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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Oh wow! I have high hopes for this! I would desperately love to win it. My son has several learning disabilities (dyslexia, inability to track while reading, SPD and auditory processing disorder). He hates reading and writing and I am always looking for ways to make it more fun for him since he has to work so very hard. I am really excited about the potential this product holds. Thank you for writing such an amazing review. I really feel like I know what to expect from this product 🙂
Neat….. my boys could really use this… boys are so hard to keep focused with learning but this is a fun hands on activity that they would love…
What a great idea! My kids love Legos & this is such a great inspiration to tie them in with their writing.
What an awesome idea! For any classroom of any age or level!! THIS is what I’m talkin’ ’bout!!! 😀
I was at both workshops this past school year (lego & virtual story writing) and it’s amazing!! Even my special needs kids at school enjoyed the tactile activity:)