At Eduporium, we work with a number of leading educational technology manufacturers and have created a huge online store where teachers can get pretty much all the EdTech they need in one place. We’re proud about the partnerships we’ve cultivated, but we’re even more proud of the money we help educators save. Our Educator Discount program allows any educator who purchases technology from us to save as much as 20 percent when they purchase from our store. While the discounts range in amount depending on what they buy, there is at least some of a discount on almost everything and here are some of the biggest educational discounts teachers can get on the Eduporium store.
Puzzlets
Among the group of technologies with the largest discounts on our store is the early educational, puzzle-style game known as Puzzlets. Fairly pricey before applying the Educator Discount, the Puzzlets kit retails for $99.99. Our partnership with the creators of Puzzlets, Digital Dream Labs, however, has allowed us to sell it to educators for $81.99. Any educator who has signed up for our Educator Discount program will see both the original price and their special price when they log in to their account. Since we serve teachers and students of all grade levels, we thought we’d start out with something for early learners and Puzzlets is just that. It’s designed to provide kids in Grades 1-3 with an interactive, game-like challenge to help them develop tech, problem-solving, and even a little bit of programming skills!
The easy-to-use, fun-to-play Puzzlets system is able to provide students with a meaningful first foray into both computational thinking and logical reasoning—without them even knowing that they’re learning! With a focus on 21st century skills, Puzzlets helps activate the whole brain by engaging kids with challenging puzzles they’ll have a blast solving. The different Puzzlets apps are designed with future-focused learning in mind, allowing kids as young as five to learn at their own pace without even realizing they’re developing programming skills. The beauty of Puzzlets really stems from its ability to take what seems like playtime and turn it into experiences that are useful for 21st century students. Though they are years away from applying these digital skills in the workforce, Puzzlets can play a pivotal role in shaping foundational skills from a very young age!
As far as the technology goes, Puzzlets is a very simple system to use. It includes a Bluetooth-enabled, USB-compatible Play Tray that’s built specifically to be easy to operate and readily accessible for young children. The Puzzlets tiles are all under an ounce in weight and about an inch square, making them effortless for small kids to handle and place correctly. The included educational game is also both engaging and subtle, designed to let students learn at the pace that’s best for them with technology that’s not too difficult for them to understand. It also features a rechargeable battery that is built for up to seven hours of continuous gameplay before it needs recharging and it can easily hold a charge for up to three months depending on usage. Device-wise, Puzzlets works great with iOS devices as its family of apps is designed to optimize the learning experience by incorporating a tablet screen.
XYZ da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer
When it comes to 3D printing in education, finding a reliable model for under $1,000 can be a little bit challenging. The good news, however, is that it’s definitely getting easier as the technology and efficiency continue to improve. One of the best ways to combine power, classroom simplicity, and affordability is the da Vinci 1.0 from XYZ. We’ve had XYZ printers on our store for a couple of years now and they really have models to suit just about every educational need. Whether you’re looking for something big, something small, something for beginners, something for experts, something for a classroom, or something for a makerspace, their wide range of products should surely provide you with something that’s appropriate. With XYZ, students can truly unleash their creative genius while getting crafty and inventing some pretty incredible designs!
The da Vinci 1.0 comes fully assembled and boasts the largest print size in its class with vivid filaments designed to ensure perfect prints every time. It’s the ideal printer for getting started with 3D printing as it perfectly enables kids to customize, design, and print what they want—when they want! Like all XYZ printers, the da Vinci 1.0 is completely compatible with both ABS and PLA filaments and is fully enclosed, strengthening safety during use. Just plug and play—the da Vinci 1.0 is ready to go right out of the box and features easily installed filament cartridges for rapid refill. It will even let users know when it’s running low on filament and do it all at a fraction of the cost of common 3D printers! Just how much is the discount we can offer on this model? Well, the regular price is $349.95, but we can get it to educators for just $286.96!
This model uses fused filament fabrication, which is common in 3D printers, to deliver lifelike 3D printed materials each and every time. Its LCD display offers users a guided experience while its automatic nozzle cleaning function makes it extremely user-friendly! As for power, the da Vinci 1.0 boasts up to 230 V AC of input voltage and features four print speeds, including fine (100 microns), standard (200 microns), speed (300 microns), and ultra fast (400 microns). Students can simply connect it to a Mac or Windows computer (it supports both) through the USB connection and they’re good to go! If you want something a little more robust or powerful, be sure to check out the other XYZ printers on our store too and visit our 3D printing page to learn more!
Snap Circuits Kits
Some of the Snap Circuits kits on our store might not appear that discounted on first glance, but that’s only because they are already quite affordable. So, while the discount percentage is among the highest on our store, it might not appear as such until you stop and think about it. Like XYZ, Snap Circuits kits have been on our store for a couple of years now and their simple integration into a classroom setting is one of the reasons educators continue to turn to these kits. We offer over 35 of their kits on our site with Educator Discount pricing on each of them. Whether it’s the classic Snap Circuits Pro 500 Kit or one of the newer versions, like Snaptricity or Snap Rover, teachers can rest assured knowing they’re getting a good deal on increasing classroom innovation.
