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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What an amazing giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity!! Where is the email subscriber link supposed to take us? It seems to be linking back to itself… Thanks again!
scroll down to the bottom of this post and enter in the box at the bottom.
When we click on the link in “If you’re reading this as an email subscriber, click here to enter.” it takes us to the exact same page as before. I assume there is not a special section for subscribers.
right — the Rafflecopter section for the giveaway doesn’t show up in the email which is why you must enter online.
This is incredible!!! This looks like the perfect way to get my kids writing. Thank you for sharing!
My kids do this every day, minus the cool software program. Lego is my favorite for imagination, direction following, spatial learning, etc., etc. Not sure we need anymore Legos in the house but I’d love to see this in person…
What a great idea. Legos are already in the house.. kids working/ playing together..even better! ♥
My daughter would love this kit! I agree, it is so hard to get kids interested in writing. Thanks for the giveaway.