LEGO Education Blasts Off with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Space Curriculum

Teach tomorrow's rocket scientists today with new activity pack that will take students to Mars and back NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: The EV3 Space Challenge Set & Activity Pack is designed for use with the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set and Software. The EV3 Space Challenge Set & Activity Pack is composed of 30+ hours of lessons, learning and challenge mats, and a large LEGO brick set for building challenging mission models. LEGO Education worked in conjunction with NASA engineers to develop activities that challenge students to explore and plan and develop how to ensure humans can survive in space, how humans can create energy in space, and how robots can help humans explor

Today, LEGO^® Education announced availability of the EV3 Space Challenge Set & Activity Pack for use with the LEGO MINDSTORMS^® Education EV3 Core Set and Software. The pack introduces students to robotics with a very current and real-world theme - traveling to and living on Mars. Students work as scientists and engineers as they progress through a set of lessons, challenges, and projects that fully integrate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts while prompting creative problem solving, communication, and teamwork.

The multimedia Activity Pack installs into the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Software and is accessible from the lobby for an integrated learning and programming experience. It includes detailed teacher notes that ease implementation by providing explanations, sample programs, ideas for differentiation, and more. The LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Content Editor features all the tools students need to document and present their findings and results as they progress through the material. This includes the challenge-based assessment that inspires students to self-evaluate their missions. There are three badge levels: master, expert, and perseverance. The assessment given is based on how well the student performs the challenge and is continually motivated to strive to the next level.

The Activity Pack's 30+ hours of activities include curriculum around:

• Basics of Gears: Students apply physical science and math principles to build effective robots.
• Learning Missions: Students progress through nine distinct missions in which they investigate, observe, calculate, and apply their knowledge to solve specific tasks.
• Challenge Missions: Students apply and creatively adapt programming and problem-solving skills to design and build robots to solve seven very different space challenges.
• Research Projects: Students explore, plan, and develop around three fundamental challenges NASA engineers and scientists are working to solve.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• For more information about the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Space Challenge Set & Activity Pack, please click here.
• For information on how to implement LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 in your school, or how to transition to EV3 from NXT, visit www.LEGOeducation.us/MINDSTORMS.

About LEGO Education

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