Introducing FIRST® LEGO® League Class Packs

What is FIRST® LEGO® League?

The FIRST® LEGO® League program introduces children ages 4-16* to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through hands-on learning. It offers a global robotics program that guides participants in gaining real-world problem-solving skills, allowing students and teachers to collaborate and create a brighter future.

What are FIRST® LEGO® League Class Packs?

Flexible, high-quality Pre K-12 STEM learning experiences

FIRST Class Packs has been expertly crafted using evidence-based practices that incorporate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) principles, along with 21st century learning strategies. This versatile pack offers various implementation options for both classrooms and structured after-school programs.

FIRST LEGO League Discover

Empower young minds to learn, gain confidence, and collaborate with activities that tap into their innate curiosity. This program equips facilitators with the necessary tools and materials to lead students in discovering STEM through fun and play, utilizing the LEGO® Education STEAM Park.

FIRST LEGO League Explore

Engage in engineering basics with a curriculum featuring hands-on STEM tasks tailored to each age group. Using LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential, students will discover how to plan, program, and innovate to solve real-life issues with LEGO® bricks.

FIRST LEGO League Challenge

Engage students in immersive hands-on learning opportunities through research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering. Utilize a curriculum that encourages innovation and challenges students to design, build, and code a LEGO® robot powered by LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime to solve real-world problems.

Ignite Curiosity With Playful Learning

Nurture young minds with confidence, learning habits, and teamwork skills through our thoughtfully designed activities. Encourage curiosity and watch as they grow and develop into well-rounded individuals.

The FIRST® LEGO® League Discover Class Pack includes all the curriculum resources needed for educators and facilitators to lead 10 engaging sessions. Inspire and educate with the help of LEGO® Education's STEAM Park, promoting skills in science, technology, engineering, and math.

What’s Included with your Discover Class Pack Registration:

• Class Pack Guide
  Printed and digital resource that provides guidance, management tips, and best practices for how to implement FIRST LEGO League Discover  in the classroom and instructions on how to run your celebration event.
• Discover Sets
  Sets including exclusive  LEGO® DUPLO® elements students will use as a starting point to explore how STEM relates to their world.
• Engineering Notebooks
  Printed* student workbooks, also available digitally, that provide open spaces to write and draw ideas to the provided prompts. Children can use their engineering notebooks at the final event to share what they created.

• Team Meeting Guide
  Printed comprehensive guide, also available digitally, that provides educators and facilitators with guidance and lesson plans on how to run the 10 sessions and culminating event celebration. It includes expected student outcomes, educator tips, connected vocabulary, and playful learning.
• Session Slides
  Series of slides for each session that contain real-world connections such as videos, images, and helpful questions to guide students through each session.

What’s Required to use with the Discover Class Pack?

LEGO® Education STEAM Park

LEGO® Education STEAM Park encourages young learners to use their innate curiosity and love for building and exploring to discover the exciting world of STEAM - science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Watch as children develop an understanding of gears, motion, and measurement while working together to create an imaginative STEAM park filled with interactive rides, games, and scenes using specially selected LEGO® DUPLO® bricks. The possibilities are endless and the learning is endless fun.

• Develop Foundational STEAM Skills in Preschool
  LEGO® Education STEAM Park encourages children's natural curiosity and love for exploration with STEAM Park. This resource easily adapts to any learning environment, providing a fun way to learn about early STEAM topics.
• Focus on STEAM Skills
  Explore endless possibilities together as we create a vibrant STEAM Park filled with exciting rides, engaging games, and imaginative scenes using the unique LEGO DUPLO bricks. Join us and let your creativity run wild!

• Lesson Plans
  LEGO Learning Solutions are carefully crafted to spark inquisitiveness and seamlessly blend into your classroom - offering over 25 activities for early learning that promote learning through the power of play.
• All In One Box
  The set comes with 295 DUPLO bricks, which feature gears, tracks, pulleys, boats, and figures. Additionally, there is a Getting Started activity card and 8 double-sided inspiration cards included. Each visit to STEAM Park allows children to further their knowledge of gears, motion, measurement, and collaborative problem-solving in a stimulating and enjoyable manner.

