“LEGO® Education solutions are really instrumental for engaging students and making them college- and career-ready, which is our ultimate goal.” - FREDERICK TUDDA, Headmaster, P.S. Not only does it inspire and foster kids’ imaginations, it can also be used as a valuable teaching tool, as the company’s new WeDo 2.0 robotics and coding kits demonstrate.” – GIZMODO “There’s a reason LEGO is the most popular toy on earth. “WeDo 2.0 offers projects that let students discover the surface of Mars with a model rover, or explore the Amazon rainforest through frog metamorphosis.” - JEFFREY MARLOW, Geobiologist at Harvard University and founder of The Mars Academy Education and Development Program This unique combination of building with LEGO® bricks, and then using an easy-to-use classroom app to make WeDo 2.0 come to life through engaging lesson plans for science, technology, engineering and maths classes, provides you with everything you need to teach programming in your classroom. Using LEGO® bricks, easy-to-use software and engaging STEM projects, teachers have all they need to teach their students simple programming skills. Chromebook support will come in the second half of 2016.WeDo 2.0 makes coding a reality for primary students. The WeDo 2.0 kits are now available in the US and UK for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, PCs and Macs. The STEM lessons are extra, but Lego Education will apparently offer a site-wide license. Like the consumer products, the educational kits are not cheap, running around $2,000 per classroom. For instance, kids get lessons about recycling by designing a truck, and even learn about biology and pollination, though we're not sure how they pull that off with Lego bricks.

According to Techcrunch, Lego has has developed a curriculum with over 40 hours of science lessons normally taught in fourth grade. On top of robotics, the next-gen WeDo Kit also teaches kids STEM basics via various science projects. The whole thing is driven by a tablet-based drag-and-drop interface that helps kids code basic robotics apps.

The new kit also replaces the old USB cables with a Bluetooth LE hub that connects to the motors and tilt sensors.

As before, it's designed to teach kids the basics of robotics, thanks to the Mindstorm-like sets. Lego Education has revealed the WeDo 2.0 robotics kit aimed at elementary school students, over eight years after launching the original WeDo. You may not have been able to play with Lego in school, but your kids can.

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