NEW LEGO® Education Kit Get Kids Writing
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I’m so excited to tell you about this today – it’s StoryStarter, a new LEGO Education kit to get kids imagining, working together, creating stories, and publishing.
Like you, I’m always trying to find new ways to entice kids (mine included) to write. Which is why the LEGO® Education StoryStarter kits make me do a happy dance.
Of course, I wish I could give you each one to use with your students and children. Since I can’t do that, I can give one of you an entire set, software, and curriculum valued at $234.95– scroll down for details. 🙂
Lego Education Kit
The Storystarter Kit contains sorting trays, baseplates, activity spinners, organizational stickers, gobs of specialty bricks and mini-figures plus a curriculum guide and StoryVisualizer software.
Let me explain the process for using the kit.
1. Play and Plan Your LEGO Story
The kids used lessons from the LEGO® Education StoryStarter Curriculum Pack for their stories. The curriculum contains 24 project-based activities, all correlated to Common Core Standards.
Together the girls worked to plan out the sequence of events. Then, they built each scene with the kit’s LEGO bricks.
2. Create and Shoot Photos of Scenes
Once each scene was ready, they used my handy-dandy photo backdrop hack –a 3-fold poster board clipped with white craft paper, and took pictures.
Here is a scene from a backyard circus story. Cute, right?
3. Write and Publish Using StoryVisualizer Software
Upload your photos into the program on the computer. Then, create your own comic book story. It’s as easy as drag, drop, and write!
Even easier, an iPad app is coming out soon! Then you’ll be able to do everything on the iPad.
Above is a screen shot of the StoryVisualizer program.
Ta-da!
Stories are written. Books are published. Writing fun happened!
What’s not to love?
Enter to Win StoryStarter Kit, Software & Curriculum
GIVEAWAY CLOSED
What do you think?
Would this LEGO Education kit inspire your kids to write as it did mine?
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I am always looking for new and creative ways to get my RTI students excited about writing. The boys are often times harder to really engage. This would be a fabulous way to get the boys and the girls excited about creating and writing!!! What a great idea!
We are a Lego family! It would be an awesome addition to our
Collection!
This is AWESOME!!! Thank you for telling us about it!!! 😀
Having trouble entering this on iphone. My children would love this they both love Lego’s but hate to write.
I have read about this kit at Lego Education and want it so very badly. I have spoken with the administration at my son’s school and have been given permission to start a Lego Club that will meet after school for the upper elementary grades. I am thrilled about the possibilities – but just have not had the funds to put into action some of these great plans. My son did his very first stop-motion animation Lego movie this summer and I am hoping to help the kids in the club do a book and maybe even their own stop-motion movie.