LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential engages elementary school students and immerses them in hands-on STEAM learning. As part of the LEGO Learning System, this play- and story-based experience lets children explore STEAM concepts while strengthening literacy, math and social-emotional skills.
The 449-piece set features four minifigures with distinct personalities who act as storytellers, making problem-solving accessible and relatable for every learner. Block-based coding with icons and words, together with simple hardware — a 2-port Smart Hub, two small motors, an LED matrix and a color sensor — brings students’ creations to life. Age-appropriate LEGO elements, spare parts and a durable storage box with color-coded trays simplify building and classroom management.
Within the LEGO Learning System, SPIKE Essential offers 5 standards-aligned modules of 8 STEAM lessons each. Every lesson includes detailed online guides, math and literacy extensions, assessment tools and teacher-support videos. An extensive professional-development program helps educators teach STEAM with confidence using the LEGO Learning System.
• Key Features
• Four minifigures with unique personalities foster problem-solving and social-emotional learning.
• Hardware includes two small motors, a color sensor, a 3 × 3 LED matrix and a compact Smart Hub with two I/O ports, Bluetooth, a 6-axis gyro and a rechargeable Li-ion battery (micro-USB charging).
• All 449 pieces include familiar LEGO bricks and spare elements for intuitive, easy building.
• Durable storage box with color-coded trays keeps the classroom organized.
• The SPIKE™ app uses icon- and word-based Scratch coding to build students’ programming skills.
• Five eight-lesson modules promote independent STEAM thinking through playful, narrative problem-solving.
• Comprehensive teaching resources give educators confidence to deliver engaging lessons.
• Core Learning Values
• Develop computational thinking: create and modify sequences, test, debug and use loops.
• Master the engineering design process: define problems, brainstorm solutions, test and refine prototypes.
• Explore scientific ideas of energy, energy transfer and collisions; strengthen oral communication through group discussions of experiments.
• Participate in narrative-based problem-solving.
• Build social-emotional language by helping the story’s main character resolve challenges.
