School Workshops
Who We Are… Learn it Educational Solutions Ltd. are the official partners of LEGO® Education in Ireland. We provide services for schools such as Student Workshops, Distribution of LEGO Education products and LEGO Education Academy Training. Under our sister brand, Build2Learn.com, we also provide summer camps, birthday workshops and weekend workshops. We are Ireland’s only LEGO Education Partner, of which we are very proud of. We have been working with them for the past four years to bring LEGO Education to schools in Ireland. All our instructors are trained to LEGO Education Academy standards are fully Garda Vetted. We have a full child protection policy in place and are fully insured.
LEGO® Education has been creating solutions for pre-schools and classrooms for 30 years. The skills and techniques that the LEGO System for Learning embodies meet many of the needs of 21st century learners. LEGO Education solutions enable students to be active, creative and collaborative solution-seekers. In this way their instinct to learn is stimulated, and they are motivated to apply their learning in new contexts, which means that they embark on a self-directed learning process. We call this being ‘LEGO Smart™’. LEGO Smart students use LEGO bricks and digital tools to solve problems creatively and to excel at working with others and thinking critically. By working in this way, they develop their understanding and ability to retain knowledge of key curriculum concepts, and therefore do well in school and on high-stakes tests.
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Planning Your School Visit… Over the next few pages you’ll see details of the various workshops we can offer you. There are a number of ways we can organise a visit to your school. Every school is different and each of our workshop packages can be tailored to meet your needs. We can run multiple workshops over the course of one or more days so that every class in the school gets to participate or we can run longer sessions for 1-2 classes spanning over the course of a day or more.
Workshop Requirements In order to make our workshops run as smoothly as possible we do have a number of recommendations and requirements. Class Sizes: The ideal class size for each workshop is 20 children or less. While we can accommodate more, the students will get more from the workshops with classes of these sizes. Our maximum class size is 34 students; for larger classes we recommend splitting the class into two separate workshops or running longer workshops. Location: Ideally we will be located in one room for the duration of the workshops, children will come from their classes to us to partake in the workshops. This way we can set the room up for the duration of the workshops and save on time between workshops. Projectors/whiteboards would be a bonus (but not a necessity), as we do have slide shows/demos we can show the students. For furniture we would require enough tables for children to work comfortably at, chairs are not a necessity as we’ve found the children tend to stand while participating at our workshops, but for longer workshops having them as an option would be recommended.
Booking For further information on what we can do for you feel free to contact us at info@learnit.ie or by phone at Dublin 01-5240004 or Cork 021-2430000.
Are you LEGO Smart? To make a booking contact Learn it @ 01 5240004 or 021 2430000 or email schools@learnit.ie
Our Workshops… We offer a range of in-school workshops. Our qualified insturctors will come to your school, lots of LEGO in hand, to run some fun-packed workshops for your students.
Junior & Senior Infants Our Early Learning workshops are suitable for Junior and Senior Infants. School Start themes are based on LEGO Education kits using Duplo bricks. As children build and test their models, they explore the ways in which familiar objects work. They experiment with concepts such as force and motion, balance, stability and buoyancy.
1st, 2nd & 3rd Class Our WeDo™ (Junior Robotics) workshops are suitable for 1st-3rd Class. WeDo® Junior Robotics is perfect for introducing robotics to young children. It encourages playful learning where children build fun LEGO models with motors and sensors. They then connect them to a computer to program behaviour. Our WeDo workshops enable students to learn, construct and use the motion and tilt sensors along with the drag and drop software to bring their models to life...
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Example Workshops… Below are some examples of the workshops we offer; we can of course customise each workshop to your school’s needs...
Junior & Senior Infants 60 min - Early Machines & Mechanisms: Spinning Top Children build a spinning top and launcher and learn how gearing and balance will affect it’s motion. Measuring Car Children build a push car and learn how to measure distances and see how gears work.
1st, 2nd & 3rd Class 60 min - WeDo (Junior Robotics): Penalty Shoot out Children build kickers & keepers and learn about sensors, motion, calculating distance, predictions and have a penalty shoot out competition. Spinning Top Children build a motorised spinning top, using a sensor to control the motor and learn how gearing can increase and decrease speed. They also learn about programming loops and timing.
Are you LEGO Smart? To make a booking contact Learn it @ 01 5240004 or 021 2430000 or email schools@learnit.ie
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3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Class Our Machines & Mechanisms workshops are suitable for 3rd-6th Class. Our workshops help students deepen their understanding of how forces can affect motion and explore concepts of energy. Students build complex mechanisms and use them to make accurate observations, measurements and records and even design their own solutions.
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Example Workshops… Below are some examples of the workshops we offer; we can of course customise each workshop to your school’s needs...
3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Class 75 min - Machines & Mechanisms: Power Car Children build a power car and investigate the effects of gear ratios, friction and wheel diameter. Children will predict and measure their cars speed and alter it’s wheel size and gear ratio to see the effects they have. Land Yacht Children build a land yacht and learn about how the surface area of the sails will affect how the yacht travels. Children will calculate surface areas and work out the optimum area for the perfect sail.
5th & 6th Class & 1st - 6th Year 90 min - Mindstorms EV3: Robotic Car Course Challenge Children build a motorised car and will learn about measuring rotations, finding circumferences and plotting. They will then program their car to complete one of our courses. Inspection Challenge Children will build a motorised vehicle and with the aid of sensors will datalog the movement of their vehicle in order to obtain measurements to complete the challenge.
Are you LEGO Smart? To make a booking contact Learn it @ 01 5240004 or 021 2430000 or email schools@learnit.ie
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