Challenge and season information - FIRST® LEGO® League Discover
This season’s theme is SUBMERGED℠
Children will explore beneath the ocean surface and learn how this complex ecosystem is studied to support a healthy future for the plants and animals that live there.
Welcome to SUBMERGED℠
During the SUBMERGED℠ Season, FIRST LEGO League teams will use creative thinking and LEGO® technology to explore the layers of the ocean and bring their learnings and ideas to the surface as they “sea” into the future.
Children will work together in teams of four to explore the theme and use DUPLO pieces from the SUBMERGED℠ Discover sets and LEGO® Education STEAM Park.
In FIRST® LEGO® League Discover, children are given meaningful problems to solve. They work together to wonder and question, build and tinker, listen and share.
By the end of their experience, children emerge more confident and better equipped to face future challenges.
Explore
In the SUBMERGED℠ challenge, launching August 6, 2024, FIRST® LEGO® League teams will use creative thinking and LEGO® technology to explore the layers of the ocean and bring their learnings and ideas to the surface as they “sea” into the future.
Encourage your team to explore what they already know about our oceans, and wonder what they have yet to DISCOVER.
Build and create
Children will have the opportunity to dive into the unexplored oceans using DUPLO pieces from STEAM Park by LEGO Education and the Discover set. Children should be encouraged to work with their teammates, listen to each other, take turns, and share ideas and pieces.
Have each team build the submarine from the Discover set, using the building cards. They can place the submarine on the mat to start their journey. In the following sessions, the children will explore different ocean depths and the creatures that live there.
Share
The children will record their ideas and designs in their Engineering Notebooks.
They will share their builds and what they learned with others.
Most importantly they will have fun!
Playful learning in action
FIRST® LEGO® League Discover focuses on playful learning in action.
Research shows when children are engaged in playful STEM experiences, they ignite their natural curiosity, grow their knowledge, and develop key habits of learning.
Engineering design process
Throughout every session, children will work through the engineering design process, just like real engineers do!
They will be exploring the theme and ideas, creating solutions, testing them, iterating and changing them, and then sharing what they’ve learned with others.
Quick routes guide
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