Instructional Kit Program

Instructional Materials (COSER 521)

Membership in the Instructional Materials program (COSER 521) provides access to all hands-on and standards-aligned classroom curriculum resources for learning experiences in the elementary (grades k-5 – COSER 521.001) and middle level (grades 6-8 – COSER 521.002) classrooms.  Over one-hundred kit titles can be ordered online and are delivered to your school.  Kits are supported with all resources needed to use the curriculum in the classroom with up to thirty students, along with necessary teacher training and support.  Contact Amy Windus for assistance:  amy_windus@caboces.org or 716-376-8285.

 

Kit titles for grades K-5 (COSER 521.001):

Advancing STEM is a complete curriculum that aligns with all 2016 K-5 NYS Science Learning Standards.  The curriculum was written by over forty educators from over twenty school districts in the Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES and Erie 2 Chautauqua BOCES regions.  All curriculum materials can be reviewed at www.advancingSTEM.com.  Teachers in this service have access to Engineering is Elementary kits, a curriculum developed by the Boston Museum of Science that focuses on engineering and science.

Our Legacy Kit titles (aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards), including Health Kit titles, are also available.

The Star Lab may also be reserved through this service.

 

Pre K (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Science Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
• • Ron’s Habitat Adventure
  • Ron’s Ramp Adventure

Kindergarten (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Advancing STEM Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Eyes on the Sky:  Investigating Weather Patterns
  • It’s a Matter of Pushing Or Pulling: How Objects Move
  • One Under The Sun:  Plant and Animal Interactions with the Sun and Their Environment
  • Spot the Differences: Changes To the Environments
• Engineering is Elementary Kit Titles:
  • Catching the Wind:  Designing Windmills
  • Thinking Inside the Box:  Designing Plant Packages
  • To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges
• Legacy Kit Titles – Aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Classroom Plants
  • Insects
  • Shapes, Forms, and Colors
  • Sunshine and Shadows
  • Waterplay
• Health Kit Title:
  • My Body

 

Grade 1 (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Advancing STEM Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • It’s Just a Phase:  Patterns In the Sky
  • Lend Me Your Hears:  Discovering Sound Properties
  • Traits and Behaviors:  Ants and Plants
  • Watt’s So Bright:  Discovering Light Properties
• Engineering is Elementary Kit Titles:
  • Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes
  • Listen Up:  Designing Lighting Systems
  • Sounds Like Fun: Seeing Animal Sounds
• Legacy Kit Titles – Aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • From Seed to Plant, Egg to Adult
  • Habitats
  • Magnets
  • Properties
  • Rocks, Fossils, and Dinosaurs
• Health Kit Title:
  • My Body Works Together

 

Grade 2 (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Advancing STEM Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • A Birdseye View Over Land And Water:  Models, Maps, and Patterns
  • Lean On Me:  How Plants and Animals Depend On Each Other
  • Matter Matters:  Properties of Matter
  • Weathering the Change:  Erosion Processes
• Engineering is Elementary Kit Titles:
  • The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators
  • A Stick In the Mud:  Evaluating a Landscape
  • A Sticky Situation: Designing Walls
• Legacy Kit Titles – Aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Grade 2 Assessment
  • Measuring
  • Physical Science
  • Plants and Animals
  • Weather
• Health Kit Title:
  • Body Senses

 

Grade 3 (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Advancing STEM Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Forced to Stick With It:  Motion and Magnetism
  • Hand-Me-Down Genes:  Life Cycles and Traits of Butterflies
  • I Will Survive:  Organisms Surviving in Different Environments
  • Weather Around the World:  Data Trends, Water Cycle, and Hazards
• Engineering is Elementary Kit Titles:
  • The Attraction is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems
  • Marvelous Machines:  Making Work Easier
  • A Slick Solution: Cleaning an Oil Spill
• Legacy Kit Titles – Aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Buoyancy
  • Energy Forms and Interactions
  • Grade 3 Assessment
  • Life Cycles and Traits of Frogs
  • Schoolyard Studies
• Health Kit Title:
  • Nutrition and Digestion

 

Grade 4 (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Advancing STEM Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Centuries of Change:  Processes That Shape the Earth
  • Full of Potential:  The Effects of Energy
  • Makin’ Waves:  Patterns of Waves and Information Transfer
  • Parts of a Whole:  Internal and External Plant and Animal Structures
• Engineering is Elementary Kit Titles:
  • An Alarming Idea: Designing Alarm Circuits
  • No Bones About It: Designing Knee Braces
  • Now You’re Cooking: Designing Solar Ovens
  • Solid As a Rock: Replicating An Artifact
• Legacy Kit Titles – Aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Density
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Powders and Crystals
  • Grade 4 Assessment
  • Simple Machines
• Health Kit Title:
  • Move Your Body

 

Grade 5 (Click on any title to reserve for your classroom)

• Advancing STEM Kit Titles – Aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Titles coming in 2020
• Engineering is Elementary Kit Titles:
  • A Long Way Down:  Designing Parachutes
  • Taking the Plunge:  Designing Submersibles
  • Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters
  • A Work In Progress:  Improving a Play Dough Process
• Legacy Kit Titles – Aligned to 1997 NYS Science Learning Standards:
  • Ecosystem (Pond Life)
  • Electromagnetism
  • Incubation and Embryology
  • Intermediate Level Measurement
  • Looking At Liquids
  • Meet the Creatures
  • Nature’s Forces and Simple Machines
  • Our Brain and Its Systems
  • Rocketry
  • Rocks, Minerals, and Landforms
  • Solar System
  • Terrariums and Vivariums
• Health Kit Title:
  • Our Lungs, Heart, and Health
  • Our Brain and Its Systems

Kit titles for grades 6-8 (COSER 521.002):

Lab-Aids is a research based kit curriculum designed specifically for grades 6-8 by Lab-Aids, Inc and aligned to 2016 NYS Science Learning Standards.  Click on any title to reserve for your classroom.

• Life Science Kit Titles:
  • Body Systems
  • Evolution
  • Ecology
  • From Cells to Organisms
  • Reproduction
• Earth Science Kit Titles:
  • Earth’s Resources
  • Geological Processes
  • Land, Water, and Human Interactions
  • Solar System and Beyond
  • Weather and Climate
• Physical Science Kit Titles:
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Energy
  • Fields and Interactions
  • Force and Motion
  • Waves

 

Engineering Everywhere, also produced by the Boston Museum of Science, is an engineering curriculum for middle-school students.  Each unit is composed of several activities that last for about an hour each.  All materials are shipped with each kit.

• Don’t Runoff:  Engineering an Urban Landscape
• Food for Thought:  Engineering Ice Cream
• Go Fish:  Engineering Prosthetic Tails
• Growing Up:  Engineering Vertical Farms
• Here Comes the Sun:  Engineering Insulated Homes
• It’s About Time:  Engineering Timers
• It’s in the Bag:  Engineering Bioinspired Gear
• Outbreak Alert!:  Engineering a Pandemic Response
• Plants to Plastic:  Engineering Bioplastics
• Put a Lid On It:  Engineering Safety Helmets

 

Program Staff

Amy Windus, Program  Manager

Clay Nolan, STEM Coordinator

Leigh Leyva, Keyboard Specialist

Tiffany Turner, Educational Material Aide

Dale Cummings, Educational Material Aide

Carleigh Spiller, Educational Material Aide