I think the biggest difference between Lego and all off-campus education is abstract and not specific. Unlike you who study English, you will know that I have studied English, and learning art means learning art. If you want to learn happily, parents intuitively think that their children have learned building blocks.
Lego education is actually to complete the learning of children's STEM courses through the use of Lego teaching AIDS and the construction of models. Building is the teaching process of Lego, not the teaching purpose. And our teaching AIDS are Lego bricks and toys commonly known by parents.
But there are also many special teaching AIDS, such as screwdrivers, screws, tires, tracks, including propellers, various suspenders, gears, bushings, turbines, worms and so on.
1. What does Lego bring to children?
1, the cultivation of thinking mode
Scientists say that children's hands (especially children under 7 years old) are children's brains. When the child's hand is trying, the brain is actually accumulating a lot of experience. Cultivate children's logical thinking, creativity and problem-solving ability through "hands-on" in Lego class.
Although children can imitate, they don't like to imitate others. They like to have their own style and often have some unusual opinions, answers, intentions and achievements. For example, let children build a car and slide down a slope at the same height to see which car runs farthest. Children will constantly try to change the weight of the car body, the size of the wheels, and even the overall structure of the car body, from a four-wheeled vehicle to a tricycle and so on.
2, the cultivation of observation and concentration
Playing high can cultivate children's observation and concentration. Children may only know that the wheels are round when they take a car, but when they sit by themselves, they find that the wheels are made up of wheels and tires. And kids with excavators and bulldozers. At first, they would put the bucket at the back of the cockpit, because my father always sits in the front when driving at home, but it was not until it was built that it was wrong. The bucket should be installed in front of the cockpit to facilitate the driver's operation. Build it by hand, compare it with reality, and then explore the reasons. Children's observation ability will be improved, and their creativity and problem-solving ability will also be improved.
3. Character cultivation
Playing high is also very helpful for children's character cultivation. If a child has done his own actions and failed, his endurance, anti-frustration ability and cooperation ability will be much stronger; Through this process, the child will know that doing things is not so easy, and his tolerance and endurance will be better.
Second, the big secret of Lego curriculum
Lego bricks can be played at home or brought to Lego class. What's the difference between them? Generally speaking, toys highlight fun and make children have fun; Education highlights hard fun, that is, the process of playing is challenging.
1. First of all, the equipment is different. Most toys are Debao series, Lego City, hero factory and so on, which can be built according to the construction drawing. Lego educational equipment has its own unique spare parts, such as gears, turbines, levers and EV3 robots. The educational version of the equipment will be educational.
2. Secondly, from the perspective of children's play, there is no essential difference between buying Lego toys by themselves and playing Lego toys in the early education function room, but it is often casual and interesting for children to play at home by themselves; The advantage of Lego education institutions is that the curriculum is jointly developed by R&D Department of Lego Education, scientists and educational psychologists from famous universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge, and a scientific curriculum system is formulated according to children's cognitive development, aiming at the interests of children of different ages, such as 3-year-old children's self-cognition and community understanding, and 4-6-year-old children's external understanding such as technology and space. 7 to 8 years old is a series of science and technology; Over 9 years old is a brainstorming robot.
Lego prepares courses according to the interests of different age groups, which are divided into preschool and school-age stages. The learning content is different, and the system is rising step by step.
A. Preschool children: the educational development view of complete children
Preschool is a period in which children's language, intelligence, thinking, imagination and other abilities develop rapidly in their life. It is also a critical period for the formation of children's personality and a golden period for their development. The most important thing for children in this period is to provide them with rich and suitable intellectual toys to inspire and satisfy their unknown desires.
Therefore, Lego education in this period is a "complete concept of children's educational development", that is, to cultivate children in an all-round way, so that children can cultivate their knowledge, intelligence, emotion, limbs and abilities in the process of Lego construction and lay the foundation for their lifelong development.
B. School-age children: introducing multidisciplinary knowledge and social activities
School-age children, that is, children aged 7 to 12 in primary school, have been able to understand more abstract knowledge, have simple logical reasoning ability and have the ability to participate in some social activities independently. Therefore, Lego education has added some complicated subject knowledge, such as machinery, structure, engineering, robot programming and so on, to the curriculum after the age of 7. Social activities such as collecting and analyzing data, logical operation, planning and arranging activities, and participating in large-scale robot competitions have been added to the ability training.
The curriculum of school-age children is mainly designed according to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) curriculum standards in the United States. There are also courses in power machinery, green energy, aerodynamics, and finally to robotics. These courses teach children scientific knowledge step by step, and at the same time cultivate their spirit of scientific experiments that are not afraid of failure.
Finally, we talked about the help of Lego in cultivating children's character. Playing well with children, there is a process of learning and interaction between children, which can cultivate children's ability of cooperation and communication, learn from others, learn to accept their own failures, and strengthen children's ability to endure setbacks.
Third, advice to parents.
1. First of all, Lego learning emphasizes children's initiative, sociality and situational learning, so children are the main body. What parents should do is to stimulate and guide their children's interest, guide them to grow new knowledge and experience from the original knowledge, and learn how to deal with and transform knowledge, instead of simply instilling knowledge and simply telling them a conclusion.
2. Secondly, Lego guides children "from face to depth", so when children learn things, parents should accompany their children to learn a certain depth and observe their growth, such as what the children have improved and what are the shortcomings to help them grow. This is also the growth process of parents.
Thirdly, parents should not be in the role of judging, but should be curious to understand their children's ideas and guide them to express and express their ideas. Parents who have taken Lego by themselves will know that it is really not easy. Parents who make their own moves and parents who don't make their own moves have very different opinions on their children. Therefore, it should be clear that the process is more important than the result, and the positive thinking in the construction process is the most important.