FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK)

Senior Infants

Rathfarnham, Dublin

The Programme

FIRST® LEGO® League shows young people what it means to be an engineer and work with STEM skills and subjects, but focuses on practical, hand-on learning, so they are doing, not watching. FIRST® LEGO® League Discover is designed for 4-6 year-olds and develops children’s STEM skills from an early age. Delivered in school by the class teacher, children work in groups of four to explore a real-world theme with an exclusive LEGO® Discover model. Using this model as a starting point, they design and build new models of their own with LEGO® STEAM Park bricks. Working through a series of tasks and challenges, the programme finishes with a celebration event to recognise the children’s achievements.

As they work, they develop valuable habits of learning, such as persisting with tasks and applying previous knowledge to new situations. Throughout their experience, teams operate under the FIRST® LEGO® League core values, celebrating discovery and teamwork, all while having fun! Skills are also developed at home with the Discover More set: a take-home resource consisting of two sets of DUPLO® Six Bricks to continue learning at home with parents and carers.

Children get the chance to showcase their learning journey at the end of the programme with a Celebration Event, which involves building, a special challenge and talking about what they have learnt with parents and other adults. Their hard work and perseverance are celebrated with a certificate and lots of high fives!

What you can do

Teachers are fully supported with comprehensive resources available to download on the IET Teacher Resources webpage, including image banks to use within sessions, session and training videos, and curriculum grids.

You can sign up here, and if you're in a location with funding, complete the 30 Day Challenge to get grant funding to cover all the costs associated with delivering the programme in your school. The team at Learnit (Ireland) or the IET (UK) will support you through the process.

The Programme

FIRST® LEGO® League shows young people what it means to be an engineer and work with STEM skills and subjects, but focuses on practical, hand-on learning, so they are doing, not watching. FIRST® LEGO® League Discover is designed for 4-6 year-olds and develops children’s STEM skills from an early age. Delivered in school by the class teacher, children work in groups of four to explore a real-world theme with an exclusive LEGO® Discover model. Using this model as a starting point, they design and build new models of their own with LEGO® STEAM Park bricks. Working through a series of tasks and challenges, the programme finishes with a celebration event to recognise the children’s achievements.

As they work, they develop valuable habits of learning, such as persisting with tasks and applying previous knowledge to new situations. Throughout their experience, teams operate under the FIRST® LEGO® League core values, celebrating discovery and teamwork, all while having fun! Skills are also developed at home with the Discover More set: a take-home resource consisting of two sets of DUPLO® Six Bricks to continue learning at home with parents and carers.

Children get the chance to showcase their learning journey at the end of the programme with a Celebration Event, which involves building, a special challenge and talking about what they have learnt with parents and other adults. Their hard work and perseverance are celebrated with a certificate and lots of high fives!

What you can do

Teachers are fully supported with comprehensive resources available to download on the IET Teacher Resources webpage, including image banks to use within sessions, session and training videos, and curriculum grids.

You can sign up here, and if you're in a location with funding, complete the 30 Day Challenge to get grant funding to cover all the costs associated with delivering the programme in your school. The team at Learnit (Ireland) or the IET (UK) will support you through the process.

Sadhbh Mc Crann
Sadhbh Mc Crann
about 1 year edlule

As a result of receiving the kits - children have become really interested in Lego, building and construction. They have learnt to work better collaboratively and have become better at communicating their ideas. They have received a lovely introduction to STEM with age appropriate activities that will aid them in the coming years for our program that goes up the school using Lego wedo kits and spike.
In June the parents are coming to attend a showcase - although I have sharing the children's journeys on our school platform with already. The kits are are now being used by another class and will be used by other classes before the end of the year. We hope to have 6 classes of around 25 children in each have used the kits before the end of the school year. Next year we will be able to have more children involved

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Sadhbh Mc Crann
Sadhbh Mc Crann
over 1 year edlule

Action plan: To develop our STEM programme as a whole school approach using Lego.

 

Timeline:


  • We would like to begin this in term two. Hopefully starting as soon as we receive the equipment

  • The team will meet twice a month to see how it is progressing.

  • We would hope that we could have a show case in May.



Budget:


  • We would like to get as many kits as possible so that as many children as possible could be involved. The costs would mainly involve the equipment but any other equipment that might enhance their projects might be an option.

Impact:


  • As we hope to have 3 projects running in our school (this is our first) We hope that by introducing the younger classes to FIRST LEGO – they would have a foundation then for when they move up the school and use the other kits that are suitable for the specific ages. We currently use Lego we do in our senior classes but would love other classes in the school to be part of it.

  • We hope to have the whole school involved in some way. Either by being part of the project or coming to the showcase.

  • We are hoping to increase knowledge and develop interest. As an girl’s school we are always trying to encourage an interest in STEM. It will also be great to have the parents come in and see what the girls are doing.



Location:

Our project will be run in the classrooms.

 

Covid safety - As a school we have all policies in place to stay safe. 

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Aoife Coakley joinile Senior Infants a FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK) iqembu over 1 year edlule
Dawn Farrell joinile Senior Infants a FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK) iqembu over 1 year edlule
Nikki Malone joinile Senior Infants a FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK) iqembu over 1 year edlule
Lisa O'Neill joinile Senior Infants a FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK) iqembu over 1 year edlule
Sadhbh Mc Crann joinile Senior Infants a FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK) iqembu over 1 year edlule

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