Curiosity STEM Bottle - Intermediate Tier
Childrens science kits
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- Program and school year
- FTC-PEP · 2026-27
- Rule pack
- step-up-ftc-pep-2026-27 · v1.0.1
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- Official general rule
- Source freshness
- Review due · Low
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Product description
<b>Curiosity STEM Bottle – Intermediate Tier</b><br><br>The Curiosity STEM Bottle takes the classic Assassin’s Teapot idea and makes it transparent. Instead of hiding the trick behind ceramic walls, the entire mechanism is visible: two chambers, two air holes, and a pour that depends entirely on how air and pressure behave. Cover one hole with your thumb and only one liquid flows; uncover it and the balance shifts instantly. It looks like a magic trick, but it’s really just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does.<br><br>The Intermediate Tier builds on the core experience by adding more sleeves, each one carrying a mathematical story of its own. The Asteroids sleeve wraps the bottle in a looping, edge-to-edge universe inspired by classic wraparound topology. The Braids & Knots sleeve hints at Alexander’s theorem, which shows how any knot can be represented as a braid. And the P3M1 sleeve returns as a nod to the 17 wallpaper symmetry groups that tile the plane. Along with the expanded lesson sheet, the set connects the bottle’s pressure-controlled pour to ideas from Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Pascal—offering real scientific insight without pretending to be formal lab equipment.<br><br><b>What’s Inside</b><br><ul><li>1 dual-chamber <b>Curiosity STEM Bottle</b> with independent air-flow control.</li><li><b>Asteroids</b> wraparound-topology sleeve.</li><li><b>Braids & Knots</b> sleeve inspired by Alexander’s theorem.</li><li><b>P3M1</b> symmetry sleeve based on one of the 17 planar groups.</li><li>A downloadable lesson sheet expanding on fluid dynamics, hydrostatics, and the classical principles discovered by Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Pascal—plus a clear walkthrough of the pressure trick behind the Assassin’s Teapot.</li></ul>The Intermediate Tier turns the Curiosity STEM Bottle into a mathematical object as well as a scientific one—something to study, display, puzzle over, and endlessly tilt, test, and question.
Source evidence
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- Catalog
- A Curiosity Box
- Source type
- Search
- Link status
- Stepup product link
- Enrichment confidence
- Unknown
Official policy source
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- Publisher
- Step Up For Students
- Applies to
- FTC-PEP · 2026-27
- Effective dates
- Jul 1, 2026 — Jun 30, 2027
- Source last modified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Reviewed by Navigator
- Jul 23, 2026
- Review due
- Aug 14, 2026
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