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We are a passionate group of educators from around the world who believe that play and exploration build successful life-long learners. We strive to do our best work every day so our students can explore, learn, and challenge themselves through lessons and activities that inspire inquiry. Our community mission is to support and learn from one another, to innovate across content areas, and to connect with our peers.

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LEGO Education Unit and Lesson Plans
LEGO Education Unit and Lesson Plans

Explore LEGO Education Unit and Lesson Plans by Product, Grade, and Subject.
SPIKE™ Essential Lesson Progressions
SPIKE™ Essential Lesson Progressions

We've sequenced SPIKE™ Essential Lessons for Grades 1-5, combined with brick activities, app tutorials, and prompts, to optimize students' learning of science and computer science concepts.

NEW! SPIKE™ Prime Lesson Progressions
NEW! SPIKE™ Prime Lesson Progressions

Access SPIKE™ Prime Lesson Progressions for Grades 6-8, with each grade level featuring over 40 elements sequencing LEGO® Education lesson content with brick activities, SPIKE™ App tutorials, and ELA and math extensions.

STEAM Placemat Activities
STEAM Placemat Activities

Looking for ways to spark student creativity during STEAM activities? Learn more about placemat instructions for open-ended design challenges and how you can use them in your classroom.
Dr. E's Skill Builders
Dr. E's Skill Builders

Learn about LEGO elements like Technic pieces, building mechanisms such as gears, or the Engineering Design Process through Skill Builders.

NEW! Activities and Challenges
NEW! Activities and Challenges

Looking for new content to use with your students? Each month, we will be posting four new extension activities or challenges:

Computer Science Courses
Computer Science Courses

Explore three Computer Science Courses: Foundations of Physical Computing, Intro to Python Course 1, and Intro to Python Course 2, each of which is suitable for teachers or students to build their CS skills!
Summer Learning Programs
Summer Learning Programs

Our camp-style lesson plans are perfect for fostering a love of learning beyond the classroom. Students will be excited to stay engaged in these fun challenges for longer periods of time.
Build to Launch
Build to Launch

Build to Launch, in coordination with NASA, explores the technology, STEAM concepts, and careers behind the Artemis I mission to the Moon.
Rebuild the World
Rebuild the World

Hannah’s STEAM Heroes: A Career Toolkit will help you bring #RebuildTheWorld to life in the classroom. The series is meant to inspire students to have their own a-ha moments when they discover what is possible when they combine their own confidence, curiosity, and passion.
Build the Change
Build the Change

Engage children in sustainability and the environment! The courses include everything the teacher needs to get started, such as presentations, speaker notes, videos, worksheets.

Competition Ready
Competition Ready

In this unit of nine lessons, your students will be introduced to the world of robotics competitions as they learn the basics of building and programming autonomous robots using sensors.
Personal Learning Kit Activities
Personal Learning Kit Activities

LEGO® Education Essential and Prime Personal Learning Kits are extension packs of our core SPIKE™ Solutions that can also be used for reflective or open-ended builds, or blended or remote learning. The activities in this link contain Lesson Presentations and additional instructional resources.

Brick Activities
Brick Activities

Brick Activities are quick practices and strategies to incorporate Learning Through Play with students. The activities in this link span content areas—from math and science to ELA—and they are infinitely adaptable for other content areas and grade levels.

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JASON Rothenburger
Keep It Safe-Spike Prime Lesson
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My daughter and I are having trouble figuring out the block code for the condition on the safe to not have it open ...
JASON Rothenburger Category Getting Started Feb '24
cameron allen cameron allen Mar '24

@JASON Rothenburger my son and I also struggling but looks like no answers here. Did you work it out?

JASON Rothenburger JASON Rothenburger Mar '24

@cameron allen yes. You have to add in a sound in between each direction command for the rotation so that they act as a ...

cameron allen cameron allen Mar '24

@JASON Rothenburger :

@cameron allen yes. You have to add in a sound in between each direction command for the ...

Ignacio Arellano Ignacio Arellano Oct '24

@cameron allen
I just stumbled at the same problem today at the classroom. Solution was to change to less than ...

Cassondra Zielinski
Keeping the Kits and Bricks Safe
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This year I decided to use black toolboxes for all the bricks I have in the classroom. It helps to keep it organized ...
Cassondra Zielinski Category Getting Started Aug '24
Pollyanna Cardoso
Produtos Lego
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How to be an educator representing Lego in Brazil? How can I buy Lego more
Pollyanna Cardoso Category Getting Started May '24
B Aurora RZ Valles
Lego Education México User Groups Global-Latam
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Eventos Comunitarios, talleres, actividades y recursos completamente en español para la comunidad Latín - ...
B Aurora RZ Valles Category Getting Started Feb '24
Andrea Milo
Architecture Week, April 14-20 and activities
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Excited to share the American Institute of Architects is celebrating Architecture Week and you can find some fun ...
Andrea Milo Category Getting Started Feb '24
J privat
Howto transfer data files from spike prime to PC / iPad - ...
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Hi, how can files created being on the spike prime hub file system be copied/transferred to the PC/iPad? ...
J privat Category Getting Started Dec '23
J privat J privat Dec '23

I did not get any reply here but want to share my result:

1. The current spike hub3 des not support this anymore.

2. The ...

Marek Lewandowski Marek Lewandowski Feb '24

@J privat
For the past years LEGO is increasingly locking their robotic solution to whatever they designed as ...

Jeanne Salchli
Lego Spike Prime Kit with Lego Spike Essential Lessons
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Can I use Lego Spike Essential lessons with the Lego Spike Prime kits? It seems to me that the Spike Essential ...
Jeanne Salchli Category Getting Started Jan '24
Andrea Weedman
Pretest or Posttest for Spike Prime
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Hi, Has anyone developed a pretest or posttest to use with their Spike Prime Units? I'm needing to start one to show ...
Andrea Weedman Category Getting Started Nov '23
Roel van der Linden
Can the LE BricQ instructions be found online?
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Is there a possibility having the building instructions for both BricQ sets online? I think the booklets are ...
Roel van der Linden Category Getting Started Nov '23
Roel van der Linden Roel van der Linden Nov '23

@Roel van der Linden

Found them when I had some spare time left over for a good search, for all others:

BricQ Prime - ...

Oliver Beyer
Python-API and -documentation in SPIKE-App
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Hi! I'm quite new to this community - and new to python, which I currently try to learn by using SPIKE Prime. However ...
Oliver Beyer Category Getting Started Aug '23
Ian Dudley Ian Dudley Oct '23

@Oliver Beyer I have used the Python version using the Inventor App that worked well. This might be of help. If you ...

Ian Dudley Ian Dudley Oct '23

@Oliver Beyer Have a look at this. What I did here was to provide a specific lesson only by cut and pasting them so ...

Oliver Beyer Oliver Beyer Nov '23

@Ian Dudley Hello Ian, sorry for the delayed response - haven’t visited this site for quite a while - and many thanks ...