Engineering & Architecture
At Kurtz Bros, we have engineering kits for students for sale at all price ranges, so you can find durable, educational resources without breaking the bank.
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The Wonderboard® STEAM Architect Magnet Set offers hours of creative play and engages children in hands-on learning across multiple STEAM fields. The set includes 150 architectural element magnet pieces and a 9" x 12" double-sided magnetic dry erase board.
Miniland's Mecaniko Activity Set is the perfect introduction to hands-on engineering for young minds. This set includes durable plastic components such as spanners, screws, pulleys, and nuts, allowing children to build real-world objects.
Structure Sticks are a fun and innovative building toy that takes traditional craft sticks to the next level. This set includes 400 colorful sticks, each measuring 4 3/8" x 3/8", designed with notches, slots, and hexagonal keyholes for versatile construction options.
STEM Labs for Middle School is an engaging resource designed to increase STEM proficiency with over 50 hands-on lab activities. Perfect for students in grades 5–8, this book helps cultivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by encouraging critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork.
The Engineering & Design Castle Building Set is a 123-piece STEM toy that promotes creative learning through hands-on play. This set features easy-to-handle pieces for constructing castles, turrets, bridges, and courtyards.
The Water Pump is a durable, high-quality toy designed to enhance sensory water play for children. Measuring 3.9”L x 2.4”W x 14.2”H, this sturdy pump supports fine motor skills, problem-solving, and STEM learning.
The KEVA® Structures Plank Set offers an exciting and creative way for children ages 5 and up to build complex architectural structures without the need for glue or connectors.
The Structures Discovery Kit is an engaging educational tool designed to teach students about forces and the stability of structures like towers and bridges. The kit includes a detailed teacher activity guide with experiments that demonstrate the concepts of strength, balance, and structural integrity.
The Science Lab set is a hands-on STEM learning kit designed for students ages 10 and up, perfect for 1-4 participants. It introduces the basic concepts of magnetic polarities, guiding users through controlled magnetic reactions and motion.
The Polydron Bridges Class Set is a fantastic hands-on STEM learning tool for aspiring engineers and designers. It provides everything needed to construct and explore eight different bridge types, including suspension, truss, cantilever, drawbridge, and more.
The Polydron STEM Set is a comprehensive 486-piece set designed to introduce children to the principles of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). It includes a variety of pieces and 22 work cards that cover three stages: Principles, Projects, and Advanced Projects.
The Geometry Lab set is an engaging 284-piece STEM kit designed for elementary school students to explore 2D and 3D geometric shapes. It includes magnetic rods, steel spheres, plastic panels, and activity cards to help children experiment, build, and transform geometric structures.
The Polydron Engineering Class Set offers a hands-on way to explore engineering and design with 250 pieces. This set includes gears with simple ratios (8, 16, and 24 teeth) and various other components, allowing students to build up to 12 different models, such as mechanical systems and machines.
Our Engineering Kits for Kids
With an engineering kit, you can show kids the real-world effects of physics concepts. While they create, students see the effects of structural integrity and learn what works and what doesn't through hands-on building experiences. Force, mass and momentum become more tangible and easier to understand.Our engineering kits for kids for sale contain a wide range of parts, such as planks, struts and trusses, that create main structures. These parts are typically made of wood or plastic. They might stick together on their own, but many kits incorporate connectors, including hinges, nuts, pulleys, wheels and screws that enable more functional creations, such as drawbridges, catapults, vehicles, levels and gear trains. That means students get to see their creations come to life.
We have engineering kits with:
- Polydron parts. These rugged plastic components include loads of geometric shapes that snap together and combine with strings, pulleys and gears to create endless machines and structures.
- Wooden planks and components. Wooden sets can be good for simple stacking activities and more complex creations.
- Plastic pieces. We carry many sets with plastic parts, from basic planks and trusses to axles, cranks and other connectors.
Activities That Go With Our Engineering Kits
Most of these kits come with activity guides or cards to get kids started. One popular project involves a classic bridge-building competition. Split students into groups and have them work together to build a bridge. Then, assuming the kit you've bought can handle it, place weights on the bridge to see how much it can support before falling apart. The bridge that holds the most weight wins!Other activities include building catapults for target practice or recreating famous buildings. Of course, free building is an excellent way to let creativity loose and encourage innovative building. Kids are often entertained for hours when left to their own devices.
Outside of simple fun and familiarity with engineering principles, our kits can also help kids develop their critical thinking, creative and collaborative skills.
Build Students' Engineering Skills With Kits From Kurtz Bros
At Kurtz Bros, we know how important it is to support your young students in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM). That's why we're committed to offering a wide selection of student engineering kits at affordable prices. Get your little engineers on the path to success with exciting, hands-on building opportunities.Browse our popular and hard-to-find items and order what you need today. If you have questions, reach out to a knowledgeable representative.