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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. Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.

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The Education Outreach office reserves the right to cancel events due to surges in COVID-19 cases or changes in or elevation of health protection conditions - HPCONs. We will attempt to give as much notice as possible if a cancelation occurs. As a Wright-Patterson AFB organization, we must adhere to DoD, DAF, and/or WPAFB guidelines.

The section contents are listed alphabetically. If you are having trouble finding something, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

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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.

  • Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.

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"

  • Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.
  1. Apple Fractions
  2. Chain Links: "Link and Learn" by Learning Resources (Grades PreK-2)
  3. Cosmic Creatures
  4. Elemental Blocks
  5. Fence It In: Exploring Area and Perimeter (Grades 2 and up)
  6. Geo Brix
  7. Happy-Sad Balls
  8. K'Nex® Education Elementary Math and Geometry (Grades 1-3)
  9. K'Nex® Education Intermediate Math and Geometry (Grades 3-5)
  10. K'Nex® Education Middle School Math (Grades 6-8)
  11. Magna Tiles
  12. Moss Robots
  13. On the Dot (Grades 2 and up)
  14. On the Line (Grades 3 and up)
  15. Pattern Blocks
  16. Pizza Fractions
  17. Rock Tumbler (see more Earth Science activities under STEM Labs)
  18. Simple Machines
  19. Survive the Quake
  20. Unifix Cubes
  21. 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"

  • Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.
  1. Beaker Tongs
  2. Beakers
  3. Binoculars
  4. Buchner Flasks
  5. Calipers
  6. Cipher - Jefferson Cipher Wheel
  7. Cipher - Mexican Army Cipher
  8. Compasses
  9. Clinometers
  10. Dice (fraction dice, blank dice, D4-D30)
  11. Energy Sticks and Energy Balls
  12. Erlenmeyer Flasks
  13. General Lab Equipment: Funnels, Eyedroppers, Pipettes, Petri Dishes, and Tweezers
  14. Globe
  15. Graduated Cylinders
  16. Hot Glue Guns
  17. Infrared Thermometer
  18. Lab Chemistry Hardware (stands and clamps)
  19. Magnets
  20. Magnifying Glasses
  21. Measuring Cups and Spoons
  22. Microscopes
  23. Microscope Slides
  24. Pitchers
  25. Safety Earmuffs
  26. Safety Glasses
  27. Scale, Digital
  28. Scale, Triple Beam Balance
  29. Screen Sieves (see more Earth Science activities under STEM Labs)
  30. Stopwatches
  31. Telescopes
  32. Test Tubes and Racks
  33. Thermal Imaging Camera/IR Camera (Fluke TiR) 2 cameras
  34. TI-84 Calculators
  35. Walking Wheels
  36. 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"

  • Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.
  1. Cartesian Divers
  2. CBL 2 Data collection adapter with light, temperature, and voltage probes (compatible with the TI84 calculators)
  3. Distillation Kits
  4. Earth Science Rocks
  5. Finch Robots 2.0
  6. Geocaching and Hand-held GPS units and Activities
  7. K'Nex® Bridges Activity Set
  8. K'Nex® DNA Activity Set
  9. K'Nex Levers and Pulleys Kit
  10. Makey-Makey
  11. Marshmallow Mashers
  12. Micro:bits
  13. Molymod Organic/Inorganic Molecule Kits
  14. Optical Bench Set 1
  15. Optics Kit
  16. Ozobots: Bits and Evos
  17. Periodic Table Tiles
  18. Raspberry Pi
  19. Rolling Things Activity
  20. Snap Circuits
  21. Sphero Bolts
  22. Sphero indis
  23. Vernier Probes and Lab Activities
  24. Viscosity of Bubbles Lab
  25. Viscosity of Oil Lab
  26. Waves: An Introduction

Our Children’s Literature is available to be borrowed and used in your classroom. We have multiple copies of many titles.

  • Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.
  1. Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science - The First Computer Programmer
  2. Ada Twist, Scientist
  3. Adventures with Area
  4. BEEP! BEEP! Go to Sleep!
  5. Bug Book
  6. Chemistry Demonstration Aids That You Can Build
  7. The Complete Book of the Microscope
  8. Dice Activities for Math
  9. Dice Activities for Mathematical Thinking
  10. Dice Works - Math Games for Kids, using special dice
  11. Doc Fizzix's Mousetrap Powered Cars and Boats
  12. Electrical Circuits
  13. Girls Think of Everything - Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
  14. Grace Hopper - Queen of Computer Code
  15. Great Science Fair Projects
  16. Green Eyes
  17. I Face the Wind
  18. Iggy Peck, Architect
  19. Inventing the Automobile
  20. Inventions That Shaped the World – The Microscope
  21. Light and Sound
  22. Malarkey and the Big Trap
  23. Micro Monsters - Extreme Encounters with Invisible Armies
  24. Micro Monsters - Life Under the Microscope
  25. National Geographic Kids Readers - Robots
  26. Next Time You See a Cloud
  27. Next Time You See a Firefly
  28. Next Time You See a Maple Seed
  29. Next Time You See a Pill Bug
  30. Next Time You See a Seashell
  31. Next Time You See a Spider Web
  32. Next Time You See A Sunset
  33. Next Time You See the Moon
  34. Once Upon a Time in the Woods
  35. One Minute Mysteries - 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Math!
  36. One Minute Mysteries - 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Science!
  37. Radical Math - Card and Dice Games for 6th-12th graders
  38. Rosie Revere, Engineer
  39. Science Snackbook - Cook up Over 100 Hands-On Science Exhibits from Everyday Materials
  40. Shuffling Into Math - games for K-3
  41. Swimming With Sharks – The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
  42. The Doctor With An Eye for Eyes - The Story of Patricia Both
  43. The Girl Who Thought In Pictures - The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
  44. The Grapes of Math – Mind Stretching Math Riddles
  45. The Microscope Book
  46. The Rocket Age Takes Off
  47. The Sun - Our Nearest Star
  48. The Three Little Pigs Sledding Adventure
  49. The Wind Blew
  50. The World of the Microscope – A practical introduction with projects and activities
  51. Usborne Book of Science Experiments
  52. You Should Meet Katherine Johnson
  53. You Should Meet Mae Jemison

The DVDs in our library are available to borrow for classroom use.

  • Materials will be delivered on Tuesday and picked up on Thursday of the following week.
  1. AEROLAB
  2. Apollo 13
  3. Bill Nye The Science Guy - Blood and Circulation
  4. Bill Nye The Science Guy – Computers
  5. Bill Nye The Science Guy – Flight
  6. Bill Nye The Science Guy – Magnetism
  7. Bill Nye The Science Guy – Motion
  8. Bill Nye The Science Guy – Waves
  9. Discovery Channel - MythBusters Breaking Glass
  10. Discovery Channel - MythBusters Buster Special
  11. Discovery Channel - MythBusters Holiday Special, Pirate Special, Hindenburg Mystery, Underwater Car, Speed Cameras
  12. Discovery Channel - MythBusters Hollywood on Trial
  13. Discovery Channel - MythBusters Revealed
  14. Discovery Channel - MythBusters Son of a Gun
  15. Discovery Channel - Salsa Escape
  16. Discovery Classics - The Ultimate Guide: The Human Body
  17. Engineers Can Do anything!
  18. 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
  19. Mythbusters Season One: Explosive Decompression, Sinking Titanic, Breakstep Bridge, Buried in Concrete
  20. Mythbusters Season One: Penny Drop, Buried Alive, Lightning Strikes/Tongue Piercing
  21. Mythbusters Season One: Stinky Car, Alcatraz Escape, Chicken Gun
  22. The Eyes of Nye – Antibiotics
  23. The Road Ahead - Choosing an Engineering School
  24. TOP SECRET Rosies - The Female Computers of World War II
  25. Women in Engineering…The best kept secret to changing the world
  26. World Population - A graphic simulation of the history of human population growth