Equip your students with STEM knowledge and skills Today’s elementary students are tomorrow’s creative problem-solvers. Equip them with the necessary STEM knowledge and skills to be innovative and imaginative thinkers. LEGO® Education helps make abstract STEM concepts tangible by taking teaching out of the textbooks and putting it into the hands of your students. Create a better understanding of STEM subjects while building 21st-century skills. Make STEM learning come to life LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 makes science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and coding come to life. The unique combination of the LEGO brick, classroom-friendly software, and engaging, standards-based projects results in a resource that builds students’ confidence to ask questions, define problems and design their own solutions by putting STEM learning directly in their hands. WeDo 2.0 uses Bluetooth Low Energy For WeDo 2.0, we have integrated the latest Bluetooth technology into our solution to let you take 'live' control of the models you create for near-instantaneous response.
To find out more about this amazing technology, click here. Don't forget to check out our system requirement to ensure that your device is compatible with WeDo 2.0 BLE technology. The LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 curriculum pack is built on Next Generation Science Standards and delivers key science content to second through fourth grade students. The curriculum facilitates and supports a clear, easy-to-follow journey through subjects, including: life-, physical-, earth- and space sciences, and engineering. Features 17 projects totaling more than 40 hours of instructional content. Download Resources For Free Everything you need to bring LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 to life in the classroom. LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Software LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Curriculum STEM relevant curriculum addressing Science, Engernering and Computational Thinking. LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 eLearning An online eLearning program taking you from complete beginner to classroom-ready.
Discover how real-world STEM works LEGO Education Machines & Mechanisms enables elementary students to discover how the real world works. With Machines & Mechanisms, students get an in-depth understanding of mechanical and structural principles built into everyday machines. By building, designing, and testing solutions, students work as young scientists and engineers, all while honing design technology, science, and math skills. We support teachers by providing easy-to-use, age-appropriate, hands-on materials along with guided lessons that meet technology and science standards. The LEGO Education Machines & Mechanisms activity packs give you the tools, documentation and lesson plans to teach simple and complex machines effectively. Activity pack for Early Simple Machines (Grades K-1) Includes eight 45-minute lessons, each with extension activities of up to 20 minutes, and four additional open-ended problem-solving activities. Activity pack for Simple Machines (Grades 1-4)
Features 16 principle activities, four main activities, and four problem-solving activities. Activity pack for Simple and Powered Mechanisms (Grades 5 +) Features 37 principle model activities, 14 main activities, including extension activities, and six problem-solving tasks. Download Machines & Mechanisms Resources For Free Many LEGO Education products require curriculum to get a succesful start in the classroom. You can now download and explore Machines & Mechanisms Resources for free at any time. The easiest way to get started with LEGO Education Experience the positive impact that LEGO Education solutions can have on learning, engagement and your overall classroom environment with LearnToLearn. Designed to give educators a taste of what it’s like to use LEGO bricks in your classroom, LearnToLearn provides an ideal introduction to the world of LEGO Education elementary solutions. For teachers, it offers a glimpse into how LEGO bricks can be used to boost learning across literacy, math, science, and engineering.
For students, the 72 colorful basic bricks can be used as a hands-on tool to experience, explore and solve a variety of activities. With LearnToLearn educators get an easy on-ramp to our hands-on, minds-on learning method enabling them to see the impact the familiar brick can have on their classroom. Download LearnToLearn Resources For Free Many LEGO Education products require curriculum, software and/or eLearning to get started in the classroom. You can now download and explore these digital resources for free at any time.Gallery: Female Scientist LEGO Minifig... < back to story Slideshow image 5 of 5
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view this image in original size ( 800 x 548 ) Back in April 2012, LEGO CUUSOO member Alatariel submitted a Female Minifigure Set project. Alatariel’s female Minifig scientists were designed not only to expand the amount of female Minifigs in the world, but also to show younger generations that women can hold awesome science jobs like astronomer, paleontologist, and chemist.
Alatariel gained the support of the Brave Girls Alliance, and 42,047 other people, all of whom signed a petition in an attempt to move the project forward into a LEGO reality. In June 2014, the idea became much more when LEGO announced that they’d be turning Alatariel’s idea into an actual LEGO product that kids can play with and be inspired by! The Research Institute of women minifigs is available now at the LEGO shop and includes paleontologist, astronomer and chemist minifigures along with paleontology, astronomy, and chemistry scenes on a 6×6 baseplate. With the set, kids everywhere can gain insight into the world of natural science and experience fun LEGO science activities like discovering new stars and planets through the telescope, studying the dinosaur skeleton up close, and concocting new formulas in the chemist’s lab. Bonus, there’s even more fun to be had because these rocking female scientists have their own Twitter account now that includes an ongoing story about the work they’re doing.
@LegoAcademics, is a their Twitter account, through which they share the goings-on at the Lego Research Institute as they take on the challenges of modern academia. According to CNET, “Donna Yates, the person behind the Lego Academics account, is an archaeologist in a criminology department at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She draws on her own academic experience and those of her close friends to fuel the minifigs’ humorous Twitter escapades.” Yates is apparently one of the lucky individuals who managed to score one of the Research Institute sets before it sold out in the USA and UK. Yates’ LegoAcademics account shows, in images, how the tiny science-minded minifigs tackle a host of academic challenges, such as the peer-review process — as well as less stressful topics including leftover conference food, or relaxing after work with some drinks. Though the Research Institute of women minifigs collection is currently sold out, we’re hoping LEGO brings them back so that kids all over the world can be inspired by women working in the field of science.