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Description
Grades K–1. This program takes learners on an eco-conscious, student-driven STEAM journey. This collection explores boats, trains, bikes, and cars. 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.
Product Details
An Eco-Conscious STEAM Journey
Grades K–1. BrickLAB STEAMventures: Transportation Collection takes learners on an eco-conscious, student-driven STEAM journey. In this collection, they'll explore:
- Boats: Thrill K–1st graders as they speed off into the surf to combat ocean pollution as the captain of a boat.
- Trains: Hop aboard the transcontinental railroad to discover steam locomotives and life on the railroad.
- Bikes: Explore the strength of pedal-powered bicycles and zero-emission transportation.
- Cars: Challenge learners to check their mirrors as they investigate how engineers are designing sustainable cars and trucks for a renewable future.
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: Transportation 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.1.MD.A.2: Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.
- 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.OA.A.1: Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.3: Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.
- 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.RI.1.3: Describe the connection between 2 individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information 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.K.3: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.1: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
Next Generation Science Standards*
- K-ESS3-1: Natural Resources
- K-ESS3-3: Humans & Their Environment