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A French immersion teacher in Opelousas gave her fourth-graders an Easter egg hunt with a twist to make math practice a little more festive. Heba Elseginy, French immersion teacher at Park Vista Elementary School, scattered colorful plastic eggs for her fourth-graders to find in the schoolyard this month, but they didn't find candy when they opened them. "Inside the eggs were math problems from what we have been learning — multiplication, division, fractions, rounding up and down, finding area," Elseginy said. Students worked out the problems on a small whiteboard they were carrying befor...

Area9 Lyceum Receives Strategic Investment from LEGO Ventures News provided by Share this article Share this article CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Area9 Lyceum, a developer of world-class adaptive learning platforms, announced today they have received a strategic investment from LEGO Ventures, the LEGO® Brand's venture capital arm. Jamie Beaumont, managing director, LEGO Ventures comments: "We are delighted to be investing in Area9 Lyceum and their commitment to pushing the boundaries in how learners develop beyond knowledge and towards skills, character and meta-lear...

March 22, 2021 You are here: Home / World Economic Forum / Learning through play represents the best long-term value for helping kids, regardless of background Learning through play represents the best long-term value for helping kids, regardless of background (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Chair, Learning through Play, The LEGO Foundation & Amy Jo Dowd, Head of Evidence, The LEGO Foundation The LEGO Foundation has reviewed evidence of the power of learning throu...

STEM expert from Texas A&M at Qatar conducts professional development workshop for teachers  02 Mar 2021 - 7:05 The Peninsula Doha: Texas A&M University at Qatar STEM expert Dr. Mohamed Gharib conducted LEGO Education Academy Teacher Professional Development Workshops for teachers at the Michael E. DeBakey High School and the Qatar Science and Technology Secondary School for Boys. The workshop, LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3: Learning Through Play at School, is a hands-on, cross-curricular STEM solution that combines LEGO Technic elements, classroom-friendly software, and standards-aligned ...

When it comes to skills your pre-school child should have by age five, it's not all about academic achievements.