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Learn It By Art™ Math Art Integration Kit, Numbers & Operations-Fractions, 5th Grade
$119.00
Designed with busy teachers in mind, these art integration kits include pre-prepped materials and detailed instructions to deliver 3 lessons to 30 students. The hands-on activities help improve tested math skills by using art to teach difficult concepts. These kits were developed in partnership with STEAM experts at Education Closet to provide comprehensive lesson plans, even for teachers without an art background. The teacher's guide is complete with lesson plans, pre- and post-assessments, differentiation tips, a curriculum map with arts integration ideas for future lessons, and a link to an online community to access videos and additional resources. Unique pre-prepped materials allow teachers to spend more time engaging with their students and teaching the lessons, and less time prepping. Materials include: color splash art cards, wood sticks, assorted construction paper, and jumbo stems.
STEAM Design Challenges, Grades 6-8
$19.99
Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!
Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!
This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:
The STEAM Design Challenges in this 152-page book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grades 6-8 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:
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 exite 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.
Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!
This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:
- A year's worth of teacher lesson plans
- STEAM design challenges that turn middle school students into inventors
- Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson)
- Classroom-tested lessons
The STEAM Design Challenges in this 152-page book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grades 6-8 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 exite 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.
Brackitz® Complete STEAM Center
$649.99
This is the BIG ONE! It gives you Structures, Pulleys & Cranks, Wheels & Axles, and Gears, Sprockets, & Chains all in one. It's ideal for library makerspaces and creative spaces in classrooms. It's big enough to share across classrooms and it's a BIG launching pad for special challenges and schoolwide design/build projects and contests.
$69.99
Learn to code and get drawing with STEAM-style robotics to create visual masterpieces—if you can code it, Artie 3000 can draw it!
- WiFi-enabled drawing robot
- 4 Modes of play: pre-programmed shapes, games, art for coloring, and freeform coding
- QuickStart guide & FAQs instruction cards
- 3 Project cards
- Drag and drop visual programming interface
- 4 Swappable, washable colored markers
- Requires 4AA batteries (not included)
How to Use:
- Download the app to any tablet.
- Use the software to easily drag and drop blocks of code into the command area, telling Artie 3000 to turn right or left, move forward or backward, and pick up or put down a pen.
- Test your code in the online simulator before setting Artie 3000 on a sheet of paper to draw the shape you've coded.
- Watch how-to videos and learn about everything Artie 3000 can do
Q-BA-MAZE™ 2.0 Deluxe Lights Set
$59.95
Building with Q-BA-MAZE sparks even more creativity when cubes light up as marbles race through! Add gleaming eyes to your dragon maze. Build a marble run that looks like a light bulb and glows like one too! The possibilities are endless and brilliant! The motion-activated cubes flash blue, red, yellow or white every time a marble hits the cube floor. Light-up cubes are battery operated; the batteries are included and can be replaced. All light-up cubes are single exit and compatible with all Q-BA-MAZE 2.0 sets. The Deluxe Set amps up the fun with 8 light-up cubes (2 of each color) that create stunning light show displays. The set also includes 4 straight-away rails and 52 standard cubes for expansive marble mazes and zooming marbles. 20 marbles complete the set.
- One of the most brilliant STEM toys for developing creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- An exciting introduction to the building blocks of engineering and math.
- Includes 8 light-up cubes, 4 rails, 52 colorful cubes and 20 steel marbles.
- Marbles are nickel plated steel balls. They are not magnets.
$24.95
Study of Organic Chemistry
This Bio-Organic STEAM kit will inspire the artist and scientist alike! Make your own rock candy, sugar cubes and the clean up with your own homemade soaps.
STEM Lessons & Challenges, Grade 1
$19.99
Develop your first grade students' creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.
Every grade 1 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.
STEM Lessons and Challenges fosters students' critical thinking, innovation, communication, and peer collaboration!
Every grade 1 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.
- The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.
- Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
- No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.
- Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
- Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
- Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
- A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
- Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
- A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.
- Marble Roller Coaster (Physical Science concept: Force and Motion)
- Natural Homes (Earth Science Concept: Natural Homes)
- Insect Catcher (Life Science Concept: Studying Insects)
STEM Lessons and Challenges fosters students' critical thinking, innovation, communication, and peer collaboration!
STEM Basics, Multicolor Craft Sticks (250)
$3.99
These everyday items provide you with the basic materials you need to build your next STEM creation. We provide the "basics," but the rest is up to you, your creativity, and your STEM skills.
STEM Starters, Zip-Line Racers
$14.99
This activity kit challenges students to create a propeller-powered device that travels along a string. The essential pieces, propellers, rubber bands, and string, are provided; it's up to the young scientists to determine the best materials to use in order to propel their racer effectively. Using the engineering design process students will create, evaluate, and redesign their simple machine until their objective is met. Includes enough materials to begin 6 racers. 38 pieces total.
$14.99
This activity kit challenges students to create a device that can protect an egg when dropped from an elevated position. The essential pieces, foam squares, a rubber bands, and plastic support rods, are provided; it's up to the young scientists to determine the best materials to use in order to protect their egg. Using the engineering design process students will create, evaluate, and redesign their simple structure until their objective is met. Includes enough materials to begin 6 egg drop devices. 60 pieces total.
Geomag™ Mechanics Magnetic Motion Set, 33 pieces
$24.99
This playset contains 1 indicator rod, 17 magnetic rods and 10 non-magnetic steel balls that let you connect and build whatever awesome creations you want. Make an architecturally sound bridge, a decorative star, or something wild and undefinable. The choice is up to you!
Create kinetic motion - with all the tools necessary to make your creations, spin, flip, rotate, and whirl, the Geomag Mechanics Construction Set is perfect for little engineers who want to design something exciting and kinetic! Contains 6 linear bars, 6 washers, 5 feet for washers, 1 tube, and 1 cone. 33 pcs total. Ages 5 and Up.
Please note: Contains STRONG MAGNETS. Keep away from sensitive devices such as credit cards, computers, magnetic media and medical devices like pacemakers.
STEM Basics, Wooden Corks (10)
$3.99
These everyday items provide you with the basic materials you need to build your next STEM creation. We provide the "basics," but the rest is up to you, your creativity, and your STEM skills.