FREE Resources

Lesson Plans

Explore up to 400+ lessons with everything you need from what sets you need to building instructions.

Professional Development

A custom educational program that motivates teachers to acquire, hone & perfect skillsets to foster enjoyable, active STEAM instructions.

Support Page

Receiving exceptional support and guidance when it comes to technical issues is critical. That's why LEGO® Education have developed a Troubleshooting Page to make things easier and to ensure a seamless experience with these educational resources.

Connect to the World Through STEM!

Develop essential computational thinking and engineering skills with a comprehensive in-class and after-school curriculum that connects students to the world through STEM subjects such as science, technology, engineering, and math.

The FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Class Pack includes curriculum and instructions for educators and facilitators to guide students through 12 sessions. These sessions are designed to introduce the basics of engineering through real-world problem-solving using LEGO® bricks and the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential. Students will gain valuable skills in design, coding, and creating unique solutions.

What’s Included with your Explore Class Pack Registration:

• Class Pack Guide
  Printed and digital resource that provides guidance, management tips, and best practices for how to implement FIRST LEGO League Explore in the classroom and instructions on how to run your festival event.
  
• Engineering Notebooks
  Printed student workbooks, also available digitally, that are used to record ideas, notes, and sketches for the 12 sessions
• Session Slides
  Series of slides for each session that contain real-world connections such as videos, images, and helpful questions to guide students through each session.

• Explore Sets
  Sets include 700+ LEGO elements that help students bring their model to life with the LEGO Education SPIKE Essential.
• Team Meeting Guide
  Digital comprehensive guide that provides facilitators with guidance and lesson plans on how to run 12 sessions – including an introduction activity, session tasks, and team sharing of what they learned and accomplished. Also includes student outcomes, tips, guiding questions, sharing guidance, and clean up pointers.

What’s Required to use with the Explore Class Pack?

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential Set

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential provides students in years 1-5 with interactive STEAM learning opportunities, promoting literacy, mathematics, and socio-emotional growth. Through engaging learning units that feature everyday topics and relatable LEGO minifigures, students can utilize building elements to create stories and tackle real-world problems.

• True Cross-Curricular STEAM Solution
  SPIKE Essential lessons are thoughtfully crafted to promote holistic child development - from literacy and mathematics to social-emotional learning - within a STEAM environment. Such lessons are organized in a clear structure, offering built-in scaffolding to help students become independent STEAM problem-solvers.
  
• Engaging Problem-Solving Activities with Relatable Minifigures
  Motivate primary students to explore STEAM topics with hands-on activities that instantly capture the attention of this age group. With everyday themes, personified minifigures, and the power of storytelling, students can actively engage to solve problems and gain a deeper understanding.

• Progression of Learning Year After Year
  Progress students' learning and development through the years with LEGO Bricks, hardware and an intuitive programming interface moving from icon to word blocks. Set the foundation for additional advanced capability by utilizing the same app and unified learning unit structure with SPIKE Prime.
• Unlimited Learning Opportunities
  Familiarize students and teachers with the LEGO® Learning System's comprehensive array of integrated products by utilizing SPIKE Essential. Amplify learning possibilities and motivate students by joining SPIKE Essential with other tools such as BricQ Motion.

FREE Resources

Lesson Plans

Explore up to 400+ lessons with everything you need from what sets you need to building instructions.

Professional Development

A custom educational program that motivates teachers to acquire, hone & perfect skillsets to foster enjoyable, active STEAM instructions.

Support Page

Receiving exceptional support and guidance when it comes to technical issues is critical. That's why LEGO® Education have developed a Troubleshooting Page to make things easier and to ensure a seamless experience with these educational resources.

Innovate, Create, and Share

Engage students in relevant, rigorous learning opportunities through research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering. They will be challenged to use LEGO® robotics to design, build, and code an innovative solution to a real-world problem and complete themed missions.

The FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge Class Pack provides everything educators and facilitators need to guide their students through 12 sessions. They'll have the opportunity to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and robotics, while also creating an innovative solution to a real-world problem related to the season's theme.

What’s Included with your Explore Class Pack Registration:

• Class Pack Guide
  Printed and digital resource that provides guidance, management tips, and best practices for how to implement FIRST LEGO League Challenge in the classroom and instructions on how to run your tournament.
• Challenge Sets
  Themed robot game mat and exclusive sets of LEGO® elements to build season-specific mission models needed to complete the robot game.
• Robot Game Rulebooks
  Printed and digital guides for adults and students with everything they need for the MASTERPIECE robot game. Each guide contains field set-up instructions, descriptions of each mission, and the rules student teams must follow during the preparation, action, and scoring. 

• Team Meeting Guide
  Digital comprehensive guide provides educators and facilitators with guidance and lesson plans on how to run 12 sessions and end with a culminating celebration. It includes student outcomes, tips, cleanup pointers, and checkpoints to monitor the team's progress.
• Session Slides
  Series of slides for each session that contain real-world connections such as videos, images, and helpful questions to guide students through each session.

What’s Required to use with the Challenge Class Pack?

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set

The LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set is the recommended STEAM learning resource for secondary school students. Using colorful LEGO elements, user-friendly hardware, and an easy-to-use drag-and-drop Scratch-based coding language, SPIKE Prime encourages students to think critically and solve complex problems.

• Engaging Problem Solving with Real World Relevance
  SPIKE Prime equips learners with the skills to solve problems effectively. Critical thinking, data analysis, and decomposition of difficult tasks into manageable chunks are techniques students learn with this set. By breaking down complex issues, they can then prototype creative solutions with true relevance to reality.
• SPIKE Prime Motivates Students to Become Confident Creators
  Students are inspired to experiment, construct, and iterate with LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime. This set provides a secure space for them to construct prototypes and develop creative solutions to real-world problems. As they tinker and learn, they cultivate resilience in the face of failure, preparing them for the dynamic future ahead.
• Confident Students Start with Confident Teachers
  SPIKE Prime is accompanied by user-friendly "Getting Started" guides and STEAM learning activities that meet standards-based objectives. Additionally, a comprehensive, competency-based professional development program is provided to help educators foster successful STEAM learning experiences that can help their students thrive.

• Apply Real-World Programming with Python
  SPIKE Prime empowers students to discover Python, a customary programming language notable for its straightforward syntax and comprehensibility. Proficiency in Python lays the groundwork for delving into more complex topics such as algorithms, data structures, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).
• Explore the Power of Data-Science
  Students can explore a variety of data science topics with SPIKE Prime. They gain a comprehension of the connection between variables as well as introductory knowledge of data science fundamentals like linear connections and data categorisation. Engaging lessons around practical weather data applications and the generation of real-world data using motion help to facilitate the learning process.
• Create a Foundation for Learning About AI
  SPIKE Prime introduces students to concepts relevant to AI, such as utilizing the Hub's accelerometer to examine physical movement and the Gyro Sensor to monitor and evaluate movements crucial to recognizing human activities.

LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Expansion Set

Featuring more than 600 LEGO pieces, this set is equipped with large wheels, gear racks, a Colour Sensor and Large Motor, a Maker Plate for convenient assembly with desired SBC devices, and more. Used in combination with the SPIKE Prime Set and its complimentary SPIKE App, users can embark on a captivating robotics journey with upwards of 10 hours of curriculum-aligned, competition-ready lessons.

FREE Resources

Lesson Plans

Explore up to 400+ lessons with everything you need from what sets you need to building instructions.

Professional Development

A custom educational program that motivates teachers to acquire, hone & perfect skillsets to foster enjoyable, active STEAM instructions.

Support Page

Receiving exceptional support and guidance when it comes to technical issues is critical. That's why LEGO® Education have developed a Troubleshooting Page to make things easier and to ensure a seamless experience with these educational resources.