Enchanted STEAM Storytelling

Capture imaginations with this STEAM enrichment program! From Jack and the Beanstalk to the golden touch of King Midas, BrickLAB Magic Beans brings fairy tales to life through thrilling engineering, language arts and collaborative communication activities. Designed with a focus on arts integration, each of the 12, one-hour lessons challenges learners to boost fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and hands-on creativity as they work together to build the characters and stage props needed to act out the different folktales highlighted in every unit. Combine manipulative-based engineering activities with a sprinkle of magic and let fiction fly in BrickLAB Magic Beans.

Grades: 1-3
Students: Up to 30
Contact Hours: 12+

Subject Targets:

Engineering Design, Art/STEAM, English Language Arts Connections

Recommended Settings:

• Summer Camps
• Classrooms
• Before & After-School Programs
• Homeschools

Each Activity Includes:

• Folktale Theater: Featured Story Read Aloud
• Step-By-Step Build Instructions
• Engineering Challenge
• Optional English Language Arts Extension
• Closing Discussion
  

Curriculum Topics:

1. Stone Slop
2. Aladdin and the Magic Pickle Jar
3. The June Bug and the Flea
4. The Prince Frog
5. Queen Midas
6. Jack and the Giant Sunflower
7. Claynocchio
8. Clinky Planky Tenbo
9. Three Silly Goats Gruff
10. The Elves and Young Stu Baker
11. Thaddeus Thumb
12. The Pig Who Cried Wolf

Reusability and Expansion:

• 100% Reusable: BrickLAB bricks are 100% reusable. Just clean and reuse again and again.
• BrickLAB Program Expansion: Already have PCS Edventures BrickLAB bricks? You can easily expand your program by adding new BrickLAB curriculum titles.
• BrickLAB Tech
• BrickLAB Core
• BrickLAB STEM Foundations
• BrickLAB Zoo
• BrickLAB Famous Architecture
• BrickLAB Genetics

Product Orientation:

• Half-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $500+
• One-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $1000+
• Additional training available for purchase

Complete Program Includes:

BrickLAB Magic Beans comes with all the supplies needed for 30 students to complete 12 one-hour activities:

• Instructor Guide: 1
• Student Build Books: 15
• Curriculum Digital Download: 1
• BrickLAB bricks: 6500+
• Brick Separator: 1
• Mesh Bag (for cleaning bricks): 1
• 12 Fabulously Funny Folktale Plays by Justin Martin: 5
• Storage Tubs: 2

Printed Curriculum Copy Includes:

• Instructor Guide: 1
• Student Build Books: 15
• 12 Fabulously Funny Folktale Plays by Justin Martin: 5

Curriculum Digital Download includes:

Instructor Guide only, which includes master copies of all student pages.

Habits of Mind:

16 thinking habits developed by Art Costa and Bena Kallick to empower students to succeed in a 21st century learning environment.

• Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
• Creating, Imagining, Innovating
• Finding Humor
• Listening with Understanding and Empathy
• Managing Impulsivity
• Persisting
• Taking Responsible Risks
• Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
• Thinking Flexibly
• Thinking Interdependently

21st Century Skills:

A set of widely-applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.

• Communication and Collaboration
• Creativity and Innovation
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills

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Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

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Next Generation Science Standards:*

• NGSS K-2-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
• NGSS K-2-ETS1-2 Engineering Design

* Next Generation Science Standards and NGSS is a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.

International Society for Technology in Education:

• ISTE-S.6.b Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

ISTE Standards for Students, ©2016, ISTE® (International Society for Technology in Education), iste.org. All rights reserved. ISTE was not involved in the production of this product and does not endorse it.