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Grades 1–3. Using bricks to enhance hands-on learning, BrickLAB Brain Builders engages learners through extraordinary science and engineering challenges. This collaborative, social-emotional learning program is a surefire way to introduce interactive STEM learning into any environment. It contains 12 one-hour lessons, built-in extensions, a digital curriculum download, and all the materials needed. Comes complete with curriculum and materials for 30 students.

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Grades 1–3. Let's build better brains! Using bricks to enhance hands-on learning, BrickLAB Brain Builders engages learners through extraordinary science and engineering challenges. Whether they're using logic to determine patterns, problem solving to construct unique designs, or translating abstract ideas into concrete models, this collaborative, social-emotional learning program is a surefire way to introduce interactive STEM learning into any environment.

Containing 12 one-hour lessons, built-in extensions, a digital curriculum download, and all the materials to keep up to 30 learners engaged, BrickLAB Brain Builders is the perfect turn-key solution to start your students on a foundational STEM enrichment journey.

Product Features

• Complete program includes materials and curriculum
• Designed for up to 30 students
• Includes 12 one-hour activities

Curriculum Topics:
1. No Peeking
2. Huh?
3. Guess What!
4. I Love My Town
5. Citizenship
6. Living Things
7. Mirror, Mirror
8. Grow
9. Hide and Seek
10. Huff 'n' Puff
11. Load It Up
12. Keep Out

Each Activity Includes:

• Schedule
• Opening and closing discussion
• Topic background and vocabulary
• Step-by-step activity instructions
• Materials list

Recommended Settings:

• Summer camps
• Classrooms
• Out-of-school time programs
• Home learning

Tech Requirements:

• None

Professional Development:

• Includes a free 1/2-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $500+
• Includes a free 1-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $1,000+
• Additional training available for purchase by special request

21st-Century Skills:
Helps students develop a set of widely applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.

• Communication and collaboration
• Creativity and innovation
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Initiative and self-direction
• Productivity and accountability
• Social and cross-cultural skills

Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.1: Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools, such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.G.A.3: Recognize a line of symmetry on a 2-dimensional figure, such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.3: Gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood by asking and answering questions about what a speaker says.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.4: Successful presentation of information requires students to identify, organize, and express concepts and ideas. It may involve digital media and visual display of data to convey information and enhance audience understanding.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.5: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

Next Generation Science Standards*

• K-LS1-1: Energy Flow in Organisms
• K-2-ETS1-1: Engineering Design
• K-2-ETS1-2: Engineering Design
• 2-LS4-1: Biodiversity