Your child can 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.