Have you started your teacher wish list for the new year? Whether you’re just getting started or already have a list of your favorite hands-on learning aids going, we hope you’ll find some wish list inspiration in these popular teaching tools.
1. Auscultation Trainer
This award-winning Auscultation Trainer is a favorite for the health science teacher wish list because it helps teach students rib palpation, stethoscope placement, and how to accurately recognize heart, lung, and bowel sounds. We also offer a Wearable Auscultation Trainer with all these features plus soft skills practice.
2. Butcher Beef Cut Models
Featuring four separate, quartered sections — round, loin, rib, and chuck — these lifelike Butcher Beef Cut Models include 21 magnetic models depicting the most popular cuts of beef. More interested in lamb? Check out our Butcher Lamb Cut Models.
3. Measurement Math Training Kit
Introduce students to more than 250 different measurements with the manipulatives and lessons in this Measurement Math Training Kit. Use these manipulatives with various rulers, including tape measures and calipers.
4. RealCare™ Shaken Baby
This Shaken Baby simulator is a hot item on the Family and Consumer Science (FCS) teacher wish list because it helps students understand the effects of only a few seconds of shaking on an infant’s brain and how to safely soothe a crying infant. After being shaken, this unique simulator’s transparent head illuminates to illustrate where brain damage occurred for a powerful visual.
5. ECG Simulator
Use this award-winning ECG Simulator to teach accurate placement of ECG leads on the body through rib palpation; how to read 3-, 4-, 5- and 12-lead rhythms; and how to recognize those rhythms on screen and in hard copy. We also offer a Pediatric ECG Simulator to teach your students how to place leads on a child.
6. Canine Vet Trainer
This realistic Canine Vet Trainer can help students practice restraint holds, venipuncture, catheterization, and bladder palpation as well as subcutaneous and intramuscular injections and lymph node palpation. You can incorporate the included standards-based curriculum for a complete experience.
7. RC Tractor Pull Challenge
The interactive RC Tractor Pull Challenge is a great agriculture and trades teacher wish list item thanks to its customizable tractors that help students explore tractor systems and structures and experiment with force and motion, friction and gravity, and other STEM concepts. As students assemble each of the five tractors, they can experiment with variables for different pulling outcomes.
8. Child Care Center Design Kit
This interactive Child Care Center Design Kit includes curriculum and manipulatives to teach students best practices for laying out learning center rooms. Want something similar for culinary or agriculture classes? Check out our Food Truck Design Kit and Animal Clinic Design Kit.
9. Knee and Ankle Sports Injury Assessment Trainer
Use this unique Knee and Ankle Sports Injury Assessment Trainer to help students learn how to diagnose and test common sports injuries when real-life examples are not available. Its articulating joints and muscles allow students to get hands-on practice assessing a variety of common ligament and tendon tears, including ACL, MCL, anterior talofibular, and more.
10. Swine Litter Processing Simulators
The Swine Litter Processing Simulators make the agriculture teacher wish list because they give students safe, hands-on practice with teeth clipping, tail docking, castration, and ear notching.
11. RealCareer™ Electrical Wiring Kit
The RealCareer™ Electrical Wiring Kit gives students a safe, hands-on lesson in wiring common electrical circuits.
12. Fetal Development Kit
With the Fetal Development Kit, students get an in-depth look at human embryo and fetal development. Students can touch, feel, and examine a detailed, life-size model of each fetal development stage.
13. Bariatric Nursing Manikin
The unique Bariatric Nursing Manikin, which represents a 350-pound male, is a must-have on your health science teacher wish list as it helps you create more realistic patient care practice scenarios.
14. Bovine Birthing and Ultrasound Simulator
Give your students hands-on practice conducting bovine ultrasounds and birthing calves with our Bovine Birthing and Ultrasound Simulator.
15. guideWELD® VR welding simulator
Implementing the guideWELD VR welding simulator enables users to refine basic welding skills. They also learn proper welding techniques and explore welding career paths while saving on costly consumables.
16. RealCare Pregnancy Profile Simulator
The Pregnancy Profile Simulator makes the FCS teacher wish list because it replicates the third trimester of pregnancy. This wearable pregnancy vest and curriculum helps users understand pregnancy’s impact on the body as well as life goals, finances, relationships, and emotions.
17. Adult Nursing Manikin
Create realistic, interactive scenarios for practicing over 20 basic care procedures, including CPR, with the award-winning Adult Nursing Manikin.
18. Pig Model
The Pig Model is one-third the size of an actual pig. The exterior depicts a detailed muscular system. Separating at the midline, it reveals 16 removable organs and body parts, including the digestive and reproductive systems.
19. guideWELD® LIVE real welding guidance system
The guideWELD® LIVE real welding guidance system is perfect for a trade skills teacher wish list as it helps students transition from the classroom to the welding booth.
20. RealCare Baby® Infant Simulator
RealCare Baby 3 is the world’s most advanced infant simulator. Educators around the world use this unique learning aid to teach early childhood, parenting, infant health lessons, and sex education.
21. Blood Pressure Simulator
Use this award-winning Blood Pressure Simulator, a unique training tool, to teach and practice proper techniques for taking blood pressure prior to actual clinical experience.
22. Bovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator
The Bovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator is on the agriculture teacher wish list because this unique learning aid teaches correct cervix manipulation, AI gun positioning, and pregnancy palpation.
23. RealCareer™ Bend Tester
Designed with education in mind, this 8-ton hydraulic, manual-guided Bend Tester allows educators to conduct destructive weld testing in a classroom as well as a welding lab.
24. RealCareer Employability Skills Program
The RealCareer Employability Skills Program is an engaging, easy-to-implement program. It uses hands-on activities as well as real-world applications to teach students 20 soft skills, from communication and interpersonal skills to time management and responsibility.
Additional Resources
- Looking for even more learning aids for your teacher wish list? Explore more CTE learning aids here
- See how you can create innovative, high-impact CTE programs on this page
- Want some implementation inspiration? Check out some of our customer stories to see how other teachers use many of these tools in their programs
