Luciteria Science Expands It's Educational Toys For Science

At Luciteria Science, we have strong convictions about the importance, value, and joy of teaching people of all ages about natural science and of course, the elements! We believe knowing and understanding what elements are and why they are important is a key cornerstone in learning and education. Being able to see, touch, and experience the basic building blocks of our physical reality in their purest form is a delight for students, hobbyists, and laypeople alike. For people with a natural bent toward STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), STEM toys and hands-on learning resources can help them develop and explore their interests. 

With this in mind, Luciteria has created special educational bundles that are great for private collectors, educators, students, moms, dads, and science enthusiasts of all ages and interests!

Our educational bundle includes:

  • reference-grade, 10mm cubes of five basic child-safe elements

    • Aluminum

    • Carbon

    • Copper

    • Iron

    • Titanium

  • One standard desktop acrylic display case

This beautiful educational set looks great and offers a number of great learning options and educational insights for children and adults alike. Some learning activities might include:

  • Have them look up why the chemical symbol for copper is Cu. 

  • Ask them to research where titanium got its name and what it’s used for. 

  • Blow their minds by telling them carbon is the basic form of the “lead” in their pencils. 

  • Use magnets and let them experiment on the samples to find out which ones have magnetic properties. 

  • For language development, you might explain in the US, we pronounce aluminum “ah-LOO-min-um,” while in the UK it’s pronounced “al-yoo-MIN-ee-um.” 

  • Show them the iron cube and have them seek out other things containing iron, like a skillet or an old car body. 

  • Challenge their problem-solving skills, pattern recognition, and skills with sight words and visual information by having them place the samples in the correct location on the periodic table. 

The possibilities are only limited by your imagination and the temperaments of the children you’re teaching!

Kids learn best through imaginative play and learning games which make learning fun and interactive. Educational toys for babies and toddlers are designed to give little people a head start on mastering child development benchmarks such as gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, math skills, and means to develop and practice fine motor skills. Much like baby toys, toddler learning resources revolve heavily around brightly colored objects and different sounds.

Some examples of unisex and learning toys and gift learning toys available include:

  • Melissa & Doug Classic Wooden ABDC Building Blocks

  • Any Duplo Building Set, great for pretend play

  • Peg Puzzles for problem-solving skills

  • Any Flash Cards Set featuring animals, letters, numbers, and so on

  • Peekaboo Learning Farm playset kits

  • Fat Brain toy sets

 As children outgrow education toys for toddlers such as those from Fisher-Price, Ladybug, and other award-winning children’s’ toy companies, activities which help reinforce and further develop fine motor skill and creative problem-solving capabilities such as a baby doll, evolve and expand with electronic toys and interactive learning toys and gifts for kids, including a number of dedicated types of toy for boys and toddler girl toys. The challenge at this stage is to limit screen time without limiting learning!

Some examples of these include award winner kids’ toys such as:

  • Play calculator cash register toys

  • Play food

  • Lego Duplo building set and other building toy kits for older kids

  • Coding Critters coding kit for kids

  • Thinkfun Gravity Maze

  • Marble Run games

  • Leapfrog LeapPad tablets for kids

  • Augmented reality phone app games and computer programs

  • Magnetic whiteboard toys, stick-ons, and pen sets

  • Remote control robotics and engineering kits

Luciteria’s educational bundle is safe for school-aged children who are past the toddler stage of putting everything they see in their mouths. 

The elements included are safe, nontoxic and we only offer the highest quality and purity of samples available on the market. Obviously you wouldn’t want to eat them, but they can be safely handled and they’re easy to sanitize, keeping them looking great and minimizing the risk of spreading around infectious diseases such as COVID-19, flu, and other germs.

Our education bundle is wonderful for:

  • Classrooms

  • Chemistry set building

  • Collectors

  • Science kits

  • Home-schooling

  • Hobbyists

  • And more!

Our educational bundle kits can be used for child development and enrichment in school-aged kids, as well as to teach concepts such as:

Math: How many blocks do you see? How do you calculate the atomic mass of an element?

Physics: What do the basics of our world look like? How do they fit together? What are their properties? What can we use them for? Why do we need them?

Chemistry: What might happen to these elements when you expose them to water or air? If you combine atoms of this element plus atoms of that one, what do you get? Hold up the carbon, iron, and titanium cubes to demonstrate that these elements together form titanium-steel alloys. Have children evaluate where and how these elements fit into a chemistry set. 

Engineering: You know the properties of these elements. How do you decide which ones, or which alloys of multiple elements, are best suited to a given design or application?

Computer Science: What is copper used for? Why not iron? Couldn’t you use titanium instead? Encourage students to consider how these refined chunks of elements become the powerful information-gathering and communication devices we rely on for so much of our standard of living.

