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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!
Discovery Center
Discovery Center
1 box KEVA Planks - total of 400 maple planks
2 sets of KEVA Brain Builders
1 KEVA Maker Bot Maze (not borrowed very often)
Tips
Tips
Leave the KEVA Planks out for students to explore
Post a challenge for students to create (many examples on Pinterest) or use the KEVA Brain Builders
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 Schools
Instructions and Tips http://www.kevaplanks.com/instructions/
5 STEM Challenges with KEVA Planks https://frugalfun4boys.com/2015/08/10/five-engineering-challenges-with-keva-planks/
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
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
SRES 2nd graders built farm equipment for the Eastern Woodlands tribe using KEVA and Brainflakes.
Pollination lesson featuring a 2D flower and bee
PES 3rd graders recreating the Great Wall of China
OES student used KEVA planks, brain flakes, and LEGO to complete a stop motion project.
PVES Students had some creative fun with KEVA and green screen during their Super Hero themed STEM day.
MVES 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
KEVA Planks - 400 maple planks - $126 (REMC SAVE) - this is the best deal
KEVA Planks - 3D Challenge Cards - $12 educator price
KEVA Planks - 10 colored balls with case - $14 educator price
Distance Learning Kit: 10x KEVA Maple 20 with Drawstring Pouch - $80 educator price
If you order from the KEVA site, you can register as an educator to get up to 20% off your orders
KEVA Plank resources from Mindeware
KEVA Brainbuilders& BrainBuilders Junior (the cards are useful, the 20 pine planks in each kit - not so much) - $31.95
Recommend the maple planks as they are higher quality (the alternative is pine planks and they are not of the same quality) If you order from a site such as Amazon and think "this is cheaper" then it's probably the pine planks and not the maple.
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