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!

• Expansion set for Learning Resources' popular Code & Go Robot Mouse adds math activities to hands-on coding challenges
• Introduce fundamental math skills including addition, subtraction, number sequencing,and more
• Included Activity Guide features multiple levels of games and challenges that grow alongside kids' skills

• STEM-themed activity set teaches kids concepts of angles, trajectories, and other physics fundamentals during fun build-it-yourself challenges
• Kids send balls flying through the air and toward targets with the help of the included catapult
• Challenges with multiple difficulty levels help kids develop critical thinking and engineering skills through trial and error
• Kid-powered catapult requires no batteries, springs, or rubber bands

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

Perfect for Makerspace!

This third 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 3 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.

Students can design and build an endless variety of structures, from skyscrapers to submarines, dinosaurs to storybook characters using the kit's multi-use planks, rotating pieces and connecting hubs. 320 pieces.

• Kids test their engineering and design skills with this open-ended building set themed around vehicles and machines
• Special parts including wrecking ball, propeller, and treads open up numerous creative design possibilities
• Interchangeable parts work with all of Learning Resources' other Gears! Gears! Gears! sets

• Detect objects – and avoid them!
• Follow looping commands
• Navigate obstacle courses
• Follow black lines

• Your child will get to learn early STEM skills while playing and having fun. Botley teaches the basics of coding through active play, completely screen free. Perfect for promoting critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Completely screen free coding – no phone or tablet required. Botley has an easy-to-use remote programmer, which transmits your commands – and off he'll go!
• Botley can detect objects and be programmed to go around objects with if/then logic. He can also follow looping commands, take on obstacle courses, follow black lines and has hidden features to unlock!
• Botley's 45-piece set comes with a remote programmer, detachable robot arms, and 42 coding cards

We have mashed-up a marble run and a pool table to design the Smartivity Roller Coaster Marble Slide S.T.E.M. Educational D.I.Y. Toy kit. This project is based on the fundamentals of gravity, centrifugal force and banking. The kit contains all the elements needed to assemble the Roller Coaster Marble Slide.

A mix of slider game and pool table, this project is loads of fun to build and play. Once built, a kid can raise marbles along the wheel, and release them. As the marble slides down the track, they can aim the marble with the help of levers on the two sides. On the marble-pool part of the game, kids can place marbles, in such a way that the striker marble coming from the slide track hits them and the strike sends them in the corner or side pockets