LEGO Education SPIKE Prime

Device: What do you get when you mix the top selling toy in the world with coding? Anything you can imagine! LEGO Education SPIKE Prime combines colourful LEGO building elements with engineering, robotics, and programming and is suitable for upper primary and secondary pupils (P5+, ages 10+). Alternatively, LEGO Education SPIKE Essential has more of a focus on story-telling as well as engineering and is more suitable for lower primary (P3-P5, ages 6+), and LEGO Education Coding Express sets are suitable for even younger learners (ELC-P2, ages 2+) utilising screenless coding. 

Activity Description: This Code Like Kids module is the ultimate teamwork test. Participants will each adopt roles within their team (i.e. Team Leader, Builder, Coder) mirroring how teams work in ‘real life’ before working together using SPIKE Prime to assemble and code a robotic arm. They will then test their build through various dexterity challenges. Fun for LEGO fans or complete newbies, this module will develop leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills as well as participants’ ability to follow directions while building their devices because, as any experienced LEGO builder will tell you, there is nothing worse than getting to the last step only to realise you’ve incorrectly placed a brick back in step 4…

Duration and group size: Approximately 1-1.5 hours working in groups of 2-3 

Set up: Cabaret or horseshoe-style setup to facilitate interaction amongst learners. Power sources for laptops may also be required.