Roll it, Build it, LEGO Fun!
In this lesson, children will roll the dice and build their LEGO creations.
Learning Goals:
This lesson will help children meet the following educational standards:
- Develop beginning skills in the use of science and engineering practices such as observing, asking questions, solving problems, and drawing conclusions
- Understand important connections and concepts in science and engineering
Learning Targets:
After this lesson, children should be more proficient at:
- Expressing wonder and curiosity about their world by asking questions and solving problems
- Developing and using models to represent their ideas, observations and explanations through activities such as drawing, building or modeling with clay
- Using mathematical and computational thinking
- Generating explanations and communicating ideas and/or conclusions about their investigations
Step 1: Gather materials.
- LEGO bricks or Duplos blocks, including mini-figures and vehicles
- Dice
- Divided condiment tray with six sections and a circle center
- Marker
- Optional: LEGO base plate (helpful, but not necessary)
Step 2: Introduce activity.
- Explain that today the children are going to roll the dice and build LEGO creations.
- Write the numbers 1-6 on the divided tray.
- Fill the sections of your tray with different types of LEGO bricks, figures and vehicles.
- Include many mini-figures. Children tend to create more stories when they have more figures to add to their creations.
- Place the die in the center of the tray.
Step 3: Engage children in lesson activities.
- Explain that the game begins with the youngest child using the center section to roll the die.
- When the child rolls a number, the child must select a brick to build with from the tray section with the corresponding number.
- Play passes to the next player.
- Play ends when there are no bricks left or when the children decide that their creation is complete.
Step 4: Engineering vocabulary
- Attribute: A feature of an object
- Base: The part of a building that sits on the ground
- Combine: To add materials together to create a new, changed material
- Design: To create a plan for something that will be built
- Test: To try out an idea to see if it works or not
Suggested Books
- Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale
- When I Build With Blocks by Niki Alling
Music and Movement
Outdoor Connections
Web Resources
- Check out this Roll and Build LEGO game for kids at No Time for Flash Cards.
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