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What to Buy (WeDo 2.0)

1 March 20182 April 2019
WeDo
Getting Started

Planning on introducing the LEGO WeDo into your class? Here are some ideas on what you need to get started. Note: This guide is for LEGO Education WeDo 2.0, which comes in a blue container. […]

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What to Buy (WeDo 2.0)

WeDo
Getting Started

Getting started with STEM and EV3

7 February 201711 May 2017
EV3
Getting Started
Pedagogy

Posted by Kasia Nogalska

“I hear and I forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand.” This well-known quote describes the most effective method of teaching students. If you let children play football or basketball, they discover […]

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Getting started with STEM and EV3

EV3
Getting Started
Pedagogy

The importance of recording your work

31 August 201631 August 2016
Getting Started
Pedagogy

Posted by Asha

LEGO offers an amazing opportunity for students to build both easily and quickly. You don’t have to get specialized pieces and tools to make a robot or an engineering model. Students love being able to […]

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The importance of recording your work

Getting Started
Pedagogy

A LEGO WeDo learning sequence for younger students

1 June 201621 January 2018
WeDo
Challenge Ideas
Getting Started

Posted by Wayne Burnett

This learning sequence is intended for students as young as 5 years old. It provides a structured introduction to building with standard LEGO bricks before progressing to the WeDo kit. LEGO Education markets the WeDo […]

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A LEGO WeDo learning sequence for younger students

WeDo
Challenge Ideas
Getting Started

Scratch and LEGO WeDo

4 April 201616 December 2016
WeDo
Getting Started

Posted by Mike

You may have heard of the computer programming language Scratch. It’s a child-friendly system where you code by dragging around colored blocks and snapping them together – and for that reason some schools call it ‘Computer […]

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Scratch and LEGO WeDo

WeDo
Getting Started

Assessing student work in robotics and engineering

10 December 20151 April 2016
Cross-Platform
Getting Started
Pedagogy

Posted by Rob Torok

In this video, Professor Ethan Danahy from Tufts University provides insights to his philosophies of assessment within his first-year intro-to-engineering course on robotics (using LEGO MINDSTORMS and LabVIEW Graphical Programming) and the techniques he uses […]

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Assessing student work in robotics and engineering

Cross-Platform
Getting Started
Pedagogy

RCX USB tower support

31 March 201521 December 2017
RCX, ROBOLAB
Getting Started
How To

Posted by Rob Torok

This article provides instructions for installing the necessary drivers to use the RCX USB tower with ROBOLAB for LabVIEW. These instructions have been tested on Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10 as well as 32-bit and […]

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RCX USB tower support

RCX, ROBOLAB
Getting Started
How To

Learning sequence: Learn to build with LEGO

17 December 20147 September 2017
Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
Getting Started

Posted by CEEO

This sequence of activities introduces the basic LEGO system pieces. It’s great for beginners and works well with young children. It also introduces the concept of testing and redesigning. How can we build a sturdy […]

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Learning sequence: Learn to build with LEGO

Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
Getting Started

Robotics, LEGO, first day… What do I do?!

6 November 201431 October 2017
Cross-Platform
Getting Started

Posted by Ian Chow-Miller

This lesson is a great way to begin any class that involves LEGO Technic bricks. Young students starting with WeDo or Simple Machines, middle-school students beginning their first robotics class or even upper level grades […]

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Robotics, LEGO, first day… What do I do?!

Cross-Platform
Getting Started

Learning Dimensions: Another way to assess

6 November 20141 April 2016
Getting Started
Pedagogy

Posted by Jonathan-Dietz

Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson, from the Tinkering Studio at San Francisco’s legendary Exploratorium museum, have created an alternative Learning Dimensions Framework for the assessment of student engagement in project-based learning. Students are assessed for […]

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Learning Dimensions: Another way to assess

Getting Started
Pedagogy

Learning sequence: Learn about gears

28 October 201414 December 2017
Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
Getting Started

Posted by CEEO

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Learning sequence: Learn about gears

Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
Getting Started

Assessment tools for group projects

14 October 201413 March 2016
Getting Started
Pedagogy

Posted by Dot

In our push to get more students involved in STEM subjects, we incorporated LEGO robotics into our high school Physics and our AP Physics 1 curricula. This meant that I had to develop a consistent […]

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Assessment tools for group projects

Getting Started
Pedagogy

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