The complete Strawbees building solution for hands-on and collaborative learning in your class including Strawbees Classroom digital lessons.
Access to Strawbees Classroom
STEAM building solution
4,360 pieces
100+ challenge cards
Storage solution
This kit includes some key features:
Access to Strawbees Classroom – start exploring Strawbees Classroom, Strawbees' digital platform made for teachers, by teachers. Their curriculum-aligned, class-ready lessons help teachers quickly and easily to get started.
STEAM School Kit – Strawbees' most massive construction kit providing over 4000 pieces enough for an entire classroom of students. Build a large cityscape, a large rollercoaster track for a ball to run through, a large pyramid structure taller than you, and create moving mechanical arms and claws. The building set comes with 5 different precut straw sizes and 4 color-coded connectors in a storage box with pull-out material trays to get started building!
Pocketful of Ideas Card Deck – 100+ story-based challenges. Win a prize with your students and enter our monthly #strawbeeschallenge.
1 X STEAM School Kit
Connectors – 1-leg Blue × 1024
Connectors – 2-leg Yellow × 512
Connectors – 3-leg Green × 512
Connectors – 5-leg Red × 256
Building straws – 240mm Blue × 512
Building straws – 205mm Green × 360
Building straws – 112mm Pink × 512
Building straws – 80mm Orange × 256
Building straws – 48mm Yellow × 256
Clips × 160
Posters × 2
Device/App/OS Compatibility:
Let your ideas to take shape with writing, drawing, and building over instructions! This kit includes 400 pieces.
Practice storytelling and problem-solving with the Imagination Kit. Pick a challenge, sketch your idea in the imagination sketchbook then build your solution to complete the story.
Create an amusement park, shears for sheep, a sports arena, a pollution-fighting device. Discover these and more with 100+ challenges in the card deck!
Features:
Different Ways to Create – sketch, write, or build your ideas.
Two Levels – two card decks, two types of challenges for different levels of engagement.
100+ Challenges, Endless Solutions – no instructions opens up to developing problem-solving skills.
Creative Thinking skills – see a problem from a new perspective and find new ways to solve a challenge by making multiple solutions.
All materials are custom-made, durable, and reusable – finish building, disassemble, and begin a new project.
What's Included:
Building straws – 208mm Bendable Green × 50
Building straws – 240mm Yellow × 50
Building straws – 240mm Blue × 50
Connectors – 1-leg White × 130
Connectors – 2-leg White × 64
Connectors – 3-leg White × 32
Connectors – 5-leg White × 24
Pocketful of Ideas Card Deck × 1
Activity booklet × 1
Device/App/OS Compatibility:
The Strawbees Pocketful of Ideas card deck includes over 100 challenges broken down into two deck types! The Inventor deck gives simple inspiration while the Crazy Inventor deck is a story with a problem that you solve.
Pick a card and create something by drawing, building with Strawbees, or adding any material you can find. Construct a new home for your pet fish or build a submarine as solutions to the story!
Add this card deck to other Strawbees kits.
Features:
Two Levels – two card decks, two types of challenges for different levels of engagement.
100+ Challenges, Endless Solutions – no instructions opens up to developing problem-solving skills.
Creative Thinking skills – see a problem from a new perspective and find new ways to solve a challenge by making multiple solutions.
Device/App/OS Compatibility:
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Please only reserve the amount of items needed for your students.
Items will be delivered and picked up by the BCIU delivery service and will be subject to their established delivery schedule and district building pickup and drop-off locations.
Items can be borrowed for a maximum of two weeks (extensions can be requested).
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