• Dishwasher safe, easily disinfected
• Ideal For Classrooms
• Lesson Plans Included
• Plastic bins for easy storage

This is the BIG ONE! It gives you Structures, Pulleys & Cranks, Wheels & Axles, and Gears, Sprockets, & Chains all in one. It’s ideal for libraries, makerspaces, and creative spaces in classrooms. It’s big enough to share across classrooms and it’s a BIG launching pad for special challenges and schoolwide design/build projects and contests.  Ideal for 6-8 students. 

Lesson Plans for Gears coming Spring 2020!

1224 PIECES FOR CREATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE PLAY

Brackitz award-winning, open-ended building toys are unique in their ability to connect anywhere, at any angle, enabling kids to design and build 3D structures, animals, spaceships, machines that spin and more using the planks, rotating pieces, and connecting hubs. The STEAM Center includes all Brackitz Structures, Wheels & Axles, Gears, Sprockets & Chains, and Pulleys in Cranks.

LESSON PLANS INCLUDED

The Brackitz Structures Set comes with 25 free downloadable lesson plans and activities for PreK-6 written by expert educators. Lesson plans include clear learning objectives, vocabulary, literature references and standards alignments (NGSS, ECERS-R). Each lesson has easy set-up instructions including whole class and group activities, challenges, discussion topics and ideas for differentiating instruction.

HANDS-ON LEARNING

Students can solve real-world challenges using creativity, the design process, and a problem-based learning approach as they build. With a strong emphasis on STEM and STEAM learning skills, this educational toy helps children develop a solid foundation in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics while having fun!

IDEAL FOR CLASSROOMS

These large, durable pieces go together easily and stay together creating unique structures that are extremely sturdy. Great for young students to work with. It comes in a convenient container for hassle-free cleanup and storage.

SAFE FOR CHILDREN

Rigorously tested for safety, these pieces are Certified Non-Toxic, BPA-Free, Lead-Free and Phthalates-Free. Supports a group of four to six students, age three years and older.