STEM Resources

• 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.

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

Perfect for Makerspace!

This third 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 3 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.

Train young brains to think in multiple dimensions, transferring 2-D information into 3-D reality! Brain Builders has a 2-D diagram on one side of each card, and a photographic solution on the other. Brain Builders Junior features a photo of a fun, recognizable object to replicate. Each set includes 20 KEVA planks, 30 double-sided cards and instructions in a zippered carrying case.

The Mark Twain Life Science book helps students develop communication skills for STEM success.

STEM Labs for Life Science by Mark Twain includes 26 fun, integrated labs that help students understand concepts such as:

• life
• human body systems
• ecosystems

This middle school life science book encourages students to collaborate and communicate to solve real-world problems.

The STEM Labs for Life Science book for sixth–eighth grades features introductory materials to explain STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Correlated to meet current state standards, each lab combines the following essential STEM concepts:

• communication
• creativity
• teamwork
• critical thinking

The Mark Twain Publishing Company provides classroom decorations and supplemental books for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. These products are designed by leading educators and cover science, math, behavior management, history, government, language arts, fine arts, and social studies.

There are 72 different projects to build, and all parts are compatible with our Power BloxTM line to add even more fun to your building experience. Some of the fun projects you will build include a nerve tester and hand crank generator backup power source.

35 pieces, including a maze, hand-crank generator,press switch, push-button switch, reed switch, lamp,LEDs, alarm, and more!

• Great addition to any STEM program.
• Learn all about electricity, current and voltage.
• Discover how lights, alarms, motors, switches and more work all while building fun projects.
• Compatible with other building brick sets.
• Build 72 different projects.
• Contains 35 parts
• Requires 3 "AA" batteries
• Ages 8 and up.

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.

• 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.