The littleBits STEAM Student Set now has two expansion packs to support deeper learning and math and science concepts.

 

1. Both Expansion Packs support 1-3 students at a time and include 12 hours of instructional content for educators, which is presented in six lessons.
2. The Science and Math littleBits Expansion Packs add projects and parts to STEAM Student Sets.
3. They require a STEAM Student Set for use since they do not contain a power module.
4. The Science Expansion Pack is aligned to NGSS standards for Life and Earth Science.
5. The Math Expansion Pack is aligned to Common Core Math and ELA standards.
6. Each pack is geared towards students in Grades 3-5.


For educators who teach with a littleBits STEAM Student Set, the STEAM Student Set Expansion Packs can help extend your experiences with additional projects and content. This includes new projects for Bits you already have and newer littleBits modules—all of which will align with standards. We offer two STEAM Student Set Expansion Packs—one for science and one for math. You need the littleBits STEAM Student Set to use the expansion packs since students will be doing scaffolded activities. This means they build onto the previous experiments and neither expansion pack includes a power module.


Both packs do, however, include 12 hours of instructional content for educators in the form of six lessons each. They cover how to teach with littleBits and how students will develop creative confidence as they engage in hands-on learning through creating inventions to solve problems or model real-world concepts. With the Science Expansion Pack, teachers can cover Earth and Life Science. The lessons involve testing conductivity, modeling how organisms react to their environment, and designing cool alternative energy solutions among others.

an animal project built by a student using the littleBits modules and accessories


With the deep Math Expansion Pack, kids can delve into real-world applications of geometry, operations, measurement, and data with lessons that include creating ciphers, understanding logic, designing secure systems, and more. It’s important to note that the expansion packs are completely modular systems. This allows for various uses during the year with all components that typically come in the STEAM Student Set.


Each expansion pack comes with a purposefully selected group of additional Bits. The Science Expansion Pack comes with seven Bits and 22 accessories: one accelerometer, one sound trigger, one threshold, one Makey Makey, one wire, one long LED, and one bargraph. It also has its two mounting boards, five alligator clips, two strips (hook and loop), 12 shoes (hook and loop), and one battery clip. The Math Expansion Pack includes 11 bits and four accessories. The newer Bits are one button, one slide dimmer, one wire, one split, an OR, an XOR, two latches, two AND's, a battery clip, two mounting boards, and an XL mounting board.


a project students can build with the littleBits expansion kit involving circuits and wires


If you have any additional questions about the littleBits STEAM Student Set Expansion Packs, you can get in touch with us! Also, be sure to follow us on both Twitter and Instagram to keep up with all of our latest content. To get a littleBits Expansion Pack or any other littleBits kits to use in the classroom, visit our store! You can find other circuitry solutions there too. These include the SAM Labs kits, E-Blox kits, and more.