Favorite Elements from LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential

The cross-curricular STEAM solution for elementary school in the Middle East & Dubai is LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential. SPIKE Essential encourages kids to investigate STEAM ideas through hands-on activities while also supporting literacy, arithmetic, and social-emotional development. To address problems via storytelling, standards-aligned learning modules combine everyday themes, relatable Mini-figures with diverse personalities, and familiar LEGO® construction parts.

SPIKE Essential™ includes a core classroom brick set with a wide variety of LEGO® pieces and intelligent hardware, as well as the intuitive SPIKE™ App and a choice of unit designs, as well as extensive online and in-app assistance.

SPIKE Essential™ engages students through out the Middle East & Dubai and provides high STEAM learning outcomes, allowing them to enhance their STEAM knowledge and practices as well as 21st-century abilities.

The LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential curriculum components are focused on a playful narrative-based problem-solving approach with relatable themes that can help young students develop into independent STEAM thinkers.

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential is a set of five LEGO® Education SPIKE™ units that focus on national standards for both lower and upper elementary grades. Each unit has seven to eight 45-minute sessions, as well as language arts and math extensions. This is a total of 50 hours of classroom content! During each course, students collaborate with their peers to explore and build unique solutions through trial and error.

 

Meet some of our favorite LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential elements. As they bring their STEAM ideas to life, students’ creativity will blossom.

Minifigures

STEAM learning is relatable because of the diversity of identities and qualities.

 

LEGO Bricks

Stackable LEGO bricks that can be stacked, for quick construction and hands-on learning.

Bridge Pin

Connects imaginative, system-brick constructions to hardware and LEGO® Technic™ pieces.

16×16 White Baseplate

A “blank canvas” for pupils’ imaginative thoughts, models, and creativity. Small Hub (LEGO® Technic) Connect the Hub to motors, sensors, other LEGO pieces, and Bluetooth to create fascinating, interactive constructions.

Small Wheel

Little Wheel Increases maneuverability and is an excellent match for small engines.

3×3 Colour Light Matrix by LEGO® Technic

Create patterns and animations in 10 colours by individually programming the nine pixels.

LEGO® Technic™

Colors are detected by the LEGO® Technic™ Color Sensor, which allows creations to react to their surroundings.

Accessories

The stories of the students are given a humorous and quirky twist by accessories and ornamental accents.

Small Angular Motor (LEGO® Technic™)

LEGO creations come to life thanks to the compact design profile and integrated rotation sensor with absolute location.

LEGO Bricks

Stackable LEGO bricks that can be stacked, for quick construction and hands-on learning.

Bridge Pin

Connects imaginative, system-brick constructions to hardware and LEGO® Technic™ pieces.

16×16 White Baseplate

A “blank canvas” for pupils’ imaginative thoughts, models, and creativity. Small Hub (LEGO® Technic) Connect the Hub to motors, sensors, other LEGO pieces, and Bluetooth to create fascinating, interactive constructions.

Small Wheel

Little Wheel Increases maneuverability and is an excellent match for small engines.

3×3 Colour Light Matrix by LEGO® Technic

Create patterns and animations in 10 colours by individually programming the nine pixels.

LEGO® Technic™

Colors are detected by the LEGO® Technic™ Color Sensor, which allows creations to react to their surroundings.

Accessories

The stories of the students are given a humorous and quirky twist by accessories and ornamental accents.

Small Angular Motor (LEGO® Technic™)

LEGO creations come to life thanks to the compact design profile and integrated rotation sensor with absolute location.

These elements are extremely popular in the GCC, countries like Dubai have seen a rapid rise in the liking of this type of curriculum.

The online self-guided or supervised professional development training programme for LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential enables instructors to study, practise, and master the competencies required to accomplish the whole SPIKE Essential learning outcome.

Teachers participate actively in this hands-on, tailored professional learning programme aimed at developing a strong set of transferable instructional skills and methods that promote student achievement and facilitate hands-on, entertaining STEAM learning.