K'NEX Education ‒ STEM Explorations: Roller Coaster Building Set – 546 Pieces – Ages 8+ Construction Education Toy
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- 546 ASSORTED PIECES This KNEX Education set includes 546 parts, plus a battery-powered motor, for a single child or a team of two to three children building a working roller coaster. Two additional models are also included in this set a ramp and a half-pipe which can be built one at a time. The set requires two AA batteries, which are not included.
- OFFERS HANDS-ON LEARNING KNEX Education models offer proactive opportunities for introducing children to scientific inquiry, investigation, and experimentation. Inquiry-based lessons challenge young learners as they build, investigate, problem-solve, discuss, and evaluate scientific and design principles in action.
- EXPERIMENT GUIDE Once a ride is built, an activity booklet guides learners through three hands-on, inquiry-based experiments. This experiment guide aligns with the national STEM standards and is designed for grades 59. Students will learn about the relationships between time, distance, speed, and more!
- PROMOTES TEAMWORK This educational engineering set is more fun when constructed with friends. One to three kids can put their heads together and figure out the structure, exchanging ideas as they tinker with the bits and parts, and solving the model faster through teamwork. Theyll build camaraderie and develop social skills as they play.
- STEAMagination: Its the connection of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & math) with a childs natural curiosity and creativity and it powers the fun of each and every KNEX building set. Building with KNEX puts children on a path towards a fundamental understanding of STEAM/STEM subjects.
- LESSON PLANS AND EXPERIMENTS: All KNEX 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 todays busy classroom.
- ALIGNED TO NATIONAL STANDARDS: KNEX 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. KNEX 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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Students will explore STEM concepts while building a working roller coaster with K'NEX Education STEM Explorations Roller Coaster Building Set! The set will engage and energize middle-school children as they boost their understanding of the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) concepts associated with a real-life amusement park ride.This K'NEX Education Set includes over 500 parts, plus a battery-powered motor, allowing a single child or a team of two to three children to build a working roller coaster. Two additional models are also included in this set - a ramp and a half-pipe -which can be built one at a time. The set requires two AA batteries, which are not included.K'NEX Education models offer proactive opportunities for children to develop scientific inquiry, investigation, and experimentation skills. Our inquiry-based lessons challenge aspiring students as they build, investigate, problem-solve, discuss, and evaluate scientific and design principles in action.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.K'NEX Education sets allow students to build replicas of real-world machines and other models, and through the lesson plans and experiments, to gain a concrete understanding of the principles that make them work.Broaden your kids' STEAMagination'with K'NEX Education STEM Explorations.
Item Dimensions: 12.5 x 12.25 x 2.25 inches
Number of Pieces: 546
Special Features: Construction
Educational Objective: Creative Thinking, Social Skills, STEM
Material Type: Plastic
Manufacturer Minimum Age (MONTHS): 96.0
Theme: Amusement Park Rides
Color: Multicolor
UPC: 744476770783
Global Trade Identification Number: 83
Package Type: Standard Packaging
Model Year: 2021
Model: 77078
Age Range Description: Kid
Brand Name: Basic Fun
Model Name: Rollercoaster Building Set
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I bought this for my son, who was 9 at the time. He's now 10 and this set is still working well and gets played with again and again. To begin, my son followed all of the included instructions and everything worked fine, but like other mentioned, sometimes the cart would not "catch" and go up the tallest peak on its own. No big deal. My son loves reworking and rebuilding things, so at that point he changed the track multiple times to make it work better, have more loops, etc. It's provided hours of play and entertainment. All of the pieces have held up well with no breakage, even though they are tinier than the standard K'nex. It's a nice set that I would purchase again.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024 by Little Matt's Mommy
The media could not be loaded. I gave this to my 9 year old grandson for Christmas. He’s very good at Lego, but this required many steps and patience, so we worked together on it. When it was finally finished the car would not make it through the last loop for the full cycle. What I like about this set is they give lots of tips at the end, so I encouraged my grandson to think how we might change it to get the car to go through that loop. After both of us trying this and that, I’m proud to say my grandson “fixed” the track to give the car the momentum to do the whole track. It is an excellent product and promotes teamwork and problem solving!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2024 by Bill Polidoro
