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LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential Set

Name: LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential Set
Brand: LEGO® Education
SKU: 6294632
Price: 319.95 USD
Availability: InStock

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For 2 students

100+ Hours of Learning

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

Resources

Classroom activities & technical support.

449 Elements

Including bricks, motors, sensors & hub.

Professional Development

Teacher resources & getting started materials.

Coding App

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ App for pupils included.

Community

Learn & share with other teachers.

LEGO^® Education SPIKE^™ Essential, part of the LEGO^® Learning System, is the cross-curricular STEAM solution for primary education. SPIKE Essential engages pupils in hands-on investigation of STEAM concepts while contributing to literacy, maths, and social-emotional development. Standards-aligned STEAM learning units use everyday themes, relatable Minifigures with different personalities and familiar LEGO^® building elements to solve problems through storytelling.

SPIKE Essential consists of a main primary classroom brick set with a wide variety of LEGO^® elements and intelligent hardware, along with the intuitive SPIKE^™ App, all of which is accompanied by a selection of unit plans and comprehensive online and in-app support.

SPIKE Essential excites pupils and delivers strong STEAM learning outcomes for primary classrooms, developing their STEAM knowledge and practices, and 21st century skills.

Lesson Plans

Standards-aligned STEAM Lessons

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

SPIKE Essential includes 10 units that focus on national standards for both lower and upper primary years. Each unit is comprised of five to eight 45-minute STEAM lessons for primary school classrooms, plus language arts and maths extensions for each lesson. This is 100+ hours of classroom content in total!

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

Spinning Ferris Wheel Lesson Plan

Elementary students working on STEAM project

“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

Customer Stories

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Check out these other standards-aligned LEGO^® Education SPIKE^™ Essential lessons for inspiration on how to boost STEAM skills in your primary classroom.

Animal Alarm

Taxi! Taxi!

Mini Mini-Golf

Rubbish Monster Machine

Unit Plans

LEGO^® Education SPIKE^™ Essential comes with 10 different unit plans, each with a unique learning promise, summarising what your pupils 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.
6. Science – See It! Hear It! Build It!
7. Science in Nature and Our Daily Life
8. Animals and their Environments
9. Science Connections
10. Science We Cannot See
Essential Combined: Combine LEGO^® Education SPIKE^™ Essential and LEGO^® Education BricQ Motion Essential to challenge your pupils’ STEAM knowledge and push their creativity to new heights!

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Elementary students working on a STEAM lesson

Competitions

Ready for STEAM Competitions

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

Competitions

Explore with Competitions

LEGO^® Education SPIKE^™ Essential will empower you and your pupils to take on the world of STEAM competitions. Robotics competitions like FIRST^® LEGO^® League and World Robot Olympiad offer fun hands-on challenges that get pupils excited, build confidence, and develop the kind of skills needed for real world success.

SPIKE Essential’s Explore unit allows teams of pupils to practice teamwork and collaboration in the FIRST^® LEGO^® League Explore Division, where they’ll be introduced to STEM, coding, and robotics design as they complete fun real-world challenges.

Competition Ready Unit

Competitions

FIRST® LEGO® League

FIRST^® LEGO^® League introduces science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) to children ages 4-16 through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experience through a guided, global robotics programme, helping today's pupils and teachers build a better future together.
Our three divisions inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

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