New: Coding Express!
Coding Express is our new creative, intuitive and versatile solution that will inspire your early learners to explore early coding concepts while also developing critical 21st century skills such as confidence, creativity and collaboration. The new action bricks will make the train come to life as the children place them around the tracks to sound the horn, turn the lights on and off, pause and refuel, change direction and stop the train. The solution includes teacher material developed to inspire educators to help children understand basic early coding concepts, such as sequencing, looping and conditional coding.
Coding Express Lesson Plans
Designed for children working in groups, Coding Express lessons have been developed using science, math and technology guidelines from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the 21st Century Early Learning framework (P21) and Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
Getting Started with Coding Express
The Coding Express solution consists on a Teacher Guide with 8 lessons and video tutorials, a getting started card and building inspiration cards to help you make the most of the solution and creating a collaborative and interactive experience for your early learners. The optional app will unlock even more learning possibilities.
21st Century Lessons
LEGO Learning Solutions are designed to ignite curiosity and integrate easily into your classroom. Developed in collaboration with university leaders and educators in the classroom — and tested by teachers! — LEGO Education’s lesson plans are aligned to HeadStart and NAEYC guidelines and provide more than 25 early learning activities that stimulate learning through play.
With LEGO Education’s curriculum tools for early learning, students:
- Form social and emotional skills though self-regulation, group play, and idea sharing
- Develop problem-solving skills through play-based scenarios
- Explore how things work through physical interactions and storytelling
LEGO Education’s STEAM Park recognized by Worlddidac Foundation
Created to spark young children’s natural curiosity in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math through play, STEAM Park is a hands-on solution for engaging early learners in new concepts and cooperative problem-solving and recently has been selected to receive the 2018 Worlddidac Award! The Worlddidac Award recognizes innovation and quality in educational products and solutions worldwide that contribute to the improvement of learning and teaching. Learn more about the STEAM Park solution which includes a teacher guide, with lessons built on national standards, and how you can use it with your early learners.
A World to Explore
LEGO DUPLO sets help children investigate the world around them, developing critical social and computational skills as they sort, classify, build, examine, and share their creations:
- Constructing and deconstructing provides a tactile way to learn early math and science concepts
- Creating and sharing stories using DUPLO characters builds early language and literacy skills
- Roleplaying with “Emotions” bricks fosters social and emotional development
- Creative exploration with other students builds negotiation, self-expression, and turn-taking skills.
Early Learning Solutions
Developed in alignment with NAEYC and HeadStart guidelines to promote 21st Century skills
for young children, LEGO Education Early Learning offers solutions in these areas:
Developed in alignment with NAEYC and HeadStart guidelines to promote 21st Century skills
for young children, LEGO Education Early Learning offers solutions in these areas:
Early Math & Science
Children naturally sort, count, and classify, and LEGO DUPLO bricks provide a hands-on way to explore numbers, shapes, and colors as kids construct and deconstruct their creations. Colorful bricks and figures offer an engaging way to learn about cause and effect, motion, addition, and subtraction.
Early Language & Literacy
Nothing builds communication skills more than having the chance to express thoughts and ideas to others. Using LEGO DUPLO characters and backdrops to create stories introduces basic storytelling concepts to children and gives them an opportunity to share ideas — and the spotlight! — together.
Social & Emotional Development
Helping children develop social skills is a critical component of early learning education. LEGO Education Early Learnings’s “Emotions” bricks help teach kids to recognize feelings and understand similarities and differences, while developing collaboration and turn-taking skills.
Creative Exploration
In the hands of children, LEGO bricks are tangible, colorful tools that encourage creative play and foster collaboration. By constructing their own imaginative ideas with other students, kids build their communication, negotiation, and self-expression skills while practicing basic sorting and counting concepts.