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🌞 SmartHead Co.™ Summer Mini STEM Kits (6-Pack) – $55

Summer science has never been this fun! Powered by a Master Teacher, our Summer Mini STEM Kit Bundle brings six hands-on experiments that harness the magic of sunshine, color, and curiosity. Each activity is designed to wow kids and meet NGSS standards, making it perfect for families, co-ops, and microschools who want meaningful learning that feels like play.

✨ Inside Every Kit

  • NGSS-aligned micro-lessons

  • Step-by-step activity instructions

  • Hero’s Portfolio cards for ESA documentation

  • Pre-measured, ready-to-use materials

🔬 The Six Summer Experiments

 

1. 🌞 Sun Print Paper (UV Art Science)

Create art powered by the sun! Kids place leaves, keys, or stencils on special photo-sensitive paper, then watch as sunlight reveals bold blue designs.
STEM Focus: Electromagnetic radiation, light energy, chemistry of photosensitive materials.

2. ✨ UV Color-Changing Beads

Turn science into wearable art! Beads change color instantly in sunlight, helping kids see invisible UV rays at work. Make a bracelet or necklace that doubles as a personal UV detector.
STEM Focus: Ultraviolet light, absorption and reflection, materials science.

3. 🧊 Crystal Lab: Grow a Gem

Grow sparkling crystals overnight using simple chemistry. Kids twist pipe cleaners into shapes, place them in a borax solution, and wake up to dazzling “geodes.”
STEM Focus: Structure and properties of matter, crystallization, solutions and saturation.

4. 🌈 Giant Rainbow Bubbles

Make bubbles bigger, stronger, and more colorful than ever! With a special bubble concentrate and DIY wand, kids create shimmering rainbow bubbles and learn why colors swirl across every bubble film.
STEM Focus: Light refraction, surface tension, geometry of spheres.

5. 🌈 Build-a-Spectroscope

Peek into hidden rainbows! Kids assemble a simple spectroscope with diffraction film and a cardboard tube to split white light into its colorful spectrum.
STEM Focus: Wave properties, diffraction, visible light spectrum.

6. 🎨 Color-Changing Slime (Thermochromic)

The slime kids love, with a scientific twist! This gooey fun shifts color with warmth from sunlight or their hands, demonstrating polymers and heat-sensitive materials in action.
STEM Focus: States of matter, polymers, thermal energy transfer.

💡 Why Families & Groups Love It

  • Affordable bundle for homeschool co-ops, microschools, and classrooms

  • 6 wow-factor experiments that are mess-friendly and outdoor-ready

  • Builds confidence, inspires exploration, and creates portfolio-ready artifacts

  • Summer STEM powered by joy, creativity, and sunlight

📦 Perfect For

  • Families who want summer to be both magical and meaningful

  • Small groups, pods, and microschools with multiple students

  • ESA families seeking standards-aligned, artifact-producing STEM learning

🌟 SmartHead Co.™ | Academy of Curiosity & Wonder
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