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Grades K–1. This program invites learners to discover where our food comes from. In this collection, they'll explore gardens, trees, farms, and seeds. Teaming with hands-on builds, problem-solving challenges, critical and creative thinking activities, arts connections, and more, each activity book pairs manipulatives and grade-appropriate resources with optional extensions for more STEAM-engagement. Comes complete with curriculum and materials for 10 students.

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Discover Where Our Food Comes From
Grades K–1. The BrickLAB STEAMventures: Food Collection program invites learners to open their front door and travel the world to discover where our food comes from. In this collection, they'll explore:

• Gardens: Dip your trowel into the world of cultivation with a strawberry-themed deep-dive into the fruits and vegetables that grow in our gardens.
• Trees: Swing from the tree-tops on an adventure to learn about trees, fruits, and how the chocolate we love comes from the trunk of a very special tree.
• Farms: Jump onto the seat of your tractor and meet the hard-working farmers and cutting-edge technologies that keep our plates piled high with potatoes.
• Seeds: Put on your chef's hat and savor the flavors of Native American cuisine as you explore seed saving and corn's culinary heritage.

Teaming with hands-on builds, problem-solving challenges, critical and creative thinking activities, arts connections, and so much more, each 40-page activity book pairs reusable manipulatives and grade-appropriate educator resources with optional extensions for more STEAM-engagement. BrickLAB STEAMventures is individually kitted to keep students safe, provide flexibility for educators, and work with or without technology. Built around a family-focused, multi-subject approach to hands-on engagement, the BrickLAB STEAMventures: Food 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.1: Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
• 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 1 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.B.2: Understand that the 2 digits of a 2-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.
• 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 used. 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: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.1.A: Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.D: Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.E: Decode 2-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details 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.

Next Generation Science Standards*

• K-ESS2-2: Humans and Their Environment
• K-LS1-1: Energy Flow in Organisms
• 1-LS1-2: Growth and Development
• LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships