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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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
"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
The gray iron filings are visible through the transparent sections on the top and bottom of the clear plastic container with a red lid and a blue and white label.

Magnetic Iron Filings

$ 8.95
$ 8.95
A narrowly oblong-shaped silver-colored magnet sits on top of a white background.

Cow Magnet

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
A glass hourglass with a magnetic wood base; as the magnetic black sand moves through the hourglass, it creates little porcupine-like spikes as it becomes magnetized.

Magnetic Sand Timer

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
Prime Climb

Prime Climb

$ 31.00
$ 31.00
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
The product is set up with all the different elements in the kit, such as vehicles with wheels, a helicopter, a diving bell, or a boat.

Intro to Engineering

$ 32.00
$ 32.00
8" x 8" board book illustrated book cover of the ABCs of Space Three circles with Asteroid, Binary Star, and Comet. Blue spine with science tools in white .

ABCs of Space by Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
7.1" x 7.1" board book. Illustrated baby with hands raised above the head. A coding train moves between the hands.

Baby Loves Coding! By Ruth Spiro

$ 8.99
$ 8.99
A woman is standing on the bridge, wearing the navy blue with brightly colored neon tools and Art of Tinkering logo t-shirt and holding the white canvas silked screened in black with tools Art of Tinkering tote bag.

Exploratorium Art of Tinkering Tote

$ 26.00
$ 26.00
A cream-colored tote bag with 1,878 digits of Pi in gold, creating a circle printed on the front. In the middle is the Pi symbol in black. The strap is black.

Exploratorium Pi Black & Gold Tote

$ 24.00
$ 24.00
A white tote measuring 16 1/2' x 16 1/2' with various kinds of succulents in varying shades of green pops of red from their blooms sits in a garden setting.

Exploratorium ¡Plantasticas! Tote

$ 36.00
$ 36.00
A man wearing a black and white checked shirt and pants and a black and white face mask is leaning back against a black and white checked wall.

Exploratorium Optical Illusion Masks

$ 6.50
$ 6.50
Four circular pins with half white with black text on the top with the pronouns and "Ask me about my pronoun!" The bottom half is black, with the Exploratorium in white text.

Exploratorium Pronoun Buttons

$ 2.00
$ 2.00
A young child is standing on a pier holding a telescope in her hand, looking to the left. She is wearing the black Art of Tinkering hoodie with brightly colored neon tools in pink, orange, teal, green and yellow.

Exploratorium Art of Tinkering Youth Hoodie

$ 64.00
$ 64.00
A green front cover with blue text and images.

Scientist Academy

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Packing for Mars for Kids is a hardback book with a black cover: there is a kid-sized astronaut at the bottom with different animate objects, a phone, toilet paper, toothpaste, underwear, soap, a toilet, and a duck in a hot air balloon from the stories floating all around its head.

Packing for Mars for Kids by Mary Roach

$ 16.95
$ 16.95
Colorful book cover with various science-themed illustrations on a lime green background.

Science Scribble Book

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
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
Three test tubes with white magic snow and green and pink glow powder sit within a dark blue box with a window cut out. Luminescent powders appear on the box.

Luminescent Lab Glow Science Chemistry

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
8 1/2" x 11" laminated three-panel fold-out guide on the basics of algebra.

Algebra Part 1 QuickStudy Guide

$ 8.95
$ 8.95
8 1/2" x 11" laminated three-panel fold-out guide on the basics of biology

Biology QuickStudy Guide

$ 6.95
$ 6.95
8 1/2" x 11" laminated three-panel fold-out guide on the basics of anatomy.

Anatomy QuickStudy Guide

$ 6.95
$ 6.95