Brackitz™ Inventor Building Set – 100 Pieces

Description

The Brackitz™ Inventor Building Set represents a thoughtful approach to STEM learning through play. Created by a dad for his children, Brackitz’s STEM building toys connect at any angle to make your children’s structural visions come alive in ways generic blocks never could! This 100-piece set includes 22 long planks (4-3/5″), 22 short planks (2-1/4″), and 56 colorful connectors in six different varieties, including unique motion connectors that allow children to create structures with moving parts.

Unlike traditional building blocks that restrict connections to specific angles, the unique, connect-anywhere brackitz attach to traditional planks at any angle, enabling builders of all ages to construct everything from small-scale builds to larger-than-life, gravity-defying, 3-D structures. The pieces are manufactured from durable, non-toxic plastic that’s free of BPA, lead, and phthalates, making them safe for children ages 3 and up. These large well-made pieces go together easily and stay together creating unique and sturdy 3D structures. Perfect for small hands.

How Homeschoolers Can Use This Product

For homeschooling families, the Brackitz Inventor set offers remarkable versatility across multiple subjects and age ranges. Engineering sets like Brackitz take things one step further, introducing and providing hands-on experience with STEM skills, principles, and vocabulary including gravity, symmetry, balance, stability, measurement, units, addition, subtraction, and more.

Mathematics Integration: Children naturally encounter geometry concepts as they explore angles, symmetry, and spatial relationships. Counting pieces, measuring structures, and calculating ratios between different connector types provide practical arithmetic practice. Advanced students can explore concepts like structural engineering principles and load distribution.

Science Applications: The set serves as an excellent tool for demonstrating physics principles. Students can build ramps to explore motion and gravity, create bridges to test load-bearing capacity, or construct towers to investigate stability and center of mass. Students can build a ski jump that will launch a small ball to consistently hit a target the farthest distance possible from the jump ramp, turning play into physics experiments.

Engineering Design Process: The open-ended nature encourages children to identify problems, brainstorm solutions, prototype, test, and improve their designs. One customer notes that children learn through trial and error, while another highlights how it encourages creativity, perfectly embodying the engineering mindset.

Multi-Level Learning: One customer with children ages 5 and 9 noted “this set has enough parts that both of them are able to create without having to fight over parts that they wanted”, making it ideal for multi-child homeschool environments. Younger children focus on basic construction and fine motor development, while older students can tackle complex architectural challenges.

Cross-Curricular Connections: Use the set to build historical structures during history lessons, create models of molecular structures for chemistry, or construct habitat dioramas for biology. The pieces can even support literature studies by building scenes from favorite books.

Independent and Collaborative Learning: The set works equally well for solo exploration and group projects. This toy is awesome because it doesn’t come with a single creation goal in mind as a lot of today’s building sets are. Instead it allows the kids to decide what creations they want to make. This freedom supports both independent discovery and collaborative problem-solving when siblings work together.

Assessment Opportunities: Parents can observe spatial reasoning development, problem-solving approaches, and perseverance through challenges. The tangible nature of the builds makes it easy to document learning progress through photos and discussions about design choices.

The Brackitz system includes access to free, downloadable curriculum materials aligned to educational standards, providing structured lesson plans for families who prefer guided activities alongside free-building time.