Harness the power of triangles with this kit! Create triangles and learn to launch items and build with them. Feed your inner engineer with these three fun activities.
This kit includes:
Activity Binder
- Librarian Instructions
- Inventory Sheet
- Booklist/Introduction
- Picture of trunk organization
- Launching with Levers
- Target template
- Tubes and Towers
- Triangle Power
- Prompts for activities
- More Engineering Resources/Consumables list
- Extension activity ideas
- Engineering supplement
- A Building and Crashing Game
- Inquiry Teaching Supports ALL Children’s STEM Learning
- Problem Solving: Engineering Experiences in Early Childhood
- Parent surveys
- 3 laminated activity sheets
Books
- Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
- Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
- The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
- How Do You Lift a Lion? by Robert Wells
- Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins
- Architecture Shapes by Michael J. Crosbie
- Move It: Motion, Forces, and You by Adrienne Mason
- The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- Roberto, the Insect Architect by Nina Laden
- Amazing Buildings by Kate Hayden
- Homes Around the World by Max More
Launching Levers
- Small plastic containers
- Measuring tapes
- Pom-poms of various sizes
- Large craft sticks
- Wooden cylinders of various sizes
Tubes and Towers
- Numerous tubes of various sizes with holes
- Birch paper straws
To Be Provided by Borrowing Library*
- Scotch tape
- Bag of large rectangle pieces of cardstock
- Bag of small rectangle pieces of cardstock
*Some of these materials are provided in the kit but may be recommended to purchase as they will not be restocked by NMSL in the future.
Please see the attached user manual for larger images, manuals, and inventory.
Each trunk contains an activity binder as well as activity materials. Some materials will be up to you to provide but most of the materials have been included; please read through the activity binder and user guide to determine which materials you’ll need to provide.
Also included in the activity binder is a complete inventory of the activity trunk.
Please verify inventory is correct when you return the trunk and sign and date the inventory. If any materials are missing, please notify us as soon as possible, and make note of it on the inventory.
There are also parent/caregiver surveys we would like you to provide after each program using the trunk. Please make additional copies as needed.
Your completed inventory and any completed surveys should be placed inside the trunk and returned with the trunk to the New Mexico State Library.