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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…
Read MoreToys 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…
Read MoreToys From Trash Ball Bounce
Turn a water bottle into a ball launcher with some simple supplies.
Read MoreCooperative 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreBlink
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!
Read MoreIota
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.
Read MoreKonane
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.
Read More13 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.
Read MoreSET
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…
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