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The Strawbees STEAM Classroom Kit is the ultimate hands-on learning toolbox, designed to inspire an entire classroom of young creators. With over 4,000 pieces, this kit provides everything students need to collaborate, experiment, and engineer together. Students can bring bold ideas to life at scale. The color-coded connectors and flexible straws make complex builds intuitive and approachable, while still challenging learners to think critically and creatively. To support educators, the kit is paired with Strawbees Classroom, a digital hub filled with standards-aligned lessons and activities. Designed for collaboration, the Classroom Kit fosters teamwork, communication, and problem-solving as students plan, build, test and re-imagine their creations.
Features
Educational Features:
Standards-Aligned Lessons:
The Strawbees Classroom digital platform provides dozens of lessons that align with Common Core, NGSS, and UN Sustainable Development Goals
Professional Development:
The digital platform also offers guides, webinars, and articles to help teachers, librarians, and educators get started and maximize the learning experience
Collaborative Learning:
The kit is designed to encourage students to work together, fostering communication and problem-solving as they plan, build, test, and revise their creations
Reusable Materials:
All the materials are durable and reusable, allowing students to disassemble their projects and start a new one, which is ideal for a classroom setting
Uses and Possibilities:
Structures:
Build everything from small towers to large cityscapes and pyramid structures
Mechanical Inventions:
Create moving mechanical cranes, arms, and other machines
Robotics (with add-ons):
With additional kits and micro:bit boards, students can add coding and robotic capabilities to their projects, making them interactive with programmble servo motors
Prototyping:
The kit's materials are excellent for rapid prototyping, letting students quickly bring an idea to life