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Building Literacy: Create a Short Story

Building Literacy: Create a Short Story

Students will develop a short story using their knowledge of literary elements.

Building Literacy: Design a Comic Book

Building Literacy: Design a Comic Book

Students will create their own comics including stories, dialogue, images, and page designs.

Building Literacy: Develop a Play

Building Literacy: Develop a Play

Students will write, cast, and produce an original one-act play and host a performance.

Class Pet

Class Pet

Students will research different types of class pets and use that information to design their own robotic class pet.

Clean Water and Sanitation

Clean Water and Sanitation

Students will engineer their own filtration system.

Coding a Classification System

Coding a Classification System

Students will develop a coding application to organize data.

Design a Specialty Truck

Design a Specialty Truck

Students will research different types of trucks and use the information to design their own truck.

Design Your Own Escape Room

Design Your Own Escape Room

Students will plan, design, and execute their own escape room game.

Designing a Board Game

Designing a Board Game

Students will create a board game including game mechanics, play pieces, and story.

Engineering 3D Printed Instruments

Engineering 3D Printed Instruments

Students will learn about sound and design their own 3D printed instrument.

Engineering an Assistive Game Controller

Engineering an Assistive Game Controller

Students will research disabilities and design an assistive controller.

Engineering for Hazardous Weather: Create a Rescue Kit

Engineering for Hazardous Weather: Create a Rescue Kit

Students will research different types of weather and use that information to design and put together their own model rescue kits.

Engineering for Hazardous Weather: Taking Flood Control to New Heights

Engineering for Hazardous Weather: Taking Flood Control to New Heights

Students will engineer a lifted house to prepare for severe flooding.

Fashion for Function: Smart Wearables

Fashion for Function: Smart Wearables

Students will design a unique piece of wearable technology.

Geometric Self-Watering Planter

Geometric Self-Watering Planter

Students will design and construct a planter.

Jurassic Kids: Design a Dinosaur

Jurassic Kids: Design a Dinosaur

Students will research different types of dinosaurs and use that information to design their own species and habitat.

Mars Colony: Engineering Expedition

Mars Colony: Engineering Expedition

Students will create a Mars colony including solutions for habitat, communication, and transportation.

Prosthetics

Prosthetics

Students will design and develop a prosthetic device.

Robotics: Robotic Amusement Park

Robotics: Robotic Amusement Park

Students will design, build, and test their own amusement park ride.

Rube Goldberg Machines

Rube Goldberg Machines

Students will engineer their own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Space Systems: Create a Model of an Eclipse

Space Systems: Create a Model of an Eclipse

Design, print, and test a model of the Earth-Sun-Moon system that can be used to illustrate solar and lunar eclipses.

Space Systems: Engineer a Telescope

Space Systems: Engineer a Telescope

Students will design, print, and test a telescope that can be used to make celestial observations.

Space Systems: Light and Shadows

Space Systems: Light and Shadows

Students will design a device to track time.

Storytelling Through the Ages

Storytelling Through the Ages

Students will create stories and then program a robot to perform/tell their story using both audio and visual elements.

The Phys. Ed iBlock

The Phys. Ed iBlock

Students will research the basic principles of physical education and then design their own original sports game, rulebook, and scoring guide.

Tiny Houses

Tiny Houses

Students will explore energy consumption and engineer a tiny house model.

iBlocks Project Based Learning (PBL) is now available in Spanish!

Now available in Spanish!

We can provide Spanish versions of any iBlock in our library upon request.

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New iBlocks Coming Soon!

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Out-of-the-box STEM learning with Rube Goldberg Machines

We’ve teamed up with Rube Goldberg Inc. to create a series of special project based learning iBlocks!

Our Rube Goldberg Machine iBlocks scaffold the creation of your Rube Goldberg Machine in the classroom by providing the learning content, materials, training — and even the opportunity for schools to enter their inventions in the official Rube Goldberg Machine Contest!

As students build their contraption, they’ll learn about teamwork, push through failures, and practice STEM hands-on.

Out-of-the-box STEM learning with Rube Goldberg Machines

Our approach encourages exploration, creativity, and design-thinking. We believe students learn best by doing.

Students lead the way while teachers guide and coach. There will be trial and error, testing and re-testing, and even the occasional dead end—but every obstacle becomes a springboard for new ideas, deeper understanding, and lasting success.