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LEGO® Education

45345

Each set supports 2 students in the classroom.

Each set supports 2 students in the classroom.

Standards-aligned experiences within the app & ready for class.

Find getting started, classroom activities & technical support.

Including bricks, motors, sensors & hub.

Free, online self-guided learning to help technical competency & pedagogy.

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ App for students included.

Learn & share with other teachers.

Lesson Plans

LEGO ® Education SPIKE ™ Essential curriculum units are designed around playful narrative-based problem-solving with relatable themes that can develop young students into independent STEAM thinkers.

LEGO ® Education SPIKE ™ Essential includes 5 units that focus on national standards for both lower and upper elementary grades. Each unit is comprised of seven to eight 45-minute lessons, plus language arts and math extensions for each lesson. This is 50 hours of classroom content in total!

During each lesson, students brainstorm and develop creative solutions through trial and error while collaborating with their peers.​

"The lesson was really cool and interactive. My students got to problem-solve, build and use their hands - the kids who can't read were fine, too - and it incorporates technology, which is very motivating."

3rd Grade Teacher, Rockaway Borough, New Jersey, USA

LEGO ® Education SPIKE ™ Essential comes with 5 different unit plans, each with a unique learning promise, summarizing what your students will learn over the course of the unit.

1. Great Adventures: Creating Interactive Stories.
2. Amazing Amusement Park: Engineering a Fun Day Out.
3. Happy Traveler: Programming Your Way Around Town.
4. Crazy Carnival Games: Playing with Energy Transfer and Collision.
5. Quirky Creations: Engineering Cool School Hacks.
Essential Combined: Combine LEGO ® Education SPIKE ™ Essential and LEGO ® Education BricQ Motion Essential to challenge your students' STEAM knowledge and push their creativity to new heights!

Professional Development

LEGO ® Education SPIKE ™ Essential is fully supported with online self-guided or facilitated professional development training program, enabling teachers to learn, practice, and master the competencies necessary to achieve the complete SPIKE Essential learning outcome.

Teachers actively engage in this experiential, personalized professional learning program designed to produce a strong set of transferrable instructional skills and strategies that foster student success, and facilitate hands-on, playful STEAM learning.

Competitions

LEGO ® Education SPIKE ™ Essential extends its creative spirit beyond the classroom to robotics clubs, coding programs, and maker spaces. STEAM programs are a highly motivating and engaging way for students to develop and demonstrate their science and technology skills. These programs help students learn the cooperation, collaboration, and teamwork skills they'll need to excel in a changing workforce.

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Meet SPIKE Essential, your elementary school solution to build students' confidence and introduce 21st century STEM skills. Ideal for classrooms, after school and home.

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Khan Academy Kids – Free Learning App for Younger Children

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Khan Academy Kids – Free Learning App for Younger Children

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Free, fun educational app for young kids | Khan Academy Kids

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Inspire a lifetime of learning with our educational app for kids ages 2-8. Kids can learn reading, writing, math, counting, ABCs, addition, subtraction, social-emotional skills, & more. 100% free on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Amazon

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Get Minecraft Education for your classroom. Find out how using this game will take your students' learning to the next level.

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Storybird (Creative Writing and Storytelling Platform)

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Storybird (Creative Writing and Storytelling Platform)

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

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Reading and Literacy-Related Videos from Khan Academy(History, Arts, and Science Contexts)

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Reading and Literacy-Related Videos from Khan Academy(History, Arts, and Science Contexts)

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Beauty. War. Religion. Society. Language. The human condition, in all its wonder and depravity, is at the heart of the study of the arts and humanities.

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journey (aaron becker's wordless trilogy)

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Journey (Aaron Becker's Wordless Trilogy)

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A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about self-determination - and unexpected friendship.A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure,...

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Teaching Tolerance - Social Justice Standards and Lessons

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Teaching Tolerance - Social Justice Standards and Lessons

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A Framework for Anti-Bias Education

The Social Justice Standards are a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K-12 instruction. Comprised of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes, the standards provide a common language and organizational structure educators can use to guide curriculum development and make schools more just and equitable.

Divided into four domains-identity, diversity, justice and action (IDJA)-the standards recognize that, in today's diverse classrooms, students need knowledge and skills related to both prejudice-reduction and collective action. Together, these domains represent a continuum of engagement in anti-bias, multicultural and social justice education. The IDJA domains are based on Louise Derman-Sparks' four goals for anti-bias education in early childhood.

Each of the IDJA domains has learning outcomes and school-based scenarios organized by grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

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From Shel Silverstein, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, comes a poignant picture book about love and acceptance, cherished for over fifty years. This classic is perfect for both young readers and lifelong fans.

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Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back . He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half , Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? , The Missing Piece , The Missing Piece Meets the Big O , and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree , and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends , A Light in the Attic , Falling Up , Every Thing On It , Don't Bump the Glump! , and Runny Babbit plus Runny Babbit Returns .

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Let’s Talk: Discussing race, racism and other difficult topics with students

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