Out of all the Snap Circuits kits, the Pro 500 kit is among our favorites—and for good reason. Snap Circuits Pro is bursting with tech for kid-crafted experiments, guided instructions for real working projects, and hundreds of interactive STEAM activities that bring brand new angles to science! Kids as young as 8 will grasp electronics thanks to endless creative opportunities that mix learning with play! Educators can open the box and get started in minutes as students begin crafting, buzzing, and teaching you a thing or two in no time at all! Project possibilities range from the beginner level to advanced with over 500 progressively complex options, including an FM Radio, digital voice recorder, AC generator, and transformer—just to name a few!
One of our other favorites is the Snaptricity Kit, which, as its name implies, can be used to teach children more about the nature of electricity through hands-on experiments and projects. Based on the tried and true guidebook that Snap Circuits users know and love, the Snaptricity Kit features 75 elementary-level science projects that challenge children to access their true creativity and design new devices all day long. Each project is a new adventure in electronics, highlighting different science concepts all while students engineer circuits with every-step-of-the-way help from the guidebook. They’ll learn all about magnetic fields, switches, series circuits, and parallel circuits as well as how these each of these factor into every day electrical use! Add a spark of excitement to STEM classrooms and let the Snaptricity Kit enlighten kids on the many uses of magnetism at the same time!
View-Master
You didn’t think we’d go through a post about EdTech on our store without mentioning something related to virtual reality, did you? VR is a rapidly advancing technology and, although it’s far from perfect, it still offers a lot of opportunities for the classroom. Sure, there are high-end systems that cost up to a few thousand dollars, but there are also much, much simpler versions that kids can use to achieve the same objective—becoming immersed in a 360-degree world of what they are learning about. The View-Master VR headset is a modern update on the classic children’s toy and a perfectly respectable option for virtual learning in the early grades. It’s very affordable, too, with the regular price at $29.99 and the Educator Discount price coming in at $24.59!
The View-Master is a modern twist on the original children’s toy packed with more power and precision to help kids explore the latest in virtual reality using its innovative platform. Kids can easily download any of the free View-Master apps, slide their smartphone into the viewer, and place the Preview Reel in front of them to unlock augmented reality features and sample interactive content! No longer is learning history and science a sideline sport. With the View-Master, kids can actively investigate the educational areas they’re covering in class with options for exploration more in-depth than they ever could have imagined! the View-Master serves as a perfect, age-appropriate introduction to VR and all its possibilities, making this revolutionary and affordable learning tool a soon-to-be staple in elementary school classrooms!
It works with Google Cardboard and comes loaded with advanced features that enhance virtual reality experiences every step of the way. It seamlessly surrounds students with a mesmerizing 360-degree environment, making them feel as if they’re really exploring the sights they see. With state-of-the-art lenses and revamped focal adjustment settings, View-Master truly is a learning tool straight out of the future. Its latest model also boasts a headphone connecter, which enables immersive listening, and features a built-in adapter for connecting the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and iPhone 5s. It’s compatible with just about any smartphone kids can find and its redesigned ergonomics provide the most comfortable VR viewing experience possible, making the View-Master an awesome intro into virtual reality!
Thames & Kosmos
Thames and Kosmos isn’t necessarily one of the lines we hype up a whole lot, but we definitely should be. They have designed and released well over 30 STEM kits for students, which cover tons of different science concepts in a hands-on way. And, a lot of the concepts they focus on are ones that might not necessarily be getting a bulk of the attention in the education world, but are still very much related to STEM. Take botany, fingerprinting, and genetics, for example—not the most compelling things to teach children in school these days, but each could make for a very intriguing future career in STEM. We like Thames & Kosmos because some of their kits break away from what’s become commonly taught in STEM classrooms and taken things in a bit of a different direction. We do also like their STEM kits, too, to be perfectly honest.
One of those STEM kits in the Robotics Smart Machines Kit, which allows children to develop key STEM skills, like engineering and programming, while building and controlling robots. It’s one of their more expensive kits as its part of the Thames & Kosmos Signature Series, but the typical discount we offer on Thames & Kosmos products is right around 18 percent. Using the familiar idea of building a toy and adding modern relevance with app-controlled robots, the Robotics Smart Machines Kit guides kids as they enter the exciting field of robotics by affording them complete control and empowering them build their own robots. With this innovative kit and its 230 building pieces, kids can craft all sorts of inventive projects! Once they’ve built all the robots, they can take their learning a step further by downloading the compatible app and writing programs for their bots!
Our other favorite kit is a bit more affordable and designed for students as young as five years old. Thames & Kosmos’ Intro to Engineering Kit is the perfect way to introduce younger students to the practical, magical, and powerful world of engineering. By mirroring real-world engineering skills in fun, simple, and engaging projects, this intuitive kit guides kids in their journey towards becoming STEAM-savvy students! The Intro to Engineering kit comes complete with over 70 pieces and 25 experiments for engineering enthusiasts to try, rework, and master as they apply their project-based findings and technical knowledge to design dynamite devices and build scientific supremacy! To explore all of our Thames & Kosmos kits, click below and to sign up for our Educator Discount to ensure you get the best prices possible, click here!
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