Art Exploration
The Art Exploration Kits contain art supplies, replica artifacts, and creative prompts to inspire your patrons’ learning and art curiosity. Each kit offers the opportunity
STEAM
Kits that relate to broad fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)
The benefits of STEAM learning include:
- Exposes students to the creative process
- Offers meaningful collaboration
- Increases critical thinking
- Provides a unique way to problem-solve
Curiosity Cabinet
An interactive pop-up exhibit designed to intrigue. Intriguing, funny, perplexing, inspiring, novel, surprising, revealing, sometimes silly… this is our modern-day traveling version of the traditional
Music (Ukuleles)
Music programs are a great way to introduce low-cost STEAM programs into your library. Many libraries engage their communities through unorthodox, hands-on programming that teaches
Kitchen Math: Hot Chocolate
This kit was designed for small and rural libraries who want to host a fun and educational math program without the expense of buying equipment
Book Folding
The book folding program is a great way to introduce a low-cost STEAM program into your library. Repeated use of a skill leads to mastery
Archaeology
In partnership with the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, the Colorado State Library has fossil and archaeology
Solar Science
The Solar Science Kits were created by STARNet and distributed to libraries in anticipation of the Solar Eclipses of 2023 and 2024 (view the guide