Stay At Home STEAM with LEGO® Education

Keeping education exciting and engaging at home can be difficult. We’re here to make it a little easier with resources for getting hands-on with at-home learning

Homeschool Resources

Stay At Home STEAM with LEGO® Education

Keeping education exciting and engaging at home can be difficult. We’re here to make it a little easier with resources for getting hands-on with at-home learning

Homeschool Resources

Tips and Ideas

Looking for a way to provide home learning activities for children of all ages?

Whether they’re in the classroom or the living room children have big imaginations, innate curiosity, and a desire to explore and take risks. All you need are the resources to tap into them. LEGO Education wants to help. Hands-on learning provides a medium for building ideas and models while practicing important skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. For more than 40 years, LEGO Education has been developing educational solutions based on a well-established educational theory that children learn best and remember more through hands-on experiences.

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Tips and Ideas

Top 10 At Home Learning Tips and Tricks

1. Cleaning up doesn’t have to be a chore! Make it a playful learning opportunity – sort, label, count, and categorise as you go. You can sort by a different method each time such as colour or size. Make it a race or slow things down and discuss the function of each piece and how it was or could be used as you pick up.
2. Need to transport your child’s amazing creation? Reuse a cardboard box or lid from a storage bin!
3. Create a STEAM at Home Space where you and your student can explore these fun and exciting subjects!
4. Build with your student! It’s a great family activity and can be relaxing for adults too! You might even learn something new yourself!
5. Create an engineering or design notebook for your child! Document all of your hard work step by step. Record the problem, the design challenges, or things you need so your child can reflect on whether final solution provides a great resolution to the original problem.
6. Take a Brain Break! Complete quick builds with students as a break from other work or when your child needs a few minutes to get hands on. Try it with the LEGO Six Bricks concept.
7. Make sharing part of the process! Have your child talk about their creations and ask “W” questions: “Why did you use that piece?”, “What decisions did you make?”, “Where did your run into challenges?”, and “How did you overcome the challenges?”
8. Challenge your child to think in a new way! “What would happen if you removed all bricks that have more than 10 studs?” "How could you overcome this challenge?” “How does it change the build or design of the model?”
9. Become a storyteller! Challenge your child to create a story to go with their creation, and allows the build to come to life in new ways.
10. Get inspiration from others. Utilize our various videos to spark your child’s interest and challenge them to go even further with their learning. https://www.youtube.com/user/LEGOeducationUS

Most importantly, don’t be afraid to ask for help. Contact your local distributor by clicking here.

STEAM at Home Ideas

Learning at home doesn’t have to mean learning with limitations. Whether it’s buckets of bricks or cardboard boxes and craft supplies, with a little imagination you can bring STEAM learning home! Gather your materials and get making with our fun lessons for inspiration.

Find all our STEAM at Home Ideas here or check out our favourite lessons below.

Carnival Game (Early Learning)

Animal Shelter (Early Learning)

Make a Life Hack (Primary)

Make a Dancing Robot (Primary)

Solutions

Home STEAM & STEM Solutions

Year 5 to 8

STEAM Park by LEGO® Education

Primary School

At Home with LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0

LEGO^® Education WeDo 2.0 is a playful way to bring coding skills and national curriculum aligned lessons right into your home. The combination of the intuitive LEGO^® brick system, with friendly software and block-based coding makes hands-on STEAM learning exciting and accessible. This kind of Learning Through Play introduces students to science, computational thinking, and engineering principles in a fun and engaging way.

WeDo 2.0 is a great resource for building your elementary school students’ confidence in their ability to define problems, ask questions, and design their own solutions—ensuring they don’t lose momentum while they aren’t in school.

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Primary School

Using WeDo 2.0 at Home

Our WeDo 2.0 solution features national curriculum aligned lessons introducing children to science, computational thinking and engineering principles in a fun and engaging way. All lessons can be found both online and in the WeDo 2.0 App, which will help you get started.

If you want to dive right into the fun, our Milo getting started lessons will have your children designing, building and programming before long. Alternatively, check out the WeDo 2.0 playlist on youtube.

Still need more inspiration? Here's a few of our favourite WeDo 2.0 Science lessons to inspire confidence and lifelong learning at home.

Make a Dancing Robot

Shake It Up

Life In Action

Inspired Building

Secondary School

At Home with LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime

LEGO Education SPIKE^™ Prime unlocks STEAM learning for middle school-aged students. Continuously engage your child through playful learning activities that push thinking critically and solving complex problems. The set provides endless possibilities through the combination of colourful LEGO building elements, easy-to-use hardware, and an intuitive drag-and-drop coding language based on Scratch.

The addition of the expansion set challenges students to build more intricate models that can act in new ways due to the inclusion of additional elements, motors, and sensors. This solution will set you up for success with lessons tied to national curriculum and prompting questions to help you facilitate the learning as well as getting started support to put you on the path to learning quicker.

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Secondary School

Standards Based Learning with SPIKE™ Prime

This solution has more than 25 lesson plans that have been created with critical thinking and educational standards at its heart. All the material for students is found within the SPIKE App itself, and we've included the free lesson plans on our website for parents or teachers to guide them.

There are easy getting started lessons right within the app to introduce working with SPIKE and an onboarding experience for teachers to prepare the set for their children.

Additionally, here are a few examples of our favourites lessons from the Invention Squad unit once you get going.

Movement & Sensors

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Move Creatively

Builds That Help

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Fixing Things

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Secondary School

At Home with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3

Is your older child ready for a challenge? LEGO^® MINDSTORMS^® Education EV3 is a hands-on solution that allows them to practice their STEM and robotics skills in a ‘near real-world’ environment. Students are able to experience real-world applications of Python, which is considered the most common language used to teach computer science at universities. EV3 also fosters project based learning that we know secondary school students thrive on. There are national curriculum aligned lessons to draw on, and plenty of opportunity for in-depth study so you and your student can define and reach their individual goals.

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Secondary School

Program at home with MINDSTORMS EV3

LEGO^® MINDSTORMS^® Education EV3 features national curriculum aligned lessons designed to develop older children's skills across computer science, engineering and other areas of technical education.

Additionally, MINDSTORMS EV3 introduces high schoolers to Python programming by integrating MicroPython with the EV3 Brick. To learn more about the programming aspect of MINDSTORMS EV3, check out our playlist on youtube.

Ready to build? Have a look at some of our favorite lessons below.