Awesome "project" for dad and son. My 8 year old loved this Christmas gift and we spent several hours putting it together. Two complaints - 1. It was missing 2-3 small pieces. But they were pieces that there were multiples of. So we just took one from an area of the coaster that we didn't think would affect the overall structure and made it work. 2. A few pieces on the instructions called for a "yellow" piece when it was in fact red. Not a huge deal but there are like 4-5 different length rods that have unique colors. One we figured out there were two reds of two different lengths (one of which was supposed to be yellow) we could proceed. Overall a fun toy. We'll be looking at additional K'nex sets for his birthday.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020 by A. Rodriguez
The media could not be loaded. This K’NEX EDUCATION STEM EXPLORATIONS: ROLLER COASTER BUILDING SET is challenging to build, but it’s a satisfying building set. It’s motorized, and it performs really well. It’s fun to watch the chain pull the roller coaster car up to the top of the tower. And of course it’s fun to watch the car do the curves and loops of the track by gravity when it’s released. It took me a couple of days, working off and on, to assemble this roller coaster. The K’NEX pieces are fiddly to join, and the drawings in the instruction booklet are hard to interpret if you’re new to the K’NEX system. (The “snowflake” connectors are confusing; the rods must be inserted “just so”; and the drawings sometimes change their directional perspective without warning.) What I really loved about this set, is that the roller coaster car will often go around the loop more than once without any help. Three continuous loops is fairly common. Whether the car continues to loop by itself seems to depend on where the “chain-grabber” underneath the car hits the chain—whether it hits an opening in the chain or not. If you’re aiming for continuous loops, it helps to hold the base down. The K’NEX rods are thin, so the roller coaster support structure is kind of flimsy. However, the connections are tight enough that you can pick the whole structure up and move it without destroying it. A few connections may come loose, but they’re easy to reconnect. The roller coaster is a large structure (30” wide, 16” deep, 25” high), so you need quite a bit of space to build and play with it. The three experiments (one included in the box, two downloadable from the K’NEX web site) add to the educational value of this building set. The first experiment suggests adding different amounts of weight to the car to test how added mass affects the car’s ability to run the loops. For the second and third experiments, you rebuild the coaster into a long gravity ramp, and then into a half pipe, to learn more about how a car behaves on a straight or U-shaped track. Neither of these builds makes use of the motor, which is why the roller coaster build is far and away the best. When you open the box, keep the contents of each bag together, more or less. You’ll save time if you don’t dump all of the pieces out in a big pile on the tabletop. The pieces that are the same type are grouped together in the plastic bags—chain links, rods of certain lengths, red connectors, blue connectors, spacers, etc. When I’m assembling a big project like this one, with a lot of pieces, I use disposable plastic dinner and salad plates to hold the similar, or the same-colored, parts. A nice thing about this K’NEX set is that each different type of connector is a different color (the orange connectors are different from the yellow connectors, and so on), so it’s enough to check the color of the piece when you’re following the instructions.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2016 by 🌺 Lynne E.
Poor design. Son was very disappointed. The way its supposed to go together doesn't work. Not enough speed to get through the loop. I think park of the problem is the tiny knex pieces when the car goes it shakes the whole track. I went back through it to make sure everything was right it still didn't work. I could design it better bt not enough pieces. Im gonna get a real full size knex roller coaster on ebay for him.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2023 by billy joe bob
This is the second K’nex building set that we have bought for our grandson and he loves them! He’s 8 and will sit for hours to get it built. The instructions are very easy to follow and once it’s completed he enjoys playing with it. Great product
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024 by Country woman
All parts were there and this thing is awesome! I put it together in 4 hours and everything worked great. I only had to remove one of the chain pieces for a tighter fit. Buy this!! It is so entertaining! I do have to recommend building this in segments though, because the tips of my fingers hurt. Worth it. If anything, I would have liked this to include 1 or 2 extras of the pieces in case one breaks, gets lost, etc. It came with exactly the amount of pieces I needed… and with 3 extra red rods, for some reason.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023 by Diana Walker
One star off immediately because it is missing a part. These are maybe 50% the diameter of the knex from 30y ago. They bend easily and just don’t seem like they’ll last. My 30-35yo knex still seem stronger. I partially bought this assuming new knex would be compatible with legacy knex - not the case. I think that lack of rigidity is why it takes significant tinkering to get the car to reliably get back on the track to automatically be taken to the top of the coaster. This was a major issue for my mildly neurodivergent son that got extremely frustrated at times when it initially wouldn’t work on its own, and later when it would stop working. He eventually got through it, but in similar situations he’s written off the toy altogether such that it went in the donate pile.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024 by chuckda4th