Lego Education Launches Spike Essential STEAM Learning Kit for Students
The learning solution offers over 50 hours of content.
Lego Education has released the newest product in its Lego Learning System: Lego Education Spike Essential.
Designed for students in Grades 1-5 (aged 6+), Lego Education Spike Essential features five different STEAM curriculum learning units, each with a different theme: Great Adventures, Amazing Amusement Park, Happy Traveler, Crazy Carnival Games, and Quirky Creations.
Each unit includes 7-8 lessons and 6-10 hours of content. Kids can complete lessons using real-world Lego bricks as well as an associated mobile application.
In a press release, Lego Education provided more information about Spike Essential:
"SPIKE Essential offers playful learning experiences in which students solve problems through storytelling. The cross-curricular STEAM solution includes familiar LEGO building elements, four new Minifigures with different characteristics and personalities that are relatable to students, and standards-aligned learning units using everyday themes. The characters and stories not only engage students in STEAM learning, but also foster social-emotional skills. With 50 combined hours of educational content, SPIKE Essential combines age-appropriate icon- and word-based block coding with simple hardware - including an intelligent Hub, motors, a Light Matrix, and a Color Sensor - to bring Steam concepts to life with the LEGO® Education Spike™ App."
The Lego Education Spike Essential Set is now available on Lego’s website for $274.95. A single set can support up to two students.
You can learn more about Lego Education Spike Essential on the Lego Education website.
Top image via Lego Education.
Brandy Berthelson has been writing about video games and technology since 2006, with her work appearing on sites including AOL Games, Digital Spy, and Adweek’s Social Pro Daily. When she’s not gaming, Brandy enjoys crafting, baking, and traveling with her husband.