Language: Use the elements as a basis for learning their ABCs. “A is for arsenic.” Ask kids what the names for these elements are in other languages? “Copper” in English is rendered as “cobre” in Spanish, “cuivre” in French, and “Kupfer” in German. As your student’s journey toward achieving bilingual status, the elements can be used as an anchor point for delving into more complex linguistic usages than “Where is the post office?”

At Luceteria, we believe no one’s ever too young or too old to learn something new, and our educational toy bundles offer exciting ways to interact with the most basic parts of our world. How will you use them, and what will your kids and students learn from them? It’s really up to you. Click here to learn more!

 

Frequently Asked Questions About Educational Toys

Question: What are educational toys?

Answer: Educational toys are any toys that are intended or used to teach about the world around us. Some examples include the LeapPad from Leapfrog, Melissa and Doug Classic ABC block carts, the Peekaboo Learning Farm, and even dolls! In addition, some companies are moving toward augmented reality teaching using phone apps, immersive video games, and so on.

 

Question: What makes a toy educational?

Answer: A toy becomes educational when it’s both fun and instructive. A toy that teaches fine motor skills or problem-solving is just as educational as a toy that is covered with letters or numbers. 

Robotics and model airplane kits are a good example of this: they’re fun to build, deliver something fun to look at and play with at the end while teaching a number of skills the student may not even realize they’re learning. 

Luciteria’s educational bundle is designed to meet all these criteria and offer a fun, interactive way to learn about the physical sciences and much more!

 

Question: Why are educational toys important?

Answer: Several longitudinal studies have demonstrated the ongoing importance of interactive toys and immersive learning in preparing children to function, cope, and thrive in an increasingly complex and connected world. Toys that help teach and reinforce concepts such as language comprehension, mathematical principles, and “soft skills” such as sharing, cooperation, and teamwork are becoming more important and necessary than ever before. 

Because of this, educational toys, especially gender-neutral ones which are not specifically geared toward boys or girls, are becoming more popular than ever before!

 

Question: Why is investing in educational toys important?

Answer: Educational toys are beneficial for many reasons. They can be used multiple times, through multiple children or classes. They help reinforce curricular lessons and information. By investing in educational toys such as Luciteria’s educational bundle, you can purchase them once and share the benefits and lessons they have to teach for years to come.

 

Question: What are STEAM Toys?

Answer: STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Electronics, and Math. Leave out the A and it becomes “STEM,” which is another popular acronym. STEAM toys are specifically designed to teach and illustrate concepts in the natural and hard sciences, from chemistry to robotics to physics to computers.

 

Question: Why are STEM toys so popular?

Answer: STEM toys are becoming more popular for many reasons. First, parents and educators alike are looking for ways to divert students from excessive screen time. Second, as society rethinks gender roles, more girls want to be scientists, doctors, engineers, computer programmers, and so on. Equally important, they have greater access to the necessary education for these professions than ever before. The baby doll and toy truck will never go away, and video games are here to stay barring a catastrophic collapse of civilization as we know it. But STEM toys’ popularity is not likely to wane anytime soon because they’re interactive, many don’t require power, batteries, or Internet connections, and, perhaps most important, they’re FUN!

 

Question: Can you suggest a great educational toy I can give as a gift?

Answer: If you’re looking for an interactive learning toy the whole family will enjoy, you’ve come to the right place. Luciteria’s educational bundle is a great starting point for you and yours to learn and grow together. You can choose from an array of solid element cubes and raw-format samples in our one-of-a-kind Lucite cubes to augment your collection over the years, giving you and your family a special bonding experience you can share for a lifetime—even with the grandkids someday! Not only are they fun to play with and interesting to learn about, but they’re beautiful to look at and each new piece will have its own special place in the story of your family.

 

Luciteria Science is proud to offer educational bundles and individual element samples in a number of formats. All our products meet the most stringent possible requirements for purity, appearance, and overall quality. Our pure element samples are actual, working, representative samples such as you might find in collegiate laboratories and at facilities like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. Best of all, we stand behind every product we sell with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

When you want to give an educational toy that is both fun and informative, our educational bundle is a wonderful starting point upon which you can build a lifetime of your own family’s adventures as you learn and grow together. Great for the teacher, professor, hobbyist, or student, there’s really no wrong reason to give one of these bundles. Luciteria can ship to most countries, so even if you have family or friends across the globe, you can give the gift of a lifetime of learning. To learn more about Luciteria’s educational bundles or purchase your own, click here!

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Answer: Luciteria is deeply committed to keeping your personal information private, as it should be. We never rent or sell customer info, or share it with anyone except as required by law. When you shop with us, you can shop with confidence that your information will be used only as necessary to fill your order and fulfill record-keeping requirements.