Toys Apps Games – Page 2 – STEMAZing Systems Thinking

Goldie Blox

The goal of GoldieBlox is to get girls building. By tapping into girls strong verbal skills, their story + construction sets bolster confidence in spatial skills while giving young inventors the tools they need to build and create amazing things. By designing construction toys from the female perspective, they aim to disrupt the pink aisle…

Toys From Trash

#STEMontheCheap at its best! Toys from Trash is an incredible collection of projects made with inexpensive materials. You will have to consider the minds-on ways you will use these projects to engage students but most work well with our IDEAS Engineering Journal. Harness the power of play! Toys from Trash Philosophy: Our core belief is…

Toys From Trash Ball Bounce

Turn a water bottle into a ball launcher with some simple supplies.

Cooperative Games

(Rubber band and string game included) Cooperative games help children develop the essential skills of cooperation, communication, empathy, and conflict resolution by giving them an opportunity to work together toward a common goal. These games require the skills of everyone in the group, not of just one or two people.

On the Dot

On the Dot reinforces spatial relations and visual discrimination. See spots like never before! Try to arrange four transparent squares so they perfectly match the pattern shown on the dots card. Flip, rotate, and overlap the squares to make the “spot on” copy.

Blink

BLINK is the lightning-fast game where two players race to be the first to play all of their cards. How fast can you match? NOTE: BLINK can be played using IOTA cards!

Iota

IOTA reinforces spatial relations, visual discrimination, and strategic thinking. Look, see, play and score… a lot! Add cards to a grid, making sure the attributes of color, shape, and number are either all the same or all different across the line. Sounds easy but as the grid expands, so do the possibilities.

Konane

Konane is a traditional game from Hawaii which is quite simple to learn but takes a lifetime to master! Start small on a 5×6 gameboard and work up from there.

13 Pennies

13 Pennies is a fantastic strategy game which can take lots of twists and turns. Pennies (smashed or not) can be replaced with any bits and pieces – bingo chips, rocks, pieces of paper, etc.

SET

Race or collaboratively find a SET of three cards where each attribute (color, shape, number, and shading) is either all the same value or all different values on each card. SET builds cognitive, logical, and spatial reasoning skills as well as visual perception skills while playing a game. How to Play SET Video Tutorial on…