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Grades 1–3. Capture imaginations with this STEAM enrichment program that brings fairy tales to life! Designed with a focus on arts integration, each of the 12 one-hour lessons challenges learners to boost fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and hands-on creativity as they work together to build the characters and stage props needed to act out the different folktales highlighted in every unit. Comes complete with curriculum and materials for 30 students.

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Enchanted STEAM Storytelling
Grades 1–3. Capture imaginations with this STEAM enrichment program! From Jack and the Beanstalk to the golden touch of King Midas, BrickLAB Magic Beans brings fairy tales to life through thrilling engineering, language arts, and collaborative communication activities.

Designed with a focus on arts integration, each of the 12 one-hour lessons challenges learners to boost fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and hands-on creativity as they work together to build the characters and stage props needed to act out the different folktales highlighted in every unit. Combine manipulative-based engineering activities with a sprinkle of magic and let fiction fly in BrickLAB Magic Beans.

Product Features

• Complete program includes materials and curriculum
• Designed for up to 30 students
• Includes 12 one-hour activities
• BrickLAB bricks are 100% reusable; just clean and reuse again and again

Curriculum Topics:
1. Stone Slop
2. Aladdin and the Magic Pickle Jar
3. The June Bug and the Flea
4. The Prince Frog
5. Queen Midas
6. Jack and the Giant Sunflower
7. Claynocchio
8. Clinky Planky Tenbo
9. Three Silly Goats Gruff
10. The Elves and Young Stu Baker
11. Thaddeus Thumb
12. The Pig Who Cried Wolf

Each Activity Includes:

• Folktale Theater: Featured story read aloud
• Step-by-step build instructions
• Engineering challenge
• Optional English Language Arts extension
• Closing discussion

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
• Initiative and self-direction
• Social and cross-cultural skills

Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5: Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.

Next Generation Science Standards*

• K-2-ETS1-1: Engineering Design
• K-2-ETS1-2: Engineering Design

International Society for Technology in Education Standards

• ISTE-S.6.b: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.