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Grades K–1. Take students on a journey through the skies to explore the history and engineering of human flight. They'll explore hot-air balloons, airplanes, helicopters, and rockets. As a student-driven kit containing manipulatives, grade-appropriate curriculum, and extensions, this program hinges around family engagement and a STEAM-themed activity book brimming with multi-subject integration. Comes complete with curriculum and materials for 10 students.

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BrickLAB STEAMventures: Powered by Curiosity
Grades K–1. BrickLAB STEAMventures: Flight Collection takes students on a journey through the skies to explore the history and engineering of human flight. In this collection, they'll explore:

• Hot-Air Balloons: Take flight with the inventors and innovators of the past and explore the science, history, and engineering design behind hot air balloons.
• Airplanes: Investigate who invented the airplane, learn the secrets that let them fly, and discover how airplanes are used today.
• Helicopters: Examine the unique features of helicopters and discover what makes them the perfect flying machine for search and rescue, traffic monitoring, space exploration, and more.
• Rockets: Investigate space with early astronomers; learn about the scientists, engineers, and mathematicians that make spaceflight possible; and discover the secrets that let rockets fly.

BrickLAB STEAMventures: Fight Collection enriches grades K–1 learning no matter the environment it's introduced in. As a student-driven kit containing manipulatives, grade-appropriate curriculum, and optional extensions, this program hinges around family engagement and a STEAM-themed activity book brimming with multi-subject integration. Whether it be at home, in the classroom, after school, or through a hybrid setting, this program is innovating education and helping to strengthen the partnership between educators and parents. BrickLAB STEAMventures is individually kitted to keep students safe, provide flexibility for educators, and work with or without technology. With hands-on builds, problem-solving challenges, critical and creative thinking activities, arts connections, and so much more, BrickLAB STEAMventures: Fight Collection is your surefire way to give your youngest students a positive STEAM experience.

Product Features

• Complete program includes materials and curriculum
• Includes 16 one-hour activities
• Designed for 10 students
• BrickLAB bricks are 100% reusable; just clean and reuse again and again

Each Book Includes:

• Key terms
• Step-by-step brick build
• Science and social studies content
• Math and literacy activities
• Art integration
• Brick engineering challenge
• Unplugged and digital choice boards for family engagement

Recommended Settings:

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

Tech Requirements:

• Optional online extensions require a Wi-Fi®-connected device

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.

• Creativity and innovation
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Initiative and self-direction
• Productivity and accountability

Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A: Know number names and the count sequence.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4: Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to 3 categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.A.1: Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.C.4: Add within 100, including adding a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number, and adding a 2-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning uses. Understand that in adding 2-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6: Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten; decomposing a number leading to a ten; using the relationship between addition and subtraction; and creating equivalent but easier or known sums.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.B: Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.E: Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.4: Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.5: Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.10: With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.10: With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.8: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Next Generation Science Standards*

• K-PS2-2: Forces and Motion
• Core Idea ESS1.A: The Universe and Its Stars