WOW! on Wheels
WOW! on Wheels is a resource for teachers in the WPAFB area.
Use WOW! on Wheels if:
- You don’t want to schedule a volunteer, but you want one of our WOW! in the Classroom lessons to present yourself or play our video.
- You want to borrow other activities and materials.
Materials are typically limited to a 35-mile radius of WPAFB; although accommodations can sometimes be made. Deliveries will be made to your building on Thursdays, and pick-ups will be on the following Wednesday.
Request WOW! on Wheels
Borrow materials.
The section contents are listed alphabetically. If you are having trouble finding something, please let us know. We are always happy to help.
- WOW! in the Classroom
- Educational Activities
- Materials & Equipment
- STEM Labs
- Children's Literature
- Classroom DVDs
Visit WOW! in the Classroom Webpage
WOW! in the Classroom kits can be borrowed. You’ll receive everything you need to replicate the exact lesson that our Wizards would present through WOW! in the Classroom. This will give you the freedom to present it yourself or through our videos on your own time schedule.
- Our kit includes the WOW! lesson plan and all necessary materials.
- Our courier will deliver the material on Thursdays, and pick it up the following Wednesday.
Please see our WOW! in the Classroom page for all available demos and important information about each one.
Our Educational Activities are items that we do not have full classroom sets of, but would be valuable teacher demonstrations, items for stations or small group work, or down time.
Some of the items borrowed through WOW! on Wheels come with teaching guides and activity ideas put together by the WOW! staff. Look for the below and click on the button "Helpful Tips"
- Our courier will deliver the material on Thursdays, and pick it up the following Wednesday.
- Submit your request.
- Apple Fractions
- Chain Links: "Link and Learn" by Learning Resources (Grades PreK-2)
- Cosmic Creatures
- Elemental Blocks
- Fence It In: Exploring Area and Perimeter (Grades 2 and up)
- Geo Brix
- Happy-Sad Balls
- K'Nex® Education Elementary Math and Geometry (Grades 1-3)
- K'Nex® Education Intermediate Math and Geometry (Grades 3-5)
- K'Nex® Education Middle School Math (Grades 6-8)
- Magna Tiles
- Moss Robots
- On the Dot (Grades 2 and up)
- On the Line (Grades 3 and up)
- Pattern Blocks
- Pizza Fractions
- Rock Tumbler (see more Earth Science activities under STEM Labs)
- Simple Machines
- Survive the Quake
- Unifix Cubes
- Vernier Probes
Our materials and equipment consist of common items used in science classrooms.
Some of the items borrowed through WOW! on Wheels come with teaching guides and activity ideas put together by the WOW! staff. Look for the below and click on the button "Helpful Tips"
- Our courier will deliver the material on Thursdays, and pick it up the following Wednesday.
- Submit your request.
- Beaker Tongs
- Beakers
- Binoculars
- Buchner Flasks
- Calipers
- Cipher - Jefferson Cipher Wheel
- Cipher - Mexican Army Cipher
- Compasses
- Clinometers
- Dice (fraction dice, blank dice, D4-D30)
- Energy Sticks and Energy Balls
- Erlenmeyer Flasks
- General Lab Equipment: Funnels, Eyedroppers, Pipettes, Petri Dishes, and Tweezers
- Globe
- Graduated Cylinders
- Hot Glue Guns
- Infrared Thermometer
- Lab Chemistry Hardware (stands and clamps)
- Magnets
- Magnifying Glasses
- Measuring Cups and Spoons
- Microscopes
- Microscope Slides
- Pitchers
- Safety Earmuffs
- Safety Glasses
- Scale, Digital
- Scale, Triple Beam Balance
- Screen Sieves (see more Earth Science activities under STEM Labs)
- Stopwatches
- Telescopes
- Test Tubes and Racks
- Thermal Imaging Camera/IR Camera (Fluke TiR) 2 cameras
- TI-84 Calculators
- Walking Wheels
- Wash Bottles
Many of our STEM Labs are classroom sets. The Labs include activities written by the manufacturer, other teachers, or the WOW! staff.
Some of the items borrowed through WOW! on Wheels come with teaching guides and activity ideas put together by the WOW! staff. Look for the below and click on the button "Helpful Tips"
- Our courier will deliver the material on Thursdays, and pick it up the following Wednesday.
- Submit your request.
