FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Digital Resources
Welcome to the digital resources for the DCU - Teacher Guide for Ireland. Here you will find all of the digital resources mentioned in your guide for you to use within your classroom. Links to downloadable/printable resources are also within each lesson below
- Lesson 1
- Lesson 2
- Lesson 3
- Lesson 4
- Lesson 5
- Lesson 6
- Lesson 7
- Lesson 8
- Lesson 9 & 10
- Lesson 11 & 12
- Lesson 13
- Lesson 14
- Section A
Purpose:
Learners will consider energy in their everyday lives including what energy is, where it comes from and how it travels.
Digital Resources:
Printable picture and caption matching activity - Journey of Electricity
Sample energy Journey
Printable Energy Audit for Classroom/School
Energy Journey:
Video: How is energy made and delivered to your home
Video: Solar energy for kids: Learn how electricity works
Video: The path of electricity
Video: How is energy generated and how does sit get to our homes
Google Earth Project: Journey of Electricity to Oldcastle Co. Meath
Google Earth Project: Journey of Electricity from Aghada Gas Power Station to Cobh Co. Cork
Purpose:
Learners will identify and explore the advantages and disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable sources of energy.
Digital Resources:
Purpose:
Learners will examine wind as a source of energy. They will develop an understanding of how wind is formed and consider the factors that impact the location of a wind farm.
Digital Resources
Discussion Images for Lesson 3
Measure Wind Around our School
Additional Useful Links:
Purpose:
Learners will examine how wind turbines function.
Learners will build the LEGO wind turbine and explore how it works.
Digital Resources:
Discussion Images for Lesson 4
Wind Turbines - How they work videos
Wind Turbine detailed video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHUJqTT3THU
How Wind Turbines Work TEDed:How do wind turbines work? - Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor
Wind Turbine Video Tours
360-Degree video tour: Wind turbine inside and out https://youtu.be/GvnDSGGYUcE
Tour of Wind Turbine, narrated by Engineer: Tour A (Wind) Turbine - #RoundIsAShape (U.S. Department of Energy) GoPr
Purpose:
Learners will explore how energy is stored and distributed.
Digital Resources:
Purpose:
Learners will be introduced to the LEGO Education Set (SPIKE Essential or WeDo 2.0).
Learners will be introduced to a simple block-based coding language.
Learners will build and code a motorised LEGO robot.
Digital Resources:
Teacher links to videos/builds - to be added later if needed
Discussion Images for Lesson 5
Purpose:
Learners will be introduced to sensors and their associated coding blocks.
Learners will build and code a LEGO robot which uses/responds to a sensor.
Learners will begin to consider how sensors could enhance the safety of their LEGO builds.
Digital Resources:
Discussion Images for Lesson 7
Purpose:
Learners will build and code a motorised LEGO vehicle and then adapt it into an ‘Electric Car’ in order to explore an example of energy consumption.
Digital Resources:
Images of consumer cars; electric and fossil fuel
Discussion Images for Lesson 8
Purpose:
In teams, learners will create a Team Model that shows ‘Better ways to source, store, and use energy’. Their Team Model can address a specific part of the energy journey, or all of it.
Digital Resources:
Digital Voting/Response Tool to support planning and brainstorming (e.g. Mentimeter, Sli.do)
Purpose:
In teams, learners will plan, design and create their Team Poster to support their Team Model.
Digital Resources:
Digital Poster software (e.g. Canva, Slides, piktochart)
Digital Voting/Response Tool to support planning and brainstorming (e.g. Mentimeter, Sli.do)
Purpose:
In teams, learners will plan for how they will share their Team Model and Team Poster at the final event.
Digital Resources:
Reviewing Sheet and Questions for Final Celebration Event
Purpose:
Learners will reflect upon the SUPERPOWERED lessons, their Team Model and Poster, and their understanding of energy journeys.
Digital Resources:
Discussion images for Lesson 14
Purpose:
Section A of the DCU - Teacher Guide for Ireland provides the context for FIRST LEGO League Explore.
Within this section you will find the learning principles behind the Explore programme, connections with the Irish Primary Curriculum, the Digital Learning Framework, School Self-Evaluation and the Draft Primay Curriculum Framework.