Icon- and word-based block coding using simple hardware – a Smart Hub with 2 ports, 2 small motors, a light matrix and a color sensor – brings students’ creations to life. The set also includes a colorful selection of familiar, age-appropriate LEGO bricks, replacement elements and a durable storage box with color-coded sorting trays to make the building process and classroom tidying up easier.

Featuring age-appropriate icon- and word-based coding built on Scratch, the SPIKE™ app helps develop students' coding skills.
As part of the LEGO Learning System, SPIKE Essential offers 5 units of 8 standardized 45-minute STEAM lessons. Each lesson includes complete online lesson plans with extensions for French-language mathematics.
Assessment rubrics and videos are also provided to assist teachers.
To build teachers' confidence and help them succeed in their STEAM lessons using the LEGO Learning System, SPIKE Essential is supported by a comprehensive professional development program.

Spike Essential Concept

• Develop computer logic skills, including creating and modifying sequences, testing, debugging and using loops.
• Explore the design study process, including defining a problem, brainstorming solutions, and testing and refining prototypes.
• Study the scientific concepts of energy, energy transfer and collision.
• Strengthen oral communication skills as students discuss their experiences collaboratively.
• Engage in story-based problem solving.
• Develop socio-emotional language by helping the hero of the story solve a problem.