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Strawbees Products

STEAM Starter Kit

This is an introductory toolbox designed for educators in learning environments and young makers at home who are looking for a STEM solution.

This kit is a great introduction to the world of STEM education and offers a fun and engaging way to learn about science, technology, engineering, art, and math.

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230 pcs
Up to 5 Students
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Age 6-14 | Grade K-8

The STEAM Starter kit is a personal-sized building set with 230 pieces to build a mechanical crane and arm. The building set comes with 5 different precut straw sizes and 4 color-coded connectors organized in the box. Includes a colorful and inspirational poster!

Creative Thinking, Imaginative Inventing

Build creative thinking skills and invent anything you can imagine:

  • Play = Learning – extend learning at home for young makers and build creative thinking skills to invent anything you can imagine.
  • Self-Oriented Learning – an introduction for teachers, librarians, and STEAM educators to follow along with resources on Strawbees Classroom and professional development experiences.
  • All materials are custom-made, durable, and reusable – finish building, disassemble, and begin a new project.
4 Color-coded Connectors
Straws in 5 Lengths
Designed with Mathematical Thinking
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Students and Group Dynamics

Use a STEAM Starter Kit for a single or a pair of students at a time. We recommend pairing students together when creating any project made from a lesson or activity resource in the Classroom. 

Use it as a personal teacher demo kit for building projects along with your students. This kit is also an excellent size for following along in Strawbees professional development sessions.

Basic Operations
Experiment with Movement
Explore Geometric Shapes
Modular
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Teacher Support

We recognize every learning space is unique and that is why we offer a range of equally excellent materials and resources, balancing personalization and structure without compromising quality.

We strive to reach a large variety of learning ecosystems globally and designed this kit for a wide variety of audience members. Listed below are suggestions of how to implement this kit in different environments to be mix-and-matched depending on the space and conditions.

School Classrooms
Libraries
Makerspaces
Afterschool Programs
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What's Included

  • Connectors – 1-leg Blue × 37
  • Connectors – 2-leg Yellow × 18
  • Connectors – 3-leg Green × 25
  • Connectors – 5-leg Red × 13
  • Building straws – 240mm Blue × 25
  • Building straws – 205mm Green × 12
  • Building straws – 112mm Pink × 30
  • Building straws – 80mm Orange × 36
  • Building straws – 48mm Yellow × 34
  • Poster × 1
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Hear from Our Customers

Hear directly from teachers about why their students love Strawbees and how it benefits them.

“I show them little ways of doing things and you can see the lightbulb is coming on as they're starting to get more and more creative.”
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Christine Laurent
Educator & Founder of Dawn of Imagination, Quebec, Canada
“Straws can transform lives. It can be that simple. The tools that we bring in, we don't know how it's going to affect kids. But every kid finds their way through something that is common in straws.”
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Chris Colley
Educational Consultant with LEARN, Quebec, Canada
“Strawbees did change how I view education in a very good way, and myself as a teacher. It's a message that I want to get out to more teachers and students.”
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Abigail Yancey
English as a Second Language Teacher, North Carolina, US
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Curriculum Aligned Resources

You will have access to a full range of lessons, activities and explorations as well as different ways to navigate through it, highlighting different learning strategies and expected outcomes you can directly distribute to students via Strawbees Classroom.

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Course

Geometry to Engineering Design

Explore the merger of geometric design into functional prototypes

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Intro: Temperate Forest Biome

Craft a critter living in an area experiencing many seasons throughout the year.

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Activtiy

Make a Mechanical Arm

Try this collapsible grabber made from scissor linkages.

Want Something More Creative?

Check our Imagination Kit!

Use a STEAM Starter Kit for a single or a pair of students at a time. We recommend pairing students together when creating any project made from a lesson or activity resource in the Classroom. 

Use it as a personal teacher demo kit for building projects along with your students. This kit is also an excellent size for following along in Strawbees professional development sessions.

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Add-ons
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Ready to Start?

Bring Strawbees Classroom Kit to Your Classroom!

You can speak to our sales team if you'd like to bring Strawbees into your entire school or district, or you can purchase one directly from our shop.

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