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K'NEX Education - STEM Explorations: Swing Ride Building Set, 2 pieces

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STEM Explorations

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Brand K'NEX Education
Theme Education
Age Range (Description) Kid,Baby
Item Dimensions LxWxH 16.38 x 5.38 x 12.63 inches
Item Weight 2 Pounds

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  • 486 COLORFUL PIECES – The K’NEX Education STEM Explorations: Swing Ride Building Set includes 486 different brightly colored parts. Pieces include gears, variously sized connectors, and multiple styles of rods: short, long, straight and curved. These parts can be attached together to build simple structures or elaborate constructions, enhancing children’s imaginations and turning their ideas into working creations.
  • STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS – Kids can create a fully functional swing ride with this construction set. The package comes with a battery-powered motor that works on two AA batteries, bringing kids’ ideas to life. Aside from the swing, they can also build two other amusement park ride models with this toy set — a boom ride and a Ferris wheel. Let middle-school students learn as they have fun with this K’NEX Education building set.
  • EXPERIMENT GUIDE – The three included experiments contain complete details on conducting the hands-on, inquiry-based engineering projects based around the models and include information about the different parts and pieces. Parents can assist their children in the beginning until kids get the hang of it.
  • PROMOTES TEAMWORK – Specially designed for children ages 8 and up, this engineering set is more fun when constructed with friends. Students in grades 5‒9 can create the models alone or with two other classmates. Through teamwork, students will learn how mass affects speed, how to gear up and gear down, and much more! The set promotes camaraderie and the development of social skills, too.
  • STEAMagination : It’s the connection of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & math) with a child’s natural curiosity and creativity and it powers the fun of each and every K’NEX building set. Building with K’NEX puts children on a path towards a fundamental understanding of STEAM/STEM subjects.
  • LESSON PLANS AND EXPERIMENTS: All K’NEX Education sets come with either a comprehensive guide for teachers or an experiment guide for student-led learning. All lesson plans and experiment guides are written by expert educators and feature hands-on, inquiry-based projects that engage students in today’s busy classroom.
  • ALIGNED TO NATIONAL STANDARDS: K’NEX Education teacher guides and experiment guides are aligned to national educational standards, including ITEEA, NSES, NCTM, NGSS and Common Core.
  • REAL WORLD LEARNING: Study after study reveals that students have more success learning STEM subjects through activities related to the real world rather than reading about abstract concepts in textbooks. K’NEX Education sets allow students to build replicas of real-world machines and contraptions and through the lesson plans and experiments, gain a concrete understanding of the principles that make them work.

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Watch kids turn your living space into an amusement park with the K’NEX Education STEM Explorations Swing Ride Building Set.

Children can build a working swing ride with this educational building set. Each package contains 470 brightly colored pieces, including variously sized connectors, and multiple styles of rods: short, long, straight and curved . Parts can be connected together to create constructions that actually move, thanks to a battery-powered motor that uses two AA batteries. This engineering set can also be used for building two other rides — a boom ride and a Ferris wheel. Playing with this educational toy will unleash children’s imaginative skills by letting them build amazing structures with their own two hands.

This toy also promotes growth in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) subjects, thanks to its complex and cognitive approach to entertainment. Not only does it offer kids a fun playtime session — it also helps develop their natural curiosity and creativity, and lets them learn not only by thinking about concepts but through hands-on experience as well.

This set can also be used in schools, allowing students to find solutions and turn parts into whole constructions. An experiment guide walks children through the process of building the amusement park ride models. The manual contains complete details on the three inquiry-based engineering projects that are easy for kids to follow and implement. This STEAM toy is specially designed for children in grade levels 5‒9, ages 8 and up. It is best used by one to three children at a time, promoting camaraderie, teamwork, and social skills.

Let children have fun while learning with the K’NEX Education STEM Explorations Swing Ride Building Set.

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CHOKING HAZARD: Small Parts. Recommended for children ages 3 years and above.


From the manufacturer

STEM Swings into High Gear!

STEM Concepts Explored within the set
  • Relationship between Mass and Speed
  • Gearing Up and Gearing Down
  • Understanding Patterns
  • Gather, Analyze and Interpret Data
  • and more!

Stem Explorations

Swing Ride Building Set

Explore STEM concepts while building a motorized Swing Ride! Using the materials included in this set, middle-school aged children will be engaged and energized as they further their knowledge and understanding of the science, technology, engineering and math concepts associated with a real-life amusement park ride. The set includes over 470 parts plus a battery-powered motor for a single child or team of 2-3 children to build a working Swing Ride, plus 2 additional models: a Ferris Wheel and a Boom Ride (each model can be built one at a time). Once built, a downloadable booklet guides students through 3 hands-on, inquiry-based experiments on each of the models. The Experiment Guide is aligned to national STEM standards and is appropriate for grade levels 5-9. Requires 2 'AA' batteries, not included.

Lead Model: Swing Ride

K'NEXperiment #1: Slowing Down the Swing Ride. Your objective is to make and test predictions about how mass affects the speed of the ride. Do you think more mass will make the ride spin slower?

Additional Model: Ferris Wheel

K'NEXperiment #2: Hanging Above the Ground in a Ferris Wheel. Your objective is to determine if there is any pattern that might be used to demonstrate the changing height of a rider as the ride turns through several rotations.

Additional Model: Boom Ride

K'NEXperiment #3: Turn the Crank of the Boom Ride. Your objective is to investigate how different gear arrangements affect the distance the ride travels.

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    Customer reviews

    4.7 out of 5 stars
    4.7 out of 5
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    Customers like the quality, performance, and value of the science fundamentals kit. For example, they say it's a great gifting item and the motor works well. Some complain about missing pieces. Opinions are mixed on ease of use and appearance.

