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Then the pair was challenged to create a new rocket out of the twenty bricks, but the design had to incorporate at least one element from the two original designs. Students were then given three minutes to write a description of their rocket design.Īfter the build, students were asked to turn and talk with a shoulder partner, explaining the design and listening to the shoulder partner explain his or her design. Each child was tasked with building a rocket using only the bricks he or she had received (the base plate did not count toward the ten) in a five-minute time period. The bricks were randomly chosen and were put into snack-sized baggies so that they would not be dropped or lost. Build a Rocket ChallengeĮach student was handed a square base plate (as a building structure) and 10 LEGO bricks.

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I developed a series of cooperative challenges based on building a rocket. A third-grade educator, Julie Broadway at the Academy of Nola Dunn Elementary, invited me to come and share a brick challenge with her students who had recently been on a field learning experience at NASA in Houston.

As a learning technologies coach, I am tasked with working with Burleson ISD educators to implement technology in various forms across the curriculum. Every Master Educator was given the same six bricks, but the resulting ducks were anything but the same.įast forward to the 2018-19 school year. In these challenges, LEGO builders are asked to complete a variety of tasks, but are limited to using only six bricks.Īs a LEGO Education US Master Educator in the 2018 cohort meetup held in Chicago, I was challenged to create a duck using only six bricks. One way that the company encourages educators to use the popular construction tool is through the six brick challenge. LEGO has a wide variety of classroom applications.

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