for brine shrimp.

This kit includes:

EcoHeroes Careers Activity
Beneficial Biomass Activity
Grocery Run Activity
Safe Salinity Activity
Setting Up a Food Chain Activity
Great Salt Lake - 4th-6th Grade (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

The students enjoyed the kit so much... I would love for you to see their faces light up with excitement! Thank you so much for letting us use the kit!
-Shauntae

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Physics and Forces

Grades: 1 - 3

Physics & Forces is designed for students grades K – 3rd. In this program, students will explore physics concepts like weight, motion, gravity, speed, and friction while conducting tests with cars and ramps.

This kit includes:

3 Ramps with Stands
6 Toy Cars
Friction Tiles
Physics and Forces Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

This kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this kit includes an introduction and a set of experiments for students to conduct regarding friction and gravity. Additional activity suggestions are included.

Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Physics and Forces (PDF).

Beebots

Grades: K - 3

Beebots is for grades K-3 and is a robotics program that teaches students the fundamentals of programming a robot. BeeBot will help young children learn directions, estimation, and sequencing.

This kit includes:

15 BeeBots
15 Charging Cables
Power Strip
BeeBot Mazes
Bee-Bots Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities)
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

This kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week check-out period. The video lesson for this kit includes an introduction and a series of challenges for students to complete using their BeeBots. Additional activity suggestions are included.

Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Bee-Bots (PDF).

Utah's Geology

Grades: 6 - 8

Utah's Geology is a hands-on curriculum designed for students to be able to identify rocks and minerals by their traits. Students will learn about the rock cycle, composition of Earth's crust, as well as identify patterns of rock distribution in Utah.

This kit includes:

Rock & Mineral Samples
Mineral Traits Chart
Rock Traits Chart
Rock Specimen Map
Mineral Traits Key
Rock Traits Key
Utah: A Geological History Map
6 Streak Test Kits
Moh's Hardness Scale
6 Magnets
6 Magnifying Glasses
Utah's Geology (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Utah's Geology (PDF).

Hands on Coding

Grades: 1 - 6

This program is for grades 1-6 and is a screen-free coding class designed to teach kids basic programming skills. Students will take turns being the ‘programmer’ and the ‘robot’ and acting their code out to test its effectiveness.

This kit includes:

15 Sets Hands-On Coding Tiles
Dry Erase Markers
Hands on Coding Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive Resources)

The kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this activity includes an introduction, and a series of coding challenges for students to complete in pairs or teams using the Hands-On Coding Blocks. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Hands-On Coding (PDF).

Probability & Game Design

Grades: 4 - 8

Probability and Game Design is for grades 4th-8th and explores probability, variance, conditional probability and more. Students learn how probability effects games, and how it can make games more challenging and engaging. Then, they’ll use what they’ve learned to create their own board games.

This kit includes:

6 Dry Erase Game Mats
6 Sets Wet Erase Markers
6 Sets Game Tokens
Tub of Polyhedral Dice
Dry Erase Cards
Cleaning Wipes
Probability & Game Design (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

The kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this kit includes an introduction, and a challenge for students to use probability to design their own games! Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Probability and Game Design (PDF).

Senses and the Brain

Grades: 3 - 6

Understanding how our brain controls what we see, hear and feel can help us to better understand our bodies as a whole. This program is an exploration through the visual and sensory controls of the brain. We spend time going through various illusions to demonstrate how our brain can affect what we see, then delve into two activities that test memory and the ability of our eyes to adjust to altered reality goggles.

This kit includes:

15 Reality Distortion Goggles
15 Bean Bags
1 Inversion Goggles
Small Whiteboard & Marker
Senses and the Brain Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

This kit can be used for as many classrooms as you would like during the 2-week checkout period. The video lesson for this plan includes an introduction, and several experiments that students can conduct during the video lesson regarding their senses and the way their brain interprets input. Additional activity suggestions are included. Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Senses and the Brain (PDF).

The students loved interacting with this kit and learned a lot about circuits! Thanks again for this amazing opportunity!
-Angeana

Discovering Genetics

Grades: 6 - High School

This kit includes:

30 Individual Basic Traits Sheet
6 Group Basic Traits Sheet
30 PTC Test Strips
1 Classroom Traits Chart
1 Alien Phenotypes Chart
30 Alien Inheritance Tables
30 Dry Erase Markers
Paper
Markers
60 Coins
Class Set of Aliens Models with Inherited Traits Accessories
Discovering Genetics Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with video lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

Want to know more about how they work? Check out our guide on How to Use Your Kit: Discovering Genetics (PDF).

Power Tiles

Grades: 1 - 3

Power Tiles is for grades 1-3 and teaches students about electronics, light, sound, and motion with a snap together circuit kit called Power Tiles. Build cars, flashlights, alarms and more.

This kit includes:

15 Power Tiles Circuit Kits
Extra Rechargeable Batteries
Battery Charger
Power Tiles Curriculum Kit (Google Drive) with lesson plans and additional activities
USB Drive (with Google Drive resources)

Where Have We Been?

STEM in Motion Impact

students impacted since 2020

schools visited in rural Utah

students agreed STEM would be important as adults