STEM Resources

• Learn the basics of physics and engineering
• Strengthens analytical skills, resilience and creativity
• Guide book is loaded with instructions, photos, ideas and tips
• Includes 200 durable planks and two specially designed KEVA balls
• Simple, high-quality materials for countless hours of fun

Unleash Your Creative Power!

The Brackitz Pulley Set includes 77 pieces and directions for 8 contraptions - from a moving draw bridge to a 4-foot flying zip line to a bucket escalator. With pulleys, axles, hubs, hook, crank and string, engineers of all ages will have fun building and cranking contraptions that haul, lift, slide and move up/down. No hard hat required

The Mark Twain Life Science book helps students develop communication skills for STEM success.

STEM Labs for Life Science by Mark Twain includes 26 fun, integrated labs that help students understand concepts such as:

• life
• human body systems
• ecosystems

This middle school life science book encourages students to collaborate and communicate to solve real-world problems.

The STEM Labs for Life Science book for sixth–eighth grades features introductory materials to explain STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Correlated to meet current state standards, each lab combines the following essential STEM concepts:

• communication
• creativity
• teamwork
• critical thinking

The Mark Twain Publishing Company provides classroom decorations and supplemental books for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. These products are designed by leading educators and cover science, math, behavior management, history, government, language arts, fine arts, and social studies.

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!

Perfect for Makerspace!

This fourth grade teacher resource book includes:

• A year's worth of teacher lesson plans
• STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors
• Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson)
• Classroom-tested lessons

The STEAM Design Challenges in this book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grade 4 to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed.

These engaging STEAM lessons:

• Integrate the Next Generation Science Standards and national standards from other disciplines
• Enhance learning across various disciplines
• Facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios
• Promote critical thinking, analytical thinking, and reflective thinking
• Incorporate the Five Es Instructional Model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate)
• Are classroom tested

Engineering Design Process
The lessons in this book are intended to support the engineering design process in which teachers become a facilitator by encouraging and guiding students to work as a team to find a creative solution to a real-world problem without providing step-by-step instructions. Students are inspired to act as scientists and engineers through the use of sketches, diagrams, mathematical relationships, and literacy connections. By creating their very own models and products based on background information from their studies, students are immediately engaged through a meaningful, rewarding lesson.

More about the lessons
Each lesson begins by presenting students with a design challenge scenario in order to immediately excite students with a real-world situation that they are on a mission to solve. Students are then given a dilemma, mission, and blueprint design sheet and are asked to collaborate with team members to create several prototypes. Students present their prototypes to their teacher, construct their design, test their design, engage in a class discussion about their design, and then modify their design. Finally, teams create a justification piece in order to sell their new prototype (ex. persuasive letter, video, advertisement etc.).

About the Authors
The Steam Dreamers, a group of four classroom teachers, desired to create more interactive learning environments and science classrooms through student-centered problem-solving lessons. They created this collection of cross-curricular design challenge lessons to provide teachers and students with real-world scenarios that are driven by core learning standards and enriched through the inclusion of literacy and the arts.

Have you ever wanted to jump inside your favorite book or travel back in time? Augmented reality is making it possible to bring stories and history to life! This technology uses cameras and computer programs to add pictures and sound to the reality we see around us. People can use augmented reality in museums, hospitals, and factories. Learn all about this incredible technology!

As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores the latest and greatest in the world of technology. Fascinating text, vivid photos, and real-world examples bring these amazing breakthroughs to life!

The magic of gravity pushes the spheres through the Geomag gravity motor spiral. A magical and eco-friendly system that uses the invisible forces of attraction and repulsion to set in motion the models. Starting at the base of the system, the weight of the spheres creates a never-ending spiral that kickstarts a real gravity motor. This set contains 11 magnetic rods, 32 spheres and 126 plastic mechanical elements. Gravity is the innovative evolution of the Geomag mechanics line. Developed with expert players in mind, the new construction system is based on an innovative "gravity motor": this uses the weight of the Geomag spheres to Kickstart the mechanisms and movements of the Geomag mechanics structures. The motion is provided by the invisible forces of gravity and magnetism, without using electricity or batteries. The play experience is based on these fundamental principles of physics. Mechanics gravity is a STEM product that can truly stimulate curiosity and inspire to learn more about science.

• STEM-focused activity set challenges kids to build, test, and tweak their approaches to solving physics-based challenges
• Learn concepts of speed, angles, and distance during hands-on attempts at mastering included challenges
• Included activity booklet features challenges that scale and grow with your kids' own growing skill set
• Send balls flying through hoops and toward targets with kid-powered paddlewheel—no batteries, springs or rubber bands required