Lego Mindstorm

Lego Mindstorm would be an amazing incorporation to math and science lessons. You could make a connection to a math lesson based on geometry and shapes and illustrate the different shapes in Lego Mindstorm. We could then show students how you can place the shapes together to make a larger, more complex shape. Also, a lot of these Lego pieces are a fraction of a larger piece, so we could use them as manipulates to demonstrate fractions (a piece of a whole). More likely than not, students would be more motivated and engaged in the learning process because it is more of a hands-on experience. This also helps students store this information into their long-term memory and they are more prone to have better recall of the information on any assessment because they made a connection with the learning. Lego Mindstorm could also be a way to assess a students ability to follow multi-step directions, problem, solve, and assess different shapes. Based on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, you could also use this program to assess a students knowledge on the subject matter instead of the typical paper-based testing. Overall, this makes the learning more fun