Dive into a world of STEM-powered exploration with EMC² Learning’s newest resource collection: Loot Lifters! This innovative lineup features nine themed variants designed to challenge students’ problem-solving, teamwork, and engineering skills, all while they embark on thrilling, treasure-hunting quests. Whether you’re navigating puzzles in a math class or engineering a device in science, Loot Lifters brings hands-on, collaborative learning to the forefront.
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Get Hooked On Learning
In Loot Lifters, students don’t just sit back—they take the helm of their learning journey. Each activity calls for teams to design, build, and iterate on their solutions, solving problems and completing challenges as they go. But here’s the kicker: to win, they’ll need to work together as a crew, pooling their collective knowledge to craft the perfect solution.
Each uniquely themed challenge in the lineup pits your students against a massive STEM challenge and a legendary foe! In our swashbuckling, high seas Kraken Attack variant, teams race against time and each other to retrieve loot from the legendary Kraken’s cursed waters. The only way to succeed? Solve STEM-based riddles and engineer creative contraptions to retrieve treasures without crossing the forbidden boundary. Your students will love competing, problem-solving, and iterating on their designs until they come out on top!
Themework Makes the Dream Work
Each of the nine variants in the Loot Lifters collection offers a different STEM-inspired challenge, all designed to reinforce key concepts while fostering teamwork and critical thinking. From building devices to solve real-world problems to cracking codes and retrieving loot through hands-on engineering, these activities are as dynamic as they are educational. Best of all? The themes and challenges can be easily adapted to fit any subject or grade level, from physics to biology or even interdisciplinary projects.
The power of Loot Lifters lies in its seamless blend of STEM principles with collaborative learning. Students must work together using an extremely limited set of supplies, to prototype, test, and iterate on their design. It’s the ultimate combination of design thinking and team-based problem solving. Plus, the challenges encourage rapid iteration and creative risk-taking, giving students the opportunity to experience the full engineering design process in a playful, engaging context. And the more they learn, the more they’ll earn!
With Loot Lifters, you’re not just giving students another worksheet—you’re giving them a dynamic, team-based, and hands-on way to engage with content that matters. So what are you waiting for? Get hooked on student-centered learning as an EMC² Learning Engagement Engineer today.
The activities featured in this blog post are just a handful of the 800+ resources available and on their way to arrive shortly in the EMC² Learning library. This entire library is available to all members with an active Engagement Engineer or Engagement Engineer PLUS account, and is included with your annual site membership. We hope you’ll consider joining us as an Engagement Engineer to unlock a full year of site access. For complete details including our exclusive limited time offer for annual site membership, click here.
