Snow College STEM Kits (K-12; All Subjects)
Snow College is partnering with CUES in making its STEM resources more easily accessible to all teachers and students in the CUES region. Explore the resources below to see how you can make STEM come alive with your students through the use of the STEM Check-out Kits. These kits were provided through a grant from the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and can be used in your own classroom, or plan an Earth and Space school field trip to the Snow campus. These kits were created in collaboration with NASA and each one provides hands-on Earth and Space Science experiences with connections to science, technology, and society for your students. Contact Jon Pugmire at 435 283-7534 or
- NISE Network Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkits (https://www.nisenet.org/kits):
- Exploring Science
- Measure Up*
- Exploring Earth:
- Rising Sea (Strand 2.1)
- Land Cover (Strand 2.1)
- Temperature Map (Strand 3.1)
- Investigating Clouds (Strand 3.1)
- Early Exploration*
- Bear’s Shadow*
- Exploring the Solar System:
- Craters
- Moonquakes
- Story Blocks
- Observe the Moon
- Hide and Seek Moon
- Observe the Sun (Strand 4.4)
- Pocket Solar System (Strand 6.1)
- Stomp Rockets (Strand 4.2)
- Asteroid Mining
- Design, Build, and Test
- Mission to Space Game
- Moon Adventure Game (5 challenges)
- Exploring the Universe:
- Filtered Light
- Expanding Universe
- Space Guess Quest Game
- Mission to Space Game
- Static Electricity (Strand 3.3, 7.1)
- Nebula Spin Art
- Orbiting Objects
- Star Formation
- Accessibility and Inclusion Bundle:
- Tactile Books: Lunar Craters, Solar System, Sun, Stars, lunar surfaces.
- Everyone’s Universe
- Exploring Science
*Early Childhood
Use NISE Network Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkits, the following is available:
- Earth & Space School Field Trip
- Earth Day Activity
- Moon Landing Anniversary and the Apollo Legacy
- Camps and After-School Programs include the following themes:
- Mad About Mars
- Invent, Build and Blast Off
- The Marvelous Moon
- Solar Splendor
- Earth’s Water Systems
- Deep Space Discoveries
- Engineering
- Check out telescopes and binoculars (solar filters) so you can host a star party or look safely at the sun, moon, or other astronomical objects.
- A classroom set of Ozobots.
- Fixed planetarium experience at the college in Ephraim. More information can be found at https://www.snow.edu/planetarium.
- Graham Science Center houses 30 interactive Science displays for students to explore. At the same time, the Faculty can provide STEM demonstrations.
- NOAA Science on a Sphere Explorer: Exhibit with virtual reality (https://sos.noaa.gov/SOS_Explorer/).
- Easy-to-use touchscreen interface for maximum interactivity
- Over 140 datasets, including real-time datasets with descriptions
- Educational videos linked to specific datasets for deeper inquiry
- Tours that create a narrative through the datasets and help users make connections
- Analysis tools to easily measure, probe, and plot data from the visualizations
- Immersive, first-person experiences: walk on the Moon, pilot a submarine, or take cover from a tornado
- Stunning graphics in beautiful 4k resolution
- Dual screen
- SOSx Tour Builder allows for the addition of new datasets and the creation of tours
- Virtual Reality add-on
- 360-degree video content
- International language support