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Glowing translucent Bauspiel lucent cubes stacked in stained-glass color for STEAM light and construction play

STEAMWonder & Investigation

Light, Color & Deep Time

Wonder is the first method. Magnetic tiles, light-table blocks, life-cycle sets, and the tools of looking closer, built for the questions children actually ask.

Section 06 · Pre-K to Grade 5
For budget & procurement

Built for the engineering-design and science practices STEAM standards ask for: build, test, observe, and revise. Magnetic tiles, light-table blocks, and the tools of looking closer. We can map each set to a practice in an alignment letter, on request. May qualify for funding through Title IV-A STEM and local engineering grants. Final eligibility is determined by your school or district.

NGSS · Engineering Design Request an alignment letter Ages 3+ · Pre-K to Grade 5Card or invoice accepted Birch and German alder wood Faceted acrylic, magnetic tiles Maker spaces & light tables ASTM F963 · EN 71 Made in Lithuania, Germany, Austria, Bosnia, Nepal & China Connetix designed in Australia Net 60 & tax-exempt

Slow goods, on purpose. And one deliberate exception.

Zilvinas Stankevicius turns the kaleidoscopes himself in Lithuania. Bauspiel sets are assembled and checked in Augsburg, Germany by Uwe Deckelmann and his daughter Hanna, from components made across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Germany. The exception is Connetix, an Australian family company whose tiles are made in China. They are here because they are tested to ASTM F963, and because nothing else on the shelf turns flat into standing that fast.

Early-school children exploring translucent shapes and color at a classroom light table

Wonder comes before vocabulary. Then comes the question.

A child notices the way the amber catches the morning light. She turns the kaleidoscope. She turns it again. She has no word yet for refraction. She has only the question. STEAM, in this catalog, is the toolkit for that question. Birch kaleidoscopes. Magnetic tiles that arch into windows. Jewel-block geometry. A wooden microscope sized for a small hand. No batteries. No instructions. Just the long, generous space between the noticing and the naming.

Kaleidoscope & microscope

The first instruments, for looking closer.

Magnetic tile

Flat to wall to arch, a tower that stands.

Light table

Color through glass, and what happens where two colors overlap.

Specimen study

The slow look, and what a child keeps.

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Magnetic tiles, light-table blocks, and the tools of looking closer, built for the questions children actually ask.

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A child at a sunlit window holds a birch kaleidoscope to one eye, amber pieces arranged across the panes catching the morning light View full details [ AMBER KALEIDOSCOPES ]
Kaleidoscopes · Featured

Kaleidoscopes of natural materials.

Hand-turned birch. Three palettes.

A child holds it up, turns the end, and the light rearranges itself. Nothing to switch on and nothing to break. Amber holds Baltic amber, Forest Magic recycled bottle glass, Blue Dreams stained glass, so three at a table see three results from the same turn and can say why.

Turned by Zilvinas Stankevicius in Lithuania, where he works in wood, amber, stone and glass.

Each barrel is 5.7 × 1.6 in. One kaleidoscope in your chosen palette, or all three as the Trio.

Material Hand-turned birch with internal plastic mirrors
Origin Lithuania
Ages 3+. Plastic mirrors. Sealed chambers.

Trio, all three palettes, $102. Single palettes $34.

$102

Buy a single palette, or the Trio above.

Amber Kaleidoscope, a hand-turned birch kaleidoscope from Lithuania[ AMBER ]
Amber Kaleidoscope
01Amber KaleidoscopeA sealed chamber of Baltic amber, warm and golden at the eye. Hand-turned birch from the maker’s own workshop.MTW-ST-AMB · 5.7 in$34
Blue Dreams Kaleidoscope, a hand-turned birch kaleidoscope from Lithuania[ BLUE DREAMS ]
Blue Dreams Kaleidoscope
02Blue Dreams KaleidoscopeA sealed chamber of stained glass fragments, cool where the Amber runs warm. The pair makes the comparison the point.MTW-ST-BLU · 5.7 in$34
Forest Magic Kaleidoscope, a hand-turned birch kaleidoscope from Lithuania[ FOREST MAGIC ]
Forest Magic Kaleidoscope
03Forest Magic KaleidoscopeA sealed chamber of recycled bottle glass, green and forest-lit. The third palette, and the one that makes the set a comparison of materials.MTW-ST-FOR · 5.7 in$34
01 The Connetix Classroom
A flat tile becomes a wall, then a tower, then a window the morning light pours through.
From the 2026 Fall Edition, page 37
Connetix · The Education Range

Built for a classroom, not a living room.

Three sets, built around a different palette rather than a different size. The Mathematics tub is 186 pieces for $219, which is what three separate packs totalling 168 pieces would cost.

A child at a classroom table laying magnetic tiles out as the numerals five, seven and nine on a Connetix resource card
Laying the numerals out in tiles, from a Connetix resource card.
See every piece
Every piece in the Mathematics Set, laid out by shape and color
All 186 pieces,
at true proportion
MTW-ST-CEM · CT-ER-00186-MS$219

Mathematics

The color code they already teach with.

Fourteen colors, one per shapeBar sized to piece count

Follows the pattern-block convention already in the math cupboard: yellow hexagon, orange trapezoid, red triangle, magenta rhombus. A child who has sorted pattern blocks can pick this up and already know what the colors mean, which is why it drops into instruction a school is running now rather than asking for a new one.

The Mathematics Set storage tubShips in
this tub 186 pieces · 15.76 lb
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A child at a classroom table holding the tall rainbow tower she has just finished building from Connetix tiles
One tower, finished, at a table the class already has.
See every piece
Every piece in the STEAM Set, laid out by shape and color
All 272 pieces,
thirty-four in each color
MTW-ST-CES · CT-ER-00272-SS$299

STEAM

The one tub a general classroom needs.

The eight-color Bright paletteThirty-four pieces each

Squares, windows, three kinds of triangle, quarter circles and open portals, so one tub covers construction, light study and pattern work without anyone deciding in September which of the three the year will be about. The even split is the point: every color can do every job.

The STEAM Set storage tubShips in
this tub 272 pieces · 22.49 lb
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Two children on a classroom floor feeding a ball into a tall Connetix ball run built from tiles and clear tubes
Feeding the run, against the room's own tote-tray shelving.
See every piece
Every piece in the Engineering Set, laid out by shape and color
All 392 pieces,
tiles and ball run together
MTW-ST-CEE · CT-ER-00392-ES$339

Engineering

The only one with the clear run.

Bright, plus the clear fluted tubesThirty-two balls, four per color

The largest set, and the only tub that carries the clear fluted tubes, a release gate and thirty-two balls, four times what the Ball Run pack holds. A marble you can watch the whole way down is the difference between a child guessing why a run failed and seeing it. Ships as two stacking tubs, with printed build cards for four main builds.

The Engineering Set storage tubShips in
this tub 392 pieces · 25.79 lb
View full details →
In every tub
Printed teacher notes, resource cards, and lesson and build ideas, in a stackable tub with handles rather than a box. Same tiles, same ultrasonic welding and metal rivets as the individual packs.
Ordering
Three to four weeks. Connetix holds stock in the US. Card or invoice, Net 60 and tax-exempt for approved districts, on one purchase order alongside every other maker.

Connetix has given the standard range a new and improved look, with Pastel and Bright now sitting together rather than as separate lines. The packs build a library around the tubs.

Build your Connetix library →
04 Color & the Goethe Wheel
Net 60 for districts  ·  card or invoice otherwise  ·  quotes held 45 daysHow schools fund this →
A felted Jurassic small-world set with volcano, river and felt dinosaurs
Continued · part two of two

Life Science & Deep Time.

The specimen bottles, the wooden microscope, and the animals that came before us. The rest of this section continues on the next page.

See part two
STEAM · page 1 of 2
12Life Science & Deep Time
Part two continues with the specimen station, the microscope, and the dinosaurs.
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