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Are you stuck with the brain you're born with, or can you improve it and expand its abilities? Would you believe that your brain can make you see motion that isn't really there? Hosted by Jason Silva, this episode of Brain Games puts your brain to the ultimate test with a series of interactive games and fascinating experiments that reveal its hidden mental shortcuts, and we reveal the surprising ways to give your brain a performance boost.
2) Blue-Bot
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Blue-Bot is a simple robot that can operate on its own or via Bluetooth controlled by an Android, iOS, Mac, or Windows device. Blue-Bot is transparent so that students can see all of the parts that make it work. Blue-Bot allows students to learn programming skills. Kits brought to you by grant funding of the PENCIL LP STEAM Lending Library. Recommended Grade Level: PK-2
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Use the Alphabet Cards in conjunction with Bee-Bot or Blue-Bot to create activities that develop and enhance language, reading, and matching skills. Each card is the length of a Bee-Bot/Blue-Bot step, so may be used to outline literacy paths for the robots. Recommended Grade Level: PK-2
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Use the CVC Word Cards in conjunction with Bee-Bot or Blue-Bot to create activities that develop and enhance language, reading, and matching skills. Each card is the length of a Bee-Bot/Blue-Bot step, so may be used to outline literacy paths for the robots. Recommended Grade Level: PK-2
7) Pro bot
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Pro-Bot is a sophisticated robot cleverly disguised as a race car, offering students a hands-on experience with coding and robotic controls. Insert a pen and Pro-Bot draws as it moves. Pro-Bot is a great way for students to learn about angles and geometry. Kits brought to you by grant funding of the PENCIL LP STEAM Lending Library. Recommended Grade Level: 3-5
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Players attempt to cover as much of the board with their pieces as possible, blockading opponents while expanding their territory.
"Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking, encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces,...
10) Scrabble
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Players form interlocking words, crossword fashion, on the board using letter tiles of different values. Each player competes for high score by taking advantage of the letter tiles, as well as the premium squares on the board.
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A guide to learning American Sign Language, describing and illustrating the manual alphabet, as well as signs for numbers, people, animals, food and drink, clothing, colors, sports, feelings, and other subjects, and including a selection of sign language games and activities.
12) The Hearmees
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Listen up, Hearmees Builders, we need to expand our city! Behind his screen, the boss claws pictures. All the other players listen closely and guess what object is meant to be built. Whenever a Hearmees has heard the right object, he has the chance to add one new building to his neighborhood. Who will finish their neighborhood first?
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The classic game of Charades designed especially for kids. Younger players can use the colorful picture cards, no reading required, and act out toothbrush, jump, cat, chicken, etc. Older children can read the simple words and phrases then act out fun things like eating spaghetti, playing a guitar, blowing bubbles, etc. Each card contains three different charades offering a total of 450 charades players can act out.
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"Kids explore, defend, and battle their way through early math lessons to learn concepts from arithmetic and geometry to estimation, measurement, and more. Learn addition and subtraction ;Discover basic geometry ; Practice time and money math ; Develop estimation skills."--Publisher description.