Minifigures in educational sets are a pretty heated topic that has its proponents (mostly kids) and opponents (mostly teachers). SPIKE Essential has 449 colorful bricks in total, four minifigures included. Bricks ¶īricks – the essence of every LEGO set. Lessons as usual, if slightly more irksome. Since most lessons for SPIKE™ Essential are short (45 mins), and building robots with this set is real quick, chances are that the sorting system will not impact your lesson plan schedule. However, this setback may not necessarily be reflected in overall lesson time. Well, your students will get familiar with this feeling. You know where they should be, yet you cannot see them. How much? Recall the last time you were looking for your keys. As a consequence, a purposeful building process (as opposed to creative) may be more bothersome for students. Finding the blue element you want in a crowd of blue takes more time. If your students sort the bricks themselves at the end of the lesson, you will surely appreciate this feature.Īre there any downsides? Unfortunately, yes. Yes, sorting bricks according to their color (yellow, orange, blue, red, green, purple, black&white) is fast. Understandable as it is, we simply must talk about the colors in SPIKE Essential, because of… the sorting trays. Of course, when discussing favorite colors, there is no accounting for taste. Subjectively, the colors in the new kit are a bit hodgepodge. We examine them all: colors, bricks, and electronics. They all influence the building process, not always in a positive way. Not only in terms of colors, or electronics, but also when it comes to individual bricks, or building systems incorporated into one product. That’s a big plus! Especially since this kit contains a lot of small elements, which tend to get lost, and rubber bands, ruthlessly tested and stretched by young learners.Įlements of SPIKE Essential are visibly different from the usual selection in LEGO Education products. In addition to the elements from the list, the box contains spare parts. Just put the stickers on and open the brick packets into the tray bricks come already sorted! Preparing one kit should take around 5 minutes. ProTip: If you want to unpack the kits with students, SPIKE Essential makes it easy. Like all the previous products from LEGO Education, bricks are all neatly packed in a plastic box and sorted, thanks to two color-coded sorting trays. Everything comes in a plastic box in size identical to SPIKE Prime.
Pick the aspect that interests you the most. Is it perhaps a jack of all trades and a master of…? Before we judge it too harshly, let’s take a look at the important features of this kit in the context of school education with focus on robotics and coding.
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Unlike previous series from LEGO Education, intended mainly for learning robotics and programming, SPIKE is a “cross-curricular STEAM solution”. However, SPIKE Essential is not a straightforward replacement for WeDo, it’s something else entirely.
In practice, this means that the electronics, bricks and even programming are compatible with SPIKE™ Prime – great! It is an important part of the official LEGO Learning System, which claims to be “a scalable learning system based on the familiar LEGO® brick”. SPIKE Essential is supposed to fill the educational void in early primary school. Spare parts are still available, for now. The Core Set is retired and the reserves are completely sold out in many countries. The old and proven WeDo 2.0 is now out of the picture. In this review, we examine every aspect of SPIKE Essential to understand why. The new educational robotics kit has arrived, but its welcome is saturated with mixed feelings. Out with the old, in with the new! SPIKE™ Essential by LEGO® Education is a recently launched set of bricks and electronics for kids in primary school education.
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