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Axle Pack allows you to attach wheels and gears with these precision. Available in 100 mm and 250 mm lengths.
Axle Set Collars lock a rotating axle to secure the horizontal alignment.
Axle Shaft Couplers make an extended axle without a hitch. Just use it to connect two axle shafts together.
Axle Spacers are handy when you need a little space between wheels, gears, and other elements on axles.
Pitsco Education Binostat Probability Demonstrator is a clear, concise way to convey the laws of probability. Students watch as small balls create a distribution curve in the tray as they randomly drop through a grid. The Binostat base and top grid are made of high-density polyethylene and connect easily. Comes with balls, grid pins, and a user guide.
For the medieval catapult, stored tension equals the power of projectile motion – which now equals awesome learning power! Build and use this kit to demonstrate:
Plus, students can develop math, physics, and problem-solving skills by experimenting with the catapult to reach different distances with varying weights of ammunition (pieces of clay). Going back to the Dark Ages has never been so enlightening!
Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Catapults Teacher’s Guide is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here.
Order 30 kits to build a class pack!
Pitsco Education Catapults - Getting Started Package is the perfect solution for lackluster activities in the classroom. This package provides enough materials for 30 students to build and experiment with their own rubber band-powered catapults. Students discover the effects of various load masses and different rubber bands as they also learn about tension, forces, data graphing, and other concepts.
Requires white glue, sold separately.
Chain with Links is made to work with all ratios of sprockets. The chain pack includes five feet of 0.250" steel chain and four master connecting links. TETRIX chain can easily be cut to custom lengths using the Chain Breaker Tool, sold separately.
Pitsco Education Coordinate Geometry Board invites students to plot x, y coordinates; find the slope of a line between two points; graph a line; learn various quadrant characteristics; approximate areas of geometric figures; and much, much more. This attractive, sturdy, 11" x 11" board is designed with 121 peg holes that snugly hold grooved wooden pegs. Simply insert pegs in various holes (x, y coordinates) and use the colored rubber bands to show various line segments. Holes are also available on both the x- and y-axes.
Pitsco Education Crane gives students the advantage of understanding the mechanical advantage inherent in cranes. These machines help build the world as we know it. Featuring laser-cut parts, this Crane Kit can be built easily – students quickly move on to experimenting with load, ballast, and other concepts.
Includes basswood parts, string, hardware, and a user guide. Requires a small Phillips screwdriver and white glue such as HD Bond II, sold separately.
This top-notch bike pump will stand up to years of use. It features all-metal construction and a heavy-duty rod that resists bending. Also features a mounted pressure gauge, a locking hose end, and a contoured, rubberized handle.
Pump shipped may not match picture.
Pitsco Education Discover Heat Transfer Action Pack warms students up to the cencepts of thermal conduction, insulation and other heated subjects with this National Instruments Action Pack featuring the myTemp miniSystem. Following the lesson plans, students learn to measure and gather data for heat as it moves through various materials such as aluminum and wood.
This pack provides the Pitsco myTemp miniSystem, NI LabVIEW™ Discover Heat Transfer software, detailed lesson plans with Next Generation Science and Common Core Math standard correlations, seven thermistors, electric heating plate and heat lamp, and other materials needed to complete the investigations.
A NI myDAQ is required, sold separately. Comes with PC-based installation DVD.
Pitsco Education Double Trouble Mousetrap-Powered Racer is an ultra-fast racer with two mousetraps for twice the power, speed and distance! This package includes all the components for you to assemble this speedy mousetrap vehicle.
Requires glue and needle-nose pliers, sold separately.
Pitsco Economy Rocket Pack with Engines provides enough materials to make 50 rockets. To save you money, Pitsco eliminated the boxes and reduced the amount of reusable items. Each pack includes enough gummed tape, fin material, nose cones and other materials for 50 students to build one rocket each. Fifty Pitsco Rocket Kit Books are included as well. The rocket pack with engines includes 50+ igniters and engines.
Requires a launcher, scissors, ruler, sponge, finish such as paint, and white glue, sold separately.
Important: Please note that engines and igniters will be shipped separately via ground.
Access the comprehensive Pitsco Rocket Kit Book for rocket building instructions, a short history of rockets, how to use the Pitsco LaunchGuard System, and much more! The Pitsco Rocket Kit Book is available as a digital download for free here.