MindLabs Energy and Circuits Classroom Set

• Grades: 4+
• Number of Students: 14-28
• Number of Lessons: 8-10
• Content Hours: 6-7.5
• Additional Resources: How to Guide

Highlights:

MindLabs Energy and Circuits Class Set, simplifies your implementation of hands-on and engaging activities to teach STEM standards like energy, through engineering. Reduce material management headaches from dead batteries, LEDS or other defective or broken components!

Students can learn key concepts while creating and repairing their own circuits using virtual components. All it takes is a card set, a mobile app, and a mobile device or tablet – set-up and clean-up is cut to minutes. Classroom research has shown the activities to be engaging, effective and fun, making it a great way to get students excited about STEM subjects.

Grading has never been easier, a group report is automatically generated for later, while an activity log keeps you informed of classroom activity.

Features:

• Engages students in hands-on learning, together
• Teaches engineering concepts in a fun and interactive way
• Develops and documents problem-solving skills
• Promotes creativity and true collaboration
• Makes STEM subjects more accessible for students and educators
• Set-up and clean-up is easy!
• Innovative metrics on student activity empower key learning moments

Curriculum or Lesson Topics:

A proven, powerful educational tool, MindLabs helps students develop their problem-solving skills through interactive challenges and open-ended engineering design projects and help defeat the evil Dr. Stonebreaker. Students document their work, award kudos to classmates and share emotions with educators through tools directly integrated in the platform.

What's Included:

Hardware:

• (7) Card Deks each containing:
  • 1 Instruction Card
  • 6 Orange Idea Cards
  • 9 Green Component Cards
  • 2 Pink Cards
  • 5 Blue Character Cards

Software:

This product includes either a 1, 2, or 3-year license with access to the following:

• LMS Platform that includes the following features:
  • Assign and manage student work
  • Create and save engineering design projects
  • Online Notebook for educator feedback and review
  • Synchronous class newsfeed
  • Collaborative class discussion and response
  • Visibility to student-entered self regulation and emotional control inputs
  • Visibility to student-entered collaboration feedback
  • Comment on student work
• Professional Development Videos
• Class Slides and Lesson Plans

Additional Notes or Considerations:

How to solve, create and collaborate!

1. Open the app, Play as Guest and select Challenge or Create from the menu.
2. Find the blue character card in your card deck and point your mobile device at the card.
3. Progress through the Challenges to learn circuit and energy basics OR Create your own unique circuits, independently or collaborate with classmates.
4. Assemble cards picturing batteries, light bulbs, fans, and more into working circuits with augmented reality
5. Draw and connect wires on the screen of a mobile device to bring circuits to life
6. Explore energy concepts with animated vocabulary cards
7. Step-by-step lessons and slides help educators facilitate with ease
8. Review student work on an intuitive web platform

Download the FREE App in the App Store (iPad) or Google Play Store (phone or tablet).