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Engage your students with KEVA planks, a simple building block that sparks creative thinking through design in your classroom. KEVA Plank challenges can be used at any grade level and in any subject. The possibilities are endless! KEVA is a small, family owned business located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia!
Materials Available for Checkout
Materials Available for Checkout
6 box KEVA Planks - total of 400 maple planks
Tips
Tips
Leave the KEVA Planks out for students to explore
Bridge Challenge
With one plank touching the table, build the widest structure
Ping Pong Ball Challenge
Create a structure to deliver a ping pong ball into a cup 12 inches away; advanced - change the ball direction 90°
Resources
Resources
KEVA Planks Educator's Guide - (82 page .pdf) - packed full of lesson ideas for many curriculum area
KEVA Planks - STEM Projects (4 page .pdf)
KEVA Plank Challenge Cards (18 page .pdf)
Google Folder full of KEVA Planks lesson resources - shared by Eric Grabo - Holt Public School
Follow KEVA on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook to get regular inspiration and watch for their MakerSpace Monday challenges. #kevamakerspace
KEVA planks building basics tutorial
General Tips & Ideas
General Tips & Ideas
Build 3D & 2D designs, contraptions, or use like dominoes.
Can be combined with other manipulatives or toys like legos.
Use them in a stop motion or green screen project.
KEVA Challenges (2 pages).pdfMore Lesson Ideas
More Lesson Ideas
2nd graders built farm equipment for the Eastern Woodlands tribe using KEVA and Brainflakes.
Pollination lesson featuring a 2D flower and bee
3rd graders recreating the Great Wall of China
Stop motion project.
Students had some creative fun with KEVA and green screen during their Super Hero themed STEM day.
2nd graders created trees after reading poems about apple trees and trees with falling leaves.
Credit: https://sites.google.com/rockingham.k12.va.us/stem/keva-planks for resources used on this site
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