STEM Resources

The Island is a chapter in the E-Blox® novelette "Earth One"

Follow the adventures of Seymour and his robot Robyn as he investigates a mysterious light in the distant ocean horizon. The storybook includes QR codes that create an interactive learning environment using online resources. Models are built in several parts of the story with the over 100 included parts, further enhancing the learning experience.

Qobo brings STEAM education to early learners!

It is an interactive robot that teaches coding and programming to children ages three to eight. Its card-based programming architecture and game tutorials teaches children coding, develops logical thinking and problem solving.

Qobo is easy to use, intuitive and entertaining – keeping children engaged in learning. The cards, combined sequentially, give Qobo tasks to complete in order to find prizes!

Qobo comes with 30 different programming cards that combine in numerous ways, and 16 different lessons, in varying difficulty, making lessons challenging and fun!

Includes:

• 1 Qobo
• 1 USB Charging Cable
• 1 Map
• 30 Programming Cards
• 16 Free Lessons

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

Perfect for Makerspace!

This fifth grade 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 Grade 5 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 128 parts
• Build whatever creative structures come to your imagination…the possibilities are limitless!
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires 12 "AA" batteries
• Ages 8 and up
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

Have you ever wished that technology could think on its own and make your life easier? It can! Artificial intelligence helps us do big jobs, connect with new friends, and much more. Read about the present and future of artificial intelligence, from its dangers and benefits to how it helps us at home, in schools and everywhere else.

As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores the latest and greatest in the world of technology. Fascinating text, vivid photos, and real-world examples bring these amazing breakthroughs to life!

Do you know what is challenging about buying the right building kit for your young engineer? You have to buy more than one educational toy to get all the benefits of STEM learning and none of them work with each other. We realized this and are delighted to announce the Mini STEAM Center! This wonderfully designed toy has 204 pieces, a reusable plastic container and comes with all of our most popular series: Inventor, Pulleys & Cranks, Wheels & Axles, and Gears, Sprockets, & Chains all in one. All Brackitz pieces work together so your young builder to create a multitude of different projects.It is ideal for any parent wanting to be a creative hero!

Mini STEAM Center has large planks, connectors, and parts for driving, pulleys, and gears. Brackitz' connect-anywhere design is great for improving fine motor skills as well as gross motor skills. Keep your kids happy for hours while learning and playing.

Mini STEAM Center offers hours of STEM learning while playing, designed to promote problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Brackitz is designed with open-ended play in mind - you are not limited to just certain builds that are in the instructions. We have been inspiring artists, makers, scientists, designers, innovators in the home and classroom....a trusted choice by parents and educators alike.

Full STEAM ahead! (pun intended!)

• Design and build a roller coaster
• Create your own Rube-Goldberg Machine
• Build eye-hand coordination and create a fort!
• Make a snack pulley
• Build a toy car
• Create mazes
• Learn the alphabet by BUILDING LETTERS!

Brackitz is the only construction toy that lets you design any driving machine you can imagine. Anything.

The Brackitz Driver Set includes 43 pieces and directions for ten driving machines - from a spinning gyro-copter to a space rover to a wind-up blaster. With wheels, axles, hubs and rubber-band drivetrains, engineers of all ages can design and build machines that spin, explore space, fly through the air, or drive crazy fast. No driver's license required!

• 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.