LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential Set

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential Set

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential! Learn the engineering designs of everyday life with STEAM disciplines with the brand new LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential! SPIKE™ Essential helps primary school students explore engineering design processes by developing their computational thinking skills.

What Will Students Gain With SPIKE™ Essential?

SPIKE™ Essential is a truly interdisciplinary STEAM solution, supporting the holistic development of children and the core lessons that are so important in the first grade. It brings STEAM concepts to real life from the first years of education by consciously and naturally integrating language skills, mathematics and social-emotional learning into STEAM disciplines. SPIKE™ Essential; By providing students with the opportunity to use familiar LEGO® minifigures, it facilitates class participation and arouses interest in STEAM lessons.

What Awaits You in the Contents of the SPIKE™ Essential Set?

SPIKE™ Essential set; It consists of 449 LEGO® bricks, the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ app with smart hardware learning activities, and a spare parts pack. It includes 5 unit plans suitable for the curriculum, consisting of 7 lessons of 45 minutes each. It offers hybrid learning opportunities with educational support and individual learning kits under the direction of a LEGO® Education Certified Instructor.

How was the SPIKE™ Essential Set Curriculum Prepared?

units; It has been prepared to include entertaining applications that will enable students to be interested in engineering, programming and science subjects, and videos that they will learn with a watch-make model.

What are the Benefits of the SPIKE™ Essential Set for Students?

SPIKE™ Essential enables learning to progress year after year, continuing from the first grades of education to the upper grades. The consistent unit structure builds a strong foundation for an easy transition to middle school and more advanced learning opportunities with SPIKE™ Prime. Color-coded grading trays streamline the construction process and aid in quick and efficient tidying up at the end of the lesson. As part of the LEGO® Learning System, it progresses in a familiar and consistent structure for both students and teachers, enabling deeper learning. Combining SPIKE™ Essential with other learning solutions is key to keeping students engaged and excited, as well as providing more learning opportunities.

What Innovations Does SPIKE™ Essential Bring to Robotic Coding?

LEGO® Education announced the retirement of the WeDo 2.0 set used in primary school robotic coding education. Standing out with its advanced capabilities, SPIKE™ Essential has replaced the primary school WeDo 2.0 set! SPIKE™ Essential, which meets today's coding needs with a new technology; It comes to the fore with its curriculum prepared for all levels, which will facilitate the robotic coding education of primary school students. Let's examine the differences between the SPIKE™ Essential and the LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 set, which take the robotics and coding achievements of primary school students to a higher level.

What Makes SPIKE™ Essential Different From WeDo 2.0?

•  SPIKE™ Essential works with other trainers in the LEGO® Learning System. In this way, students can build more advanced and different robots. Since this feature was not available in WeDo 2.0, we could only design robots with their own parts.
• WeDo 2.0 is only suitable for coding with icon blocks, while with SPIKE™ Essential you can choose coding languages ​​suitable for levels. For primary school students who have not experienced robotic coding before, you can start with symbol blocks and move on to text-based coding at later levels. 
• Teachers can observe the level difference of the students in their classes more clearly and in detail. With post-event evaluations, the analysis processes for each student's level are facilitated.
• Line tracking is made easy with SPIKE™ Essential's precision color sensor. With the help of this sensor, it is possible to design and build much more advanced robots.
• You can enrich your projects by programming the 6-axis gyroscope sensor, which is not available in WeDo, at the level of difficulty you want.
• The motors in SPIKE™ Essential are programmable with degrees, laps, seconds and continuous run options. Thanks to this innovation, students can design and build their robots much more freely without being limited.

LEGO® Education SPIKE Specifications:

•  4 relatable minifigures with different identities and characteristics support problem solving and social-emotional learning.
• 2. It includes 2 Small Motors, a Color Sensor, 3x3 Color Light Matrix and a smart Small Hub with 2 I/O ports, Bluetooth connectivity, 6-axis gyroscope and a rechargeable Li-ion battery with micro USB charging and port.
• The 449-piece set also includes familiar LEGO® bricks and spares for intuitive and easy building.
• Sturdy storage box with color-coded separation trays for easy classroom management. Featuring Scratch-based, age-appropriate symbol and word-based coding, the SPIKE™ App helps develop students' coding skills. 
• 5 units of 8 x 45-minute, standards-compliant lessons encourage independent STEAM thinking through fun, narrative-based problem solving. Comprehensive teaching resources for every subject give every teacher the confidence to deliver engaging lessons. Core learning values
• Develop computational thinking skills, including creating and modifying arrays, testing, debugging, and using loops. 
• Explore the engineering design process, including defining a problem, brainstorming solutions, and testing and improving prototypes. 
• Explore scientific concepts related to energy, energy transfer, and collision. Reinforce verbal communication skills as students collaboratively discuss their experiences. 
• Engage in narrative-based problem solving. 
• Develop social-emotional language by helping a main story character solve a problem.

·     IN STEP ONE; By clicking on the LEGO® Education SPIKE Essential Getting Started link, you can access the video that will guide you through the content of your set, electronics, set layout and piece overview, downloading the SPIKE app and classroom use.

·    IN STEP TWO; To complete the SPIKE Essential box layout, you can follow the instructions in the "Assemble your set" section on the Getting Started page.

·   IN STEP THIRD; You can access the lesson plans prepared by LEGO® Education Academy instructors, prepared according to the 5E learning model, for all the activities you will use with LEGO® Education solutions, from the Lesson Plans link.In addition, by watching the video in the Teacher Resources link; you can access information on the points to be considered while exploring these plans, how to use the student worksheets, the main objectives of the activity and where to access the learning outcomes.

·   IN STEP FOUR; You can download the SPIKE app from the SPIKE App link.

·   IN THE FIFTH STEP; There is information on how to update your smart brick, how to rename it, how to connect it to a computer or tablet, and how to charge its battery. You can access this information by watching the video in the Application link. Also, the answer to how to start the educational video activities is also in this video.

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