One of the most effective ways to engage students in STEM is through real-world challenges that connect to their lives and careers. Realityworks’ hands-on tools replicate real-world problems, allowing students to apply STEM concepts in practical settings.
Whether you’re starting or enhancing your curriculum, Realityworks’ STEM products offer practical, career-focused experiences for Career & Technical Education (CTE) students.
Building Future-Ready Skills:
Integrating STEM in Trades with Hands-On Learning Tools
Use this free guide to learn how Realityworks’ products align with the “STEM 7 Pillars,” a research-backed framework that supports effective STEM education.
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STEM Teaching Tools
Trailer Circuits STEM Kit
Transform the mystery of electricity into a concrete set of skills through the real-world context of wiring a trailer, making the learning process both accessible and practical.
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What Makes This Product STEM?
- Students tackle real-world trailer wiring issues, simulating real-world fixes with hands-on practice.
- Learners design, wire, and test circuits, applying concepts like Ohm’s Law or parallel circuit properties
- The simulator bridges the gap between theory and practice, allowing students to directly apply electrical concepts and preparing them to explore robotics, automative repair and more.
- Math, science, and technology concepts come together in wiring, calculations, and multimeter testing.
- Guided troubleshooting builds real-world skills as students assess faults and test repairs through 10 scenarios.
- Collaboration enhances learning as teams of 2–4 students work together.
- Understanding electricity prepares students for future careers in automotive, manufacturing, aerospace and engineering across all disciplines.
RC Tractor Pull Challenge (5-pack) with Pulling Sled
Encourage critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork as your students dive into real-world applications of engineering and physics principles.
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What Makes This Product STEM?
- The RC tractors are modifiable, allowing students to replicate real-world adjustments for agricultural tasks or tractor pulls.
- Students experiment with wheel size, gearing, and hitch height to optimize performance.
- Concepts like weight, friction, and gear ratios – concepts that apply throughout the world of trades and engineering – are explored, with hands-on results seen in each tractor pull.
- Lessons integrate science topics such as experimental design, Newton’s Laws, and friction, while engaging students in relevant mathematical calculations regarding mechanical advantage, gear ratios, and force angles
- Guided testing helps students evaluate variables, analyze data, and perfect their tractor designs.
- This learning experience is idea for teams of 2 – 4 students, allowing participants to capitalize on their individual strengths as they collaborate on their team challenge.
- By applying their conceptual understandings and hands-on skills in this engaging challenge, students explore the range of abilities and interests that can foster success in trades and engineering careers.
Electrical Wiring Kit
Give students a safe, repeatable way to practice wiring common electrical circuits, with instant assessment and corrective feedback as they work.
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What Makes This Product STEM?
- Bring real-world electrician skills into the classroom using authentic tools and materials.
- Students independently test and troubleshoot their installations with the included Assessment Tool, and complex installations are encouraged through Enhancement Exercises.
- Standard wire, electrical boxes, and fixtures mimic real-world applications, making skills easily transferable.
- Electrical understanding and trade skills developed in science class, or put into action in robotics or engineering, are applied in this kit.
- Students play the role of electrical inspectors, troubleshooting faulty installations.
- This kit is ideal for 2–4 students, fostering teamwork and skill development.
- Mirroring the skills and practices of an electrician, this kit develops a practical foundation that opens doors to multitudes of career opportunities.
Measurement Math Training Kit
Practice essential measurement skills, from basic readings to more advanced concepts, through a combination of physical tools and interactive online lessons.
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What Makes This Product STEM?
- Precision measurement is a core STEM skill applicable to a wide range of challenges.
- Hands-on manipulatives engage students in practical learning experiences.
- From mathematics and numeracy to physics and chemistry, the tools and skills developed in this kit find a home in nearly every STEM classroom.
- STEM professionals must confidently collect accurate measurements, analyze numeric data, and perform conversions.
- The kit includes 5 sets of manipulatives, allowing students to work in teams while remaining individually accountable through the student workbook and online activities.
guideWELD® VR welding simulator
Hone fundamental welding skills in a safe, virtual environment that offers immediate assessment of every weld.
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What Makes This Product STEM?
- Welding is a key skill for countless careers, from infrastructure to space exploration.
- Immediate feedback on 5 measurable welding parameters allows students to engage in reflective improvement independent of the teacher’s intervention.
- The simulator mimics real welding, offering hands-on practice with MIG and Stick guns, physical joints, and gloves.
- The 5 measurable welding parameters and provided curriculum connect mathematical concepts (angle), physics (distance, speed, electricity), and chemistry (safety, gasses, fumes) into a real-world skill-building experience.
- Students receive assessment snapshots and replays after each weld for focused improvement.
- The external monitor effectively allows small groups to engage with the simulator as a team, rotating roles and providing peer feedback.
- Mastery of welding on the simulator lays a strong foundation for success in real-world applications.
Additional Resources:
Webinar – Engaging Students with Hands-On STEM: Tools for Real-World Learning
Blog – STEM and CTE: 3 Teaching Tools to Bring STEM into Your Classroom