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Lego Education (formerly known as Lego Dacta and stylized as LEGO education) is a Lego theme designed specifically for schools that concentrates sets that can be used by education institutions and includes sets that can focus on Duplo and Technic themes and contain larger amounts of blocks. [2] The theme was first introduced in 1999. [3]
[3]: 17 Christiansen was considering two names himself, "Legio" (with the implication of a "Legion of toys") and "Lego," a self-made contraction from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well." Later the Lego Group discovered that "Lego" could be loosely interpreted as "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin. [7] Christiansen selected ...
LEGO Education Ambassadors are early learning to middle school teachers who use LEGO Education products as teaching tools and share best practices with each other. It is a volunteer group and ...
Lego Games launched in 2009, was a series of Lego-themed board games designed by Cephas Howard and Reiner Knizia [118] [119] in which the players usually build the playing board out of Lego bricks and then play with Lego-style players. Examples of the games include "Minotaurus", in which players roll dice to move characters within a brick-build ...
Minibrix were construction kits manufactured from 1935 to 1976 in the UK.Developed in 1935, they enabled children to build their own miniature houses. Like the later and more famous construction toy, Lego, Minibrix consisted primarily of interlocking bricks with moulded studs on the surface, but being invented before the availability of modern plastics they were made of hard rubber which had ...
In Ian Chow-Miller’s classroom at Mason Middle School, students learn to code robots with bricks many of them have seen before. In Ian Chow-Miller’s classroom at Mason Middle School, students ...
A Lego clone is a line or brand of children's construction blocks which is mechanically compatible with Lego brand blocks, but is produced by another manufacturer. The blocks were originally patented by The Lego Group in 1961 as "toy building bricks", [1] and the company has since remained dominant in this market. [2]
That has put them, and not the bricks, at the center of the play ecosystem. "The mini-figures are the heroes, and let those playing with them be the hero," said Joe Evangelista, a writer at Lego ...