Back to School Collection

Whether you’re a student, parent, or lifelong learner and explorer, gear up for the start of the school year with the Exploratorium Store’s Back-to-School collection of must-have school supplies. You’ll find top-of-the-class notebooks, pouches for pens and pencils, study guides and more!

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"The Girl With a Mind for Math" is a hardcover book with a green cover representing a chalkboard. A young Raye Montague is drawing math equations on the chalkboard.
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The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague By Julia Finley Mosca
$ 17.99
The planetary orbit is made from unfinished plywood: the planets around it are in muted colors of blue, yellow, and orange.
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ROKR Mechanical Orrery
$ 91.99
The Luminous Globe kit is put together with natural plywood. The base contains gears for the movement, and the globe is brown and white with a band in plywood for the time zones and an orbital magnifier on the left side.
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ROKR Luminous Globe 3D Wooden Model
$ 48.99
The brown telescope is displayed on its tripod.
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ROKR Monocular Telescope ST004 3D Wooden Puzzle
$ 31.99
This is a board book. The cover is black with a blue spine; on the surface is a prism with white light entering on the right into a rainbow on the left. "Let's Make a Rainbow! is written in white on top.
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Let's Make a Rainbow: Seeing the Science of Light with Optical Physics by Chris Ferrie.
$ 14.99
A triangular glass prism is refracting light waves to make a rainbow.
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Exploratorium Glass Prism
$ 19.00
This is a hardcover book with a black cover; it has a long exposure photograph of light trails created with a flashlight. The title is in grey with the i in the shape of a flashlight.
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Exploring the Science of Light: 30+ Illuminating Experiments and Colorful Projects for Kids by the Exploratorium
$ 14.95
Blue steel and black plastic suspend five metal balls.
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Newton's Cradle
$ 15.00
The microscope is 5.1 x 6.1 x 12.2 inches in dimension. It has a white body with black turning knobs, eyepiece, magnifying glass lenses, and a slide mount.
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Duo-Scope Microscope
$ 170.00
A young girl sitting at a table uses the Zoomy handheld digital microscope to look closer at a lemon. The magnified image of the lemon is on the screen of the child's laptop computer.
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Zoomy Digital Microscope
$ 71.99
"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.
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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
$ 8.99
It is a blue and beige box with an illustration of elements from the periodic table, a chemistry flask, a testable, and a Bunson burner. The box is 5" x 3.75".
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Chemistry Fluxx
$ 16.99
"The Ingeniously Daring Chemistry" book is a hardcover with a blue cover and bright green, red and yellow text; there is an image of a young girl holding a chemistry flask popping and crackling.
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The Book of Ingeniously Daring Chemistry: 24 Experiments for Young Scientists by Sean Connolly
$ 14.95
A black box with chemistry equipment in a green tray,
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Ultimate Chemistry Set
$ 50.00
This is a hardcover book with color-coded element characters corresponding to each element, such as nitrogen; a green element is used in plant fertilizers.
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Lift-the-flap Periodic Table by Alice James and Shaw Nielson
$ 14.99
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.
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Elemental Blocks
$ 40.00
Green and yellow book cover of "100 Things to Know About Science" with illustrations and facts such as an octopus with " An octopus has three hearts."
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100 Things to Know About Science by Alex Frith, Minna Lacey, Jerome Martin & Jonathan Melmoth
$ 12.99
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry is a paperback book. It is 9.1 x 6.1  inches in dimension. The cover is white, with drawings of different space-related planets, satellites, asteroids, and black holes appear on the cover in purple, yellow, red, orange, and blue-green.   
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone
$ 11.95
Blue cover with different properties of atoms depicted on the cover by different characters with a drawing of a large atom in the middle.
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See Inside Atoms and Molecules By Rosie Dickins
$ 14.99
Dark blue cover with an illustration of Marie Curie on the front holding a chemistry flask.
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Little People, Big Dreams Marie Curie by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
$ 14.99
Astronomy Fluxx
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Astronomy Fluxx
$ 16.99
This is the biodome hydroponic system filled with plants and all the accouterments, such as a nutrient tank and waste digester. The box for the product has a space scene on what it would be like to canonize the red planet.
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Mars Landing Survival Kit
$ 35.99
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 .
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ABCs of Space by Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow
$ 9.99
A young Katherine Johnson sits on a chair in front of a moon image decorated with different mathematical formulas. The paperback book is blue, with yellow text, and is 11.3" x 9.4".
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
$ 18.99