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    33 customers mention33 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the quality of the science fundamentals kit. They mention that it's a great toy and learning tool, and would make a good gift. Some say that it is one of the best lines of educational toys. Overall, customers are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.

    "The kid built it the day he got it. Great to have a toy that doesn’t involve a screen." Read more

    "...Overall this has been a fun toy for him to build and a break from the usual Lego. The motor feature definitely enhances it...." Read more

    "Holy cow this set is fun! This was our first K'nex motorized set purchase so I was a little nervous that it would be difficult but it was not...." Read more

    "Great product. I helped my 7 year old build this. He could do most on his own. Just a few instructions he needed my help...." Read more

    11 customers mention8 positive3 negative

    Customers like the performance of the science fundamentals kit. They mention that the motor works well, it turns the one gear fine, and is perfect all the way around. That said, some complain about the second gear.

    "...He's been playing with that merry go round for days now, and it works great. Nothing catches the parts, it flows smooth...." Read more

    "...Works really well and i love the fact that we can take it apart and build different things with it...." Read more

    "...us (2-3 hours over a few days) to build this and to see our final product not even work, we are not motivated to try the other two models...." Read more

    "...Worth the price. He put it together the first night and everything worked well...." Read more

    10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

    Customers find the science fundamentals kit a great gifting item.

    "...She is only 8 years old. It was a great gift for her." Read more

    "Creative, hands on activity that encourages user to think. Great gift for a young person." Read more

    "Perfect gift for my nephew." Read more

    "This arrived so quickly and made a wonderful Christmas gift" Read more

    7 customers mention7 positive0 negative

    Customers find the science fundamentals kit worth the price and a great buy.

    "...Over great buy. Very fun set!" Read more

    "...Well made and worth every penny. One of the best lines of educational toys.I purchased this for my granddaughter...." Read more

    "Got this for my nephew and he loves it. Worth the price. He put it together the first night and everything worked well...." Read more

    "...Works great after put together. Cheaper than legos!" Read more

    4 customers mention3 positive1 negative

    Customers like the motor in the science fundamentals kit. They say it spins fast, and it flows smoothly.

    "...caught a lot but once you get the hang of where they need to be, it spins very well...." Read more

    "...Nothing catches the parts, it flows smooth.So the only complaint is that some brackets were missing...." Read more

    "...pieces using other sets and got it together only to find the motor is not strong enough to turn the weight of the swings...." Read more

    "We bought this for our grandson and he loved it!! It really spin fast when it is all put together." Read more

    29 customers mention18 positive11 negative

    Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the science fundamentals kit. Some mention that it's easy and fun to put together, with good instructions. However, others say that the pieces are very tight fitting and hard to work with, and the directions can be a little complicated at times.

    "...The directions were clear cut and easy to understand, and the pieces were not too difficult to snap together...." Read more

    "...Just a few instructions he needed my help. The smaller pieces were kind if tough to snap together...." Read more

    "...I love that it included instructions to make other things. I'm going to wait until they get bored with this before assembling it differently...." Read more

    "...She liked it a lot, and started assembling it right away. It is difficult enough to keep.her occupied for a few hours, but the instructions were..." Read more

    6 customers mention4 positive2 negative

    Customers are mixed about the appearance of the science fundamentals kit. Some mention that it moves beautifully, looks perfect, and creative, while others say that it has a very limited design.

    "...It moves beautifully and looks perfect on my daughter's shelf, I don't think she will be making the others anytime soon...." Read more

    "It is very limited. Only couple designs to follow. I would not buy again" Read more

    "Creative, hands on activity that encourages user to think. Great gift for a young person." Read more

    "Haven't tried it yet but, it looks fun! I'm sure my nephew will love it." Read more

    14 customers mention0 positive14 negative

    Customers are dissatisfied with the missing pieces in the science fundamentals kit. They mention that motors and other parts are missing from the box, even when it's sealed and brand new. Customers also report incorrect parts counts and lack of customer service. They say the product is incomplete.

    "...We were missing a few pieces, but thankfully had the other box to pull from. I'll be contacting K'NEX Education and hoping they send us what we need." Read more

    "The parts are made we'll however the set was missing 2 small pieces...." Read more

    "Overall it’s great gift but there were missing pieces which makes it impossible to finish. My children were let down we couldn’t build it exactly...." Read more

    "...Missing 4 little green brackets for the merry-go-round projects (that was the first one he built), but we took them off other part that seemed to be..." Read more

    STEM Education Motorized Construction Set
    5 Stars
    STEM Education Motorized Construction Set
    This K'Nex Education set includes:Motor (rotates clockwise or counter clockwise)Large gear wheelAssorted plastic building pieces (round, half circle, stick, clip)Full color instructions for three projectsThe motor requires two AA batteries and a Phillips head screwdriver to install them (not included).The instruction book is just like a Lego book: pictures in color, no wordy procedures. This is ideal for the target audience (upper elementary and middle school ages).The three projects are: Swing Ride (pictured on box front), Ferris wheel (pictured on box back), and a Boom Ride. Additional instructions can be downloaded for free from: [...]This set teaches:How gears change the velocity of a motorHow weight changes velocityCalculating the circumference of the ride arc (using pi formula)The instruction book is also a workbook for the building projects. There are a series of four pages of scientific method questions, where you form a hypothesis, and then experiment. This was nicely done!If your kids like Snap Circuits or Lego Expert/Architecture projects, this will enjoy this set.
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    Virginie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Éducatif & Amusant
    Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2021
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Super kit
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente compra.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely kit
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    1.0 out of 5 stars No llegó completo, faltaron piezas.
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