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Teacher Guide |  Resource Kit


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Materials Kits

C's Blast Packs are the quick and easy way to get started teaching engineering. Bring engineering into the classroom without the hassle of rounding up materials. Time saving and convenient, these kits are out of this world!

 


General Engineering
Engineering Career Bingo Blast Pack! Engineering Career Bingo!

This is a fantastic and fun pre and post assessment on engineering careers. By targeting your questions, you will find out if students have learned about the different engineering career choices available. In this game, you may find that there is more than one answer to several questions. Depending on the level of your students, you can either ask them to choose the "best" answer or play a less structured game and let them choose any answer that may be correct. Feel free to add or substitute your own questions to tailor the game to fit your needs. Have fun and don't forget to give away fabulous prizes!

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Question Pack
  • 15 Laminated Bingo Cards (for teams of two students)
  • 200 Bingo Chips

30 Student Classroom Pack - $24.95


Music/Electrical Engineering
Amplified Kazoo Blast Pack! Amplified Kazoo Blast Pack!

An electrical engineering activity that allows students to amplify a kazoo using regular computer speakers or headphones. Students are introduced to a kazoo and a piezo transducer. Along the way, they learn to test, evaluate and solder. For more ways to integrate music, click here.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Kazoo
  • Piezo Transducer
  • 1/8" Mono Phone Jack

* Solder and a soldering iron not included.

Single Pack - $18.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $164


Chemical Engineering
Reactionary Rockets Blast Pack! Reactionary Rockets Blast Pack!

This learning experience incorporates the scientific method, chemistry and physical science. Students must determine the best “recipe” for launching Alka Seltzer® rockets the greatest distance. Exploring the possibilities gives the students opportunities to practice observing, communicating, measuring, inferring, predicting, controlling variables and collecting and analyzing data.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Effervescing tablets
  • Film canister
  • Graduated cylinder
  • Thermometer
  • 1” PVC elbow
  • Measuring tape

**Water and warm water source not included

Single Pack - $19.50

30 Student Classroom Pack - $169


Stretching the Truth Blast Pack!

This learning experience gets to the truth about chewing gum and its “stretchability” with scientific analysis, experimental design, variables and graphing.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Chewing gum
  • Timer
  • Scissors
  • Graph paper
  • Disposable gloves
  • Measuring tape

**Balance and calculator not included

Single Pack - $18.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $164


Mechanical Engineering
How Do I Hover? Blast Pack! How Do I Hover? Blast Pack!

This experience enables students to engage in an open inquiry where process skills and higher order thinking are needed to complete the challenge. Students work cooperatively to design a small, table-top hovercraft that behaves in the same manner as its real-world counterpart.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Balloons
  • Tape
  • Yarn
  • Paper Clips
  • Foil
  • Pipe cleaners
  • CD
  • Pop-up top
  • Clay
  • Straws
  • Learning log

Single Pack - $19.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $169


The Indy Car Blast Pack! Indy Car Blast Pack!

The Indy Car is a mechanical engineering activity that emphasizes working cooperatively while developing problem solving and critical thinking skills. A limited number of materials are made available therefore providing a certain level of difficulty that the student must overcome to complete the challenge of constructing their own indy car.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Eraser
  • Index Cards
  • Paper Clips
  • Tape measure
  • Cardboard
  • Tape
  • Straws

Single Pack - $12.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $139


Totally Tops Blast Pack! Totally Tops Blast Pack!

This mechanical engineering activity has students move through three phases of inquiry as they learn about tops. Students gain critical insight into how tops work in order to design and test their own version of a top!

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Measuring Tape
  • Nails
  • Masking Tape
  • Compass
  • Paper Clips
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Washers
  • String
  • Stop Watch/Timer
  • Toothpicks
  • Emery board
  • Skewers
  • Pennies
  • Newsprint
  • Clay
  • Rubber Bands
  • Foam Core
  • Markers
  • Dowels
  • Paper Plate
  • Student Sheet

Single Pack - $19.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $169


The Mark of Success Blast Pack! The Mark of Success Blast Pack!

Numbers make descriptions more exact. When you measure the mass of an object, or its volume or length, you obtain a number in units. But just how accurate is this number? This project is designed to allow students to explore the terms accuracy and precision.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Clay
  • Rope
  • Tape measure
  • Learning log
  • Paper
  • Markers

Single Pack - $12.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $139


Civil Engineering
Pasta Bridges Blast Pack! Pasta Bridges Blast Pack!

This experience challenges students to construct a bridge using uncooked pasta. Students will apply knowledge of weight, torque, force and compression. This pack includes:

  • Pasta
  • Masking tape
  • Scissors
  • Weights
  • Measuring tape
  • Large paper clips
  • Washers
  • Film canisters
**Balance not included

Single Pack - $9.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $120


10 Second Tower Blast Pack! Ten Second Tower Blast Pack!

The Ten Second Tower is a civil engineering activity that challenges students to construct the tallest free standing tower possible using only one piece of construction paper. The problem solving process will open up a students creative energy and enhance their engagement in the classroom.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Student Sheets
  • Construction Paper
  • 2 Pair of Scissors
  • Tape
  • Measuring Tape

Single Pack - $7.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $89


The Two Feet Feat Blast Pack! The Two Feet Feat Blast Pack!

The Two Feet Feat is a civil engineering activity that challenges students to construct a strong two foot tower from straws and pins in a limited amount of time.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Student Sheets
  • 2 Pair of Scissors
  • Tape
  • Straws
  • Large Paper Clips
  • Film Canisters
  • Washers
  • Straight Pins

Single Pack - $7.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $89


Bolstering Books Blast Pack! Bolstering Books Blast Pack!

This experience challenges students to construct a paper tube platform that will
hold a book six inches off a surface. The action of solving problems will open up the creative process for students and enhance the engagement of students in the classroom.

This pack includes:

  • Teacher Guide
  • Student Sheets
  • Paper
  • 2 Pair of scissors
  • 2 Pencils
  • Measuring tape

**Books not included

Single Pack - $7.95

30 Student Classroom Pack - $89


 


 


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