Want to try out that latest gadget?
UNO's Computer Science Education group maintains a collection of equipment and materials that teachers can check out to experiment, demo, and use in their classrooms!
The following materials are available for teachers upon request for a limited duration in order to promote exploration and provide access to students. Availability and loan duration for any particular item depends on demand from other schools as well as IS&T event needs. The lending library currently has the following materials and the number available are shown in parenthesis:
Plugged Materials
- Makey-Makey Kits (15)
- Finch Robots (15)
- Sphero 2.0 Robots (7)
- LittleBits Starter Kits
- Smarthome kits
- Miscellaneous additional components
- R2D2 Inventor Kits
- Micro:bit Boards (20) and Invention Kits (1)
- Ozobots (18)
- Circuit Playground Express (15)
Unplugged Materials
- Computational Thinking Bins
- Breakout Boxes (2 varieties)
- Digital Citizenship Survival Kit (materials only, lesson plan pending)
Other UNO Lesson Materials:
- BrickLayer -- Creative coding materials for a wide range of grade levels using functional programming, math, and art!
- Nebraska GenCyber Modules -- Multiple lesson plans and materials for cybersecurity topics.
If you would like to request a particular item (or set of items) from the lending library, please contact Dr. Brian Dorn at bdorn@unomaha.edu. Let us know what items you are interested in, how long you need them, when you can pick them up, and whether you have questions about how any of the items works.