Monday, June 12, 2017

Learning with Legos



Many of the teachers I serve at Concrete Primary and Powdersville Elementary have started to use Legos for learning in the classroom. For the 2017-18 school year, each of our district K3-1st grade teachers will receive a Duplo StoryTales Kit from Lego Education, and our 2nd-5th grade teachers will receive the LearnToLearn Core Set for the classroom. In order to help our teachers get started, our team planned for hands-on professional development during our annual summer in-service last week.

Primary Lego StoryTales Session

For our early kinders, we had a couple of hours with teachers and assistants, so we planned eight stations with two fun "brain breaks." To allow for teachers to share their creations with one another and participate in a true student experience, we created a Seesaw classroom which was also shared among teachers in our other primary sessions throughout the day. Click HERE to view our Seesaw Blog full of teacher creations!


Our session with first grade was only one hour, so we reduced the number of tasks and changed the content to be more aligned with first grade standards. Though the time was shortened, teachers were still provided with plenty of time to play, create, and post to our Seesaw classroom.



Teachers were very excited to have a chance to play with the kits they'll be receiving in August, and feedback from the session was great. To capture teacher feedback, we created the Padlet Wall below!

Made with Padlet

Elementary Lego LearnToLearn Session

Our district Reading Coaches facilitated some cooperative planning sessions for teachers in grades 3-5, and it was exciting to be able to provide them with a one hour "play break." During these sessions, we provided each teacher with a small bag of Legos and sample tasks for each content area from the Lego Education curriculum. Then, the teachers were given time to collaborate and create using the Legos and Seesaw. Click HERE to see the Elementary Lego Seesaw Blog for teacher creations!


Tweets from the Session










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