- Cartesian Divers
- CBL 2 Data collection adapter with light, temperature, and voltage probes (compatible with the TI84 calculators)
- Distillation Kits
- Earth Science Rocks
- Finch Robots 2.0
- Geocaching and Hand-held GPS units and Activities
- K'Nex® Bridges Activity Set
- K'Nex® DNA Activity Set
- K'Nex Levers and Pulleys Kit
- Makey-Makey
- Marshmallow Mashers
- Micro:bits
- Molymod Organic/Inorganic Molecule Kits
- Optical Bench Set 1
- Optics Kit
- Ozobots: Bits and Evos
- Periodic Table Tiles
- Raspberry Pi
- Rolling Things Activity
- Snap Circuits
- Sphero Bolts
- Sphero indis
- Vernier Probes and Lab Activities
- Viscosity of Bubbles Lab
- Viscosity of Oil Lab
- Waves: An Introduction
- Weather and Climate Lab
Our Children’s Literature is available to be borrowed and used in your classroom. We have multiple copies of many titles.
- Our courier will deliver the material on Thursdays, and pick it up the following Wednesday.
- Submit your request.
- Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science - The First Computer Programmer
- Ada Twist, Scientist
- Adventures with Area
- BEEP! BEEP! Go to Sleep!
- Bug Book
- Chemistry Demonstration Aids That You Can Build
- The Complete Book of the Microscope
- Dice Activities for Math
- Dice Activities for Mathematical Thinking
- Dice Works - Math Games for Kids, using special dice
- Doc Fizzix's Mousetrap Powered Cars and Boats
- Electrical Circuits
- Girls Think of Everything - Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
- Grace Hopper - Queen of Computer Code
- Great Science Fair Projects
- Green Eyes
- I Face the Wind
- Iggy Peck, Architect
- Inventing the Automobile
- Inventions That Shaped the World – The Microscope
- Light and Sound
- Malarkey and the Big Trap
- Micro Monsters - Extreme Encounters with Invisible Armies
- Micro Monsters - Life Under the Microscope
- National Geographic Kids Readers - Robots
- Next Time You See a Cloud
- Next Time You See a Firefly
- Next Time You See a Maple Seed
- Next Time You See a Pill Bug
- Next Time You See a Seashell
- Next Time You See a Spider Web
- Next Time You See A Sunset
- Next Time You See the Moon
- Once Upon a Time in the Woods
- One Minute Mysteries - 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Math!
- One Minute Mysteries - 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Science!
- Radical Math - Card and Dice Games for 6th-12th graders
- Rosie Revere, Engineer
- Science Snackbook - Cook up Over 100 Hands-On Science Exhibits from Everyday Materials
- Shuffling Into Math - games for K-3
- Swimming With Sharks – The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
- The Doctor With An Eye for Eyes - The Story of Patricia Both
- The Girl Who Thought In Pictures - The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
- The Grapes of Math – Mind Stretching Math Riddles
- The Microscope Book
- The Rocket Age Takes Off
- The Sun - Our Nearest Star
- The Three Little Pigs Sledding Adventure
- The Wind Blew
- The World of the Microscope – A practical introduction with projects and activities
- Usborne Book of Science Experiments
- You Should Meet Katherine Johnson
- You Should Meet Mae Jemison
The DVDs in our library are available to borrow for classroom use.
- Our courier will deliver the material on Thursdays, and pick it up the following Wednesday.
- Submit your request.
- AEROLAB
- Apollo 13
- Bill Nye The Science Guy - Blood and Circulation
- Bill Nye The Science Guy – Computers
- Bill Nye The Science Guy – Flight
- Bill Nye The Science Guy – Magnetism
- Bill Nye The Science Guy – Motion
- Bill Nye The Science Guy – Waves
- Discovery Channel - MythBusters Breaking Glass
- Discovery Channel - MythBusters Buster Special
- Discovery Channel - MythBusters Holiday Special, Pirate Special, Hindenburg Mystery, Underwater Car, Speed Cameras
- Discovery Channel - MythBusters Hollywood on Trial
- Discovery Channel - MythBusters Revealed
- Discovery Channel - MythBusters Son of a Gun
- Discovery Channel - Salsa Escape
- Discovery Classics - The Ultimate Guide: The Human Body
- Engineers Can Do anything!
- If you want to know how the world works...Ask an Engineer Mythbusters Season One: Exploding Toilet, Barrel of Bricks, Cell Phone Destroys Gas Station
- Mythbusters Season One: Explosive Decompression, Sinking Titanic, Breakstep Bridge, Buried in Concrete
- Mythbusters Season One: Penny Drop, Buried Alive, Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
- Mythbusters Season One: Stinky Car, Alcatraz Escape, Chicken Gun
- The Eyes of Nye – Antibiotics
- The Road Ahead - Choosing an Engineering School
- TOP SECRET Rosies - The Female Computers of World War II
- Women in Engineering…The best kept secret to changing the world
- World Population - A graphic simulation of the history of human population growth