The STEM Ambassador Hub North East has a selection of resources available for state funded schools and STEM Ambassadors in the region to borrow and use with students or staff to promote STEM. 

We have added to our kit range as part of our "Kit Club" scheme. Take a look at these exciting new kits that can help enhance and inspire STEM education wthin schools: 

• Advanced Magnification (Key Stage 3/4) 
• Cars and Ramps (Key Stage 1/2/3)
• Electricity (Key Stage 1/2/3)  
• General Forces (Key Stage 1/2) 
• Healthy Eating (Key Stage 1/2) 
• Heart (Key Stage 1/2/3/4) 
• Magnification (Key Stage 1/2) 
• Micro-organisms (Key Stage 1/2/3) 
• Scientist Puppets (Key Stage 1/2) 
• Skeleton (Key Stage 1/2/3/4)
• Smart Materials (Key Stage 3/4/5) 
• Sound (Key Stage 1/2/3) 
• Torso (Key Stage 1/2/3/4) 
• Water Cycle (Key Stage 2/3) 
• Water investigations (Key Stage 2/3) 

We also still have our range of existing kits and resources listed below:

• Kid K’Nex (set 78698). A building set suitable for children aged 3-5 years
• K’Nex maker Kit large (set 78497). A Building set for children aged 6+
• K’Nex Rollercoaster (set 77078). Rollercoaster building kit suitable for children aged 8+
• Lego WeDo 2.0. Basic building and programming for children aged 7+
• Lego Mindstorms EV3 Core. Building and robotics for children aged 10+
• Ozobot Bit. Basic programming for primary children using colour
• Tac Tic Boxes. A large construction set for children aged 5+
• Engineering in a Box. A set of boxes to improve general employability skills
• In the Zone. General biology box related to breathing, respiration, heart and lungs
• Spacecraft Materials Kit

To order a kit please contact the STEM team  at resources@rtcnorth.co.uk

The kits are availale to hire for a max of 6 weeks, and each school/person can hire 2 kits per school. The kits are by collection only from our Sunderland Office. Collection and returns are currently available on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9am-5pm.

We have also created a range of experiment cards available to download bellow that pupils and teachers can access, from bouncing custard balls, cornflour slime, fake snow, vitamin c rockets, lollipop harmonicas and so much more, so lets get creative and discover the love of STEM!

• Air Zookas
• Balloon Kebabs
• Balloon Hovercraft
• Balloon Powered Car
• Bathbombs
• Bouncing Custard Balls
• Bubble Art
• Cartesian Driver
• Catapult
• Cork Raft
• Cornflour Slime
• Dancing Raisins
• Duck Cup
• Egg box challenge
• Fake Snow
• Flubber
• Go Fish
• Homemade volcano
• Homemade Ice Cream
• Homemade Lemonade
• How Does it Work?
• Jelly and Oil
• Lava Lamps
• Lollipop harmonica
• Marble Run
• Mentos and Coke
• Newspaper Tower
• Paper Helicopter
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Red Cabbage Indicator
• Slinky Sounds
• Spaghetti Towers
• Stop Animation
• Straw through a potato challenge
• Sun Dial
• Traffic Lights
• Vitamin C Rockets
• Vortex
• Whiry Tubes
• Wind Turbine
• Yeast Balloon