Back-to-School Collection

Gear up for the school year with creative tools and supplies from the Exploratorium Store. Whether you're hitting the books or the lab table, these picks make learning extra fun. Don’t miss out on our specially curated collection for the curious student, lifelong learner, or STEAM‑loving scholar. These inventive items make the perfect classroom companions!

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Plush frog toy in a cardboard box on a white background

Froggie Dissection Lab

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
Book cover featuring an orange background with five illustrated images of individuals related to and theories of evolution.

Evolution for Curious Kids: An Illustrated Introduction to Inheritance, Paleontology, Natural Selection and More!

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
A white microscope facing forward showing a pink image of a cell on its digital screen.

Digital Microscope with HD Imaging and LCD Display

$ 61.00
$ 61.00
A transparent cube with different colored sides.

Exploratorium Color-Mixing Cube

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
A triangular glass prism is refracting light waves to make a rainbow.

Exploratorium Glass Prism

$ 19.00
$ 19.00
Rapidly spinning silver and gold mounted disc in gimbal rings sit on a black stand.

Exploratorium Gyroscope

$ 10.99
$ 10.99
A retro-style boombox radio or cassette player shown from the front on a plain white background. The device is gray with black speaker grilles and a central cassette window graphic in teal, yellow, and black.

Boombox Pencil Case

$ 9.50
$ 9.50
A set of illustrated quote cards arranged on a white background, including designs with turtles, dogs, flamingos, honey bees, a shark, a goose, a snail, butterflies, jellyfish, and a fanned-out card reading 'Lunch for Notes: Wild Cards'.

Wild Card Lunch Box Notes

$ 8.00
$ 8.00
Metal case featuring the solar system, with the sun at the top and planets' with names names below.

Solar System Pencil Box

$ 9.50
$ 9.50
Board game box for 'Cross Math' with colorful design and math-themed graphics.

CrossMath Game

$ 26.99
$ 26.99
The game's cover is purple with transparent numbers in the background; there is a magician holding a wand on top of a cloud with the words "Proof!" in red.

Proof!

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
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Prime Climb

Prime Climb

$ 31.00
$ 31.00
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A zippered pouch with a red anatomical heart-patterned top half and a solid purple bottom half, featuring a black label that reads 'COGNITIVE SURPLUS'.

Anatomical Heart Telescoping Bag

$ 27.00
$ 27.00
A small zippered pouch with a colorful butterfly print on the upper half and a solid red felt lower half, featuring a black label that reads 'COGNITIVE SURPLUS'.

Papillon Telescoping Bag

$ 27.00
$ 27.00
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Small zip pouch with split design. Purple upper half features white stars and a constellation print with "COSMIC SURPLUS" label. Light beige lower half. Orange zipper with black and gold-toned accents. 

Star Chart Telescoping Bag

$ 27.00
$ 27.00
"The Art of Tinkering" is a hardcover book; the book title is in the shape of gear with positive and negative concentric outlines against a backdrop of other mechanical illustrations.

The Art of Tinkering by Karen Wilkinson, and Mike Petrich

$ 32.50
$ 32.50
This hardcover book is separated into eight triangular shapes outward from the middle each triangular shape has an image from nature, such as a starry sky a closeup of water on a leaf or wood grain. The name "Exploralab" is across the cover with a magnifying glass in the place of the O.

Exploralab: 150 Ways to Investigate the Amazing Science All Around You by the Exploratorium

$ 24.95
$ 24.95
There is a light blue box with a dark blue border with six drawings illustrating the chain reaction. A red glove on a spring pushes a ball into a cup, a candle sits below and burns the string that holds the cup, and the ball falls.

Exploratorium Chain Reaction Playing Cards

$ 9.95
$ 9.95
The blocks are standing in the classic periodic table form. The blocks are orange, wine red, green, and teal with element numbers, symbols, and names.

Elemental Blocks

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
"The Disappearing Spoon" is a paperback book with a black cover; there are several beakers, test tubes, and science flasks filled with yellow liquid and one blue spoon connected by a network of clear tubes.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements (Youth Edition) by Sam Kean

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
The game box has a white background with periodic spelled out in colorful elemental tiles. A section of the different colorful elements lay across the middle of the box.

Periodic: A Chemistry Game of The Elements

$ 49.99
$ 49.99
Periodic Table Textured Sticker

Periodic Table Textured Sticker

$ 4.00
$ 4.00
"The Elements" is a hardback book with a black cover with five rows of various chemicals with real-life visual examples.

The Elements by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann

$ 35.00
$ 35.00
Ethnically diverse hands showing the motions of the sign language alphabet against a light blue background.

American Sign Language Sticker

$ 4.00
$ 4.00