Beautiful Discovery STEAM Box

Beautiful Discovery is a monthly STEAM kit that teaches through the patterns found in nature, such as spirals, stripes, flocks and branching. Each box mixes math, art, science and coding, and includes real natural specimens alongside the materials for modeling them, so kids can hold a pine cone or a sand dollar while they work out why it is shaped the way it is. A typical box contains real natural objects, art supplies with instructions, origami, an eco-game and drag-and-drop block coding for building computer models of what is in the box. More than 90 videos support the lessons. One recent box on ecosystem balance came with a real sand dollar, a paper starfish mobile, colored pencils and a game about tipping an ecosystem. Another, on golden-ratio spirals, used a real daisy and pine cones to explain why spiral counts follow Fibonacci numbers. The company says ages 9 and up get the most out of it, with lessons that work for an adult, a teen alone, or a preteen with an adult. US shipping is free. Boxes ship from the United States, and Beautiful Discovery says it ships worldwide, with international shipping charged. Pay monthly or prepay three, six or twelve months. It suits homeschoolers, teachers and curious families.