Summer Camps Lego Education
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Summer Camps Lego Education
Country:
Slovakia
Education level:
Primary Education
Year start:
2022
Status:
Ongoing
Short summary:
During the summer holidays, we try to reach as many children as possible and motivate them to playfully learn the most necessary skills by organizing and conducting SUMMER LEGO CAMPS. LEGO® Education STEAM solutions support development through real projects. Its essence is the challenges taken from everyday life, their transfer into experiments and tasks, and the creation of connections between natural science subjects.
Description and objectives:
During the summer holidays, we try to reach as many children as possible and motivate them to playfully learn the most necessary skills by organizing and conducting SUMMER LEGO CAMPS. LEGO® Education STEAM solutions support development through real projects. Its essence is the challenges taken from everyday life, their transfer into experiments and tasks, and the creation of connections between natural science subjects.
The LearnIT team wants to do their part in building a sustainable future and creating a better world that our children will inherit. We visited schools and kindergartens to provide space for the children of today to become the builders of tomorrow
We are currently preparing for cooperation with the EDULAB Academy, which is the official provider of innovative education based on the license issued by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Slovak Republic.
Objectives
- We strive to support teachers in their everyday educational activities. We also aim to offer playful learning opportunities for different age groups with the help of our LEGO® Education programs as well as develop almost the entire range of cognitive abilities. And last but not least, we playfully teach children the basics of programming.
- The results achieved are assessed with the help of level assessment tests to be completed at the beginning and end of the school year, and in the case of camps, with the help of questionnaires filled out by parents.
Reach:
Currently, with the summer LEGO camps, approx. 60 children were reached, and 15 schools and kindergartens currently participate in our LEGO Education program during the school year
Our goal is to double the number of cooperating institutions every year and involve as many educational institutions as possible in our program.
Impact:
Our program develops almost the entire range of cognitive abilities: the analysis-synthesis thinking process, the durability and depth of attention, the ability to observe and remember (remember previous experiences and use them to solve the next task), abstraction (the finished building does not have to be exactly like it is in real life, it is also possible to symbolically indicate what we want), the creative imagination, etc. In addition to these, we develop another 24 skills, and we also motivate teachers to use LEGO and other toys in various educational areas. Our specific objective regarding our program is to integrate the STEAM education method into the education system. No independent impact assessment studies have yet been prepared
Budget and funding model:
Currently, in most institutions, the program is financed by the parents for their own children (in the case of paid school courses and summer camps). Some institutions finance the sessions from their own resources, but we also provide opportunities for sponsors to support the program.