educators
Bloxels is not just another tech-enabled toy. It's a hands-on, brains-on, creativity and technology experience. Bloxels uniquely unlocks students’ innate creativity by leveraging something they love: video games. Students can play fun games and channel their creative potential as they gain greater understanding of important topics like design logic, and computer science and demonstrate their knowledge of history, science and mathematics and more through the games they create.
Ideal for Grades 1-5, Fun for Grades K-8
Most activities are scalable in complexity, so it’s appropriate for all grades, K through 8. Plus, it encourages collaboration, so players of all ages — parents, relatives, teachers, students and their friends — can build and play games together.
How it Works
Imagine
Build
Capture
Design
Play
Activities for your Classroom
Build your Classroom Experience
create & manage student accounts
Create individual accounts for each student and even group them into "Classrooms" for easy organization. Also, you are able to generate & reset unique passwords for every classroom. Managing accounts has never been so easy!
save work & track individual progress
Coming in 2018, your account will be able to track each of your student's progress as they build their game and save their work. Even more, parents will be able to follow their child's progress online.
product support from every angle
From lesson plans & activities with downloadable assets, 13-Bit Builder Challenges and rewards, a video library covering Bloxels in the Classroom, you'll have the support you need to hit the ground running from day one.
The EDU Hub helps educators organize & integrate Bloxels into their classroom while supporting them from the beginning to end. This allows you to focus on teaching goals and classroom experience versus the preparation involved in implementing a new tool in your curriculum.
Teach with Bloxels
Educator getting started guide
Are you entirely new to Bloxels, or just received your Bloxels classroom pack and are not sure where to start?
We've partnered with local educators to created this downloadable PDF to help guide you through your first day with Bloxels – all before you get started building alongside your students.
This document also lists the Common Core Standards that Bloxels teaches to and identifies additional key learning areas.
Download Guide
Lesson plans
In 2014 our team worked closely with the Grand Center Arts Academy (GCAA) to create lesson plans built around the Design Thinking Process made popular by the Stanford Design School. The teacher at GCAA, Andrew Goodin, started experimenting by using our game building tools to teach his students design thinking, and later volunteered to create lesson plans to share with others.
These continue to be adapted and modified to support Bloxels.
Bloxels demo guide
If you are showing off Bloxels for the first time to a group or a classroom, download this Introduction to Bloxels Guide to help you through your first demo, and feel free to adapt your presentation as you go!
Download guide
Brainstorming Kit
1 Storyboards
Who is the hero? What is the setting? Who is the protagonist? Create your gameplan before you start creating.
2 Gamebox
Want to promote your game with your own Gamebox design? Design it with markers (or on your computer before you print it) and share it with friends and family!
3 Sketch Grids
Brainstorm game layouts and artwork prior to creating them on the gameboard.
4 Award Certificate
Use this "fill-in-the-blank" award certificate to recognize creators hard work!
Purchase Bloxels for your Classroom!
Classroom 5-Pack
- Team Builder 5-Pack
- 5 Bloxels Gameboards
- 2,000 total blocks
- 400 blocks per gameboard
- Storage for Bloxels sets
- Educator Handbook
- 5 Guidebooks
- FREE Bloxels Builder app
- EDU Hub Access
- 5 Free Student Accounts
Classroom 10-Pack
Educator Discount!- 2 Team Builder 5-Packs
- 10 Bloxels Gameboards
- 4,000 total blocks
- 400 blocks per gameboard
- Storage for Bloxels sets
- Educator Handbook
- 10 Guidebooks
- FREE Bloxels Builder app
- EDU Hub Access
- 10 Free Student Accounts
Classroom 20-Pack
Educator Discount!- 4 Team Builder 5-Packs
- 20 Bloxels Gameboards
- 8,000 total blocks
- 400 blocks per gameboard
- Storage for Bloxels sets
- Educator Handbook
- 20 Guidebooks
- FREE Bloxels Builder app
- EDU Hub Access
- Brainstorming Kit
- 20 Free Student Accounts
Bloxels Builder is compatible with Apple, Android, and Kindle phones and tablets.
Visit the Bloxels store to view all our educational products.
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Need Funding?
Our Grant Kit provides teachers with funding options and assistance for assembling and submitting a grant application in order to get Bloxels for their students through a variety of funding options. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, or if we can help you with the grant process in any additional ways.
Bloxels across the Globe
Bloxels is not just taking off in the US, it already has global reach. Check out the map below to see all of the schools, libraries, maker spaces, and more already creating with Bloxels. Add your Organization!
Join our community! Become an Ambassador.
Join the Bloxels Community as an ambassador and be able to contribute to our resources library by sharing your lesson plans with other Bloxels Ambassadors. Being an ambassador you will also be the first to know about new features, test out updates, and have 24/7 access to our support line.
Robert Kalman
Educator in Residence
We're extremely excited to announce that Robert Kalman has joined the Pixel Press team as our "Educator in Residence". Developing the educational experience around Bloxels and managing Bloxels EDU; working with teachers, educators and parents best leverage Bloxels in the home & classroom.
See Bloxels in the Classroom and the Community
Frequently Asked Questions
We're excited to see that you are interested in purchasing Bloxels for your school, educational program or group. Below is a list of commonly asked questions about Bloxels for Education.
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