STEM Resources

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!

Perfect for Makerspace!

This kindergarten teacher resource book includes:

• A year's worth of teacher lesson plans
• STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors
• Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson)
• Classroom-tested lessons

The STEAM Design Challenges in this book follow engineering practices to teach students in kindergarten to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed.

These engaging STEAM lessons:

• Integrate the Next Generation Science Standards and national standards from other disciplines
• Enhance learning across various disciplines
• Facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios
• Promote critical thinking, analytical thinking, and reflective thinking
• Incorporate the Five Es Instructional Model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate)
• Are classroom tested

Engineering Design Process
The lessons in this book are intended to support the engineering design process in which teachers become a facilitator by encouraging and guiding students to work as a team to find a creative solution to a real-world problem without providing step-by-step instructions. Students are inspired to act as scientists and engineers through the use of sketches, diagrams, mathematical relationships, and literacy connections. By creating their very own models and products based on background information from their studies, students are immediately engaged through a meaningful, rewarding lesson.

More about the lessons
Each lesson begins by presenting students with a design challenge scenario in order to immediately excite students with a real-world situation that they are on a mission to solve. Students are then given a dilemma, mission, and blueprint design sheet and are asked to collaborate with team members to create several prototypes. Students present their prototypes to their teacher, construct their design, test their design, engage in a class discussion about their design, and then modify their design. Finally, teams create a justification piece in order to sell their new prototype (ex. persuasive letter, video, advertisement etc.).

About the Authors
The Steam Dreamers, a group of four classroom teachers, desired to create more interactive learning environments and science classrooms through student-centered problem-solving lessons. They created this collection of cross-curricular design challenge lessons to provide teachers and students with real-world scenarios that are driven by core learning standards and enriched through the inclusion of literacy and the arts.

• Contains 180 unique, patented parts including 40 LEDs you won't find in any other toy brick set
• Patented technology enables you to build 3D circuits into your structure with no wires!
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires four 9V battery
• Ages 8 and up
• STEAM product that teaches how to build 3D series and parallel circuits to light your imaginative creations
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

• Contains 552 parts (96 unique patented parts including twelve 2-way LEDs you won't find in any other toy brick set)
• Build 8 different characters or objects that all light up in this leading edge STREAM product
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires four 9V battery
• Ages 8 and up
• Learn about series and parallel circuits, submarine technology, robotics, civil engineering, biology, architecture and more!
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

• Contains 100 unique, patented parts including 24 LEDs you won't find in any other toy brick set
• Patented technology enables you to build 3D circuits into your structure with no wires!
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires four 9V battery
• Ages 8 and up
• STEAM product that teaches how to build 3D series and parallel circuits to light your imaginative creations
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

Mini STEM-gineers use a kid-safe power drill to complete 20 space-themed challenges to create circuits that really work!

• Includes space circuit board, kid-safe power drill, 20 bolts, 1 battery pack, 12 short connectors, 5 long connectors 10 double-sided challenge cards, and guide
• Learn to light, spin simple motors, add momentary buttons and switches, and more
• Requires 3 AAA and 2 AA batteries (not included)
• Supports STEM: Introduce tools, encourage problem-solving, inspire creativity

The Brackitz Bugz Playpark has 47 pieces including a motorized vibrating bug and directions for building over 20 play parks and obstacles. Race your motorized bug through crazy obstacles like the Toppling Tower, Super Spinner or make your own. Every race and playpark combination is different - The possibilities are endless. No helmet required.

• Unlimited possibilities
• Design your own parks and bugz
• Three balls included
• Unique, Rotating Connect-Anywhere System
• All Brackitz sets work together for mix-n-match play!