Engineering

The Strawbees STEAM kits provide students with a complete solution for hands-on design, engineering, and programming. Each kit is comprised of reusable and recyclable straws and connectors that fit together so kids can build structures and robotic mechanisms. Teachers can also access lesson plans, activities, and more on the Strawbees Classroom platform!

Each of the kits comes with its own compatible set of curriculum. Following detailed project guides displayed in 3D on the UKIT app, students can explore STEM topics in a very hands-on way. Plus, in the lessons, educators can cover everything from force and motion to earth science and natural disasters with hands-on building and collaboration.

The Whybricks kit is very affordable and designed for children as young as eight years old. It ships in an organized box with 2,100 pieces—enough for kids to divide up among as many as 20 of them. The system is built on the premise of using hands-on building blocks to help students develop and it includes both in-depth project guides

Once she settles in to the new school year, Terri is committed to advancing STEAM opportunities for her students. She has a number of lesson plans in mind, including challenging students to find similarities and differences in projects each of them design, helping students deepen their understanding of curricular objectives, and boosting SEL strength.

Whether new to robotics or simply eyeing a new challenge, Marty can be used in all types of STEAM lessons, including both individually and collaboratively. With the Marty, students can learn all sorts of STEAM concepts, like electronics, mechanical engineering, and even some of the more advanced coding languages!

The hands-on, physical skills students build through experiences are commonly referred to as hard skills and they’re certainly valuable to their futures. What about soft skills, though? What are they, why are they so widely talked about, and what can K-12 teachers do to help make sure their students develop these beneficial skills, too?

There are two Premium Kits that make up the latest Discover Drones STEM solutions. They’re simply referred to as the 7-pack and the 10-pack. Each of the kits includes the same drones that have been found in previous Discover Drones kits. What makes them unique, however, is that they’re catered directly to middle and high school students.

The Robo Wunderkind line allows early education students to get hands-on with building and programming robots. Designed for kids as young as five years old, each of the three kits feature constructible components for building robots. Once they build the robot they want, kids can program them using one of three mobile apps.

Designed for MakerEd experiences in Grades 3 and up, the Mayku FormBox helps spark creative product design, on-the-fly fixes, and innovative design thinking. Oh, and it’s on sale now through Feb. 28! Keep reading to find out how to access this limited-time deal on a versatile tool for design and maker education.

We are pleased to announce we’ve awarded our tech grant for October to Josh Jennings, who’s a high school teacher in the Florence County School District 3! Josh helps head up their Panther CODE (Creating Opportunities for Developing Engineers) program after school, which was established to give some underrepresented students more exposure to STEM.