LEGO Civics & Language Program
Description
Age 4 - 10
Civics, STEM, and language/culture learning through LEGO. Student cohorts founded cities in which they had to build everything from scratch. Through ownership (each student own a LEGO plate block and had to earn bricks in order to upgrade their houses), government/policies (e.g. government system, election, campaigning for mayor), students learned to be responsible citizens and learned everything from taxes to how decisions are made. We also added language element to the program (Chinese and Korean) to have students immerse to another culture through play and building.
This program became a hit and several NYC Manhattan schools adopted as after school or weekend program.