We have a wide range of STEM kits available for primary schools to use. Each kit comes with a kit list and instructions - perfect for lessons and after school clubs. We offer two weeks’ free kit loan and a further 50% discount on further loans as part of our annual membership for schools. Kits on loan should be collected from and returned to the Science Oxford Centre in Headington during office hours.
We provide suggested general risk assessments for all kit loan, available on our risk assessments page, for schools to adapt and use in addition to your own risk assessments.
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Contact our schools team with any enquiries at [email protected].
Kit Loan
In SchoolsLight and shadows
2 week kit loan for KS2
Everything needed to teach the topic of light with this class size kit loan with torches, mirrors, optical blocks kit to explore and investigate shadows. Three activity boxes.
In Schoolsmicro:bit kitloan
2 or 6 week kit loan for KS2 & KS3
micro:bit is a tiny programmable computer, designed to make learning and teaching easy and fun. It provides a more approachable method to computing than just teaching coding.
In SchoolsElectrical Experiments
2 week kit loan for KS2
Everything needed to teach the topic of electricity at KS2 – bulbs, wires, batteries, buzzers, motors and even propellers!
In SchoolsCircuit Detectives
2 week kit loan for KS2
Pupils must work out where the fault is in eight different circuits using a test kit containing wire, batteries and bulbs.
In SchoolsDataloggers
2 week kit loan for KS1 or KS2
Dataloggers are a great cross-curricular resource – they can record temperature, light and sound levels and the information can be read directly off the screen, converted into pictograms or displayed as a graph over time.
In SchoolsK’Nex Construction
2 week kit loan for KS2
A versatile and colourful construction kit of rods and connectors which can be used for a wide variety of engineering challenges as pupils can create towers, bridges, cranes, cars and fairground rides.
In SchoolsMarble Mazes
2 week kit loan for KS2
Children will be challenged to create a route for a marble to travel through as slowly as possible without stopping, using limited materials. Throughout the activity, discussion can encourage children to consider scientific principles such as the effect of gravity causing the marble to roll and the effect of friction on its movement.
In SchoolsPaper Engineering
2 week kit loan for KS2
Challenge your students to build something amazing with our paper engineering kit, which includes rolling sticks, super strong hole punches, tape and plenty of nuts and bolts. All you need to provide is A4 scrap paper and some inspiration…
In SchoolsSlime
2 week kit loan for FS & KS1
Students can explore the properties of an unusual material by making their own slime – bouncy, squeezable, stretchy and gooey. Is it a solid or a liquid?
In SchoolsBubbles
2 week kit loan for KS1
There’s a lot of fascinating science that you can explore with bubbles. This kit includes bubble solution and 3D shapes to help create unusual bubbles.
In SchoolsScience Club in a box
6 week kit loan for KS2
Science Club in a Box enables you to run a weekly science club. The kit includes six activities with all the instructions and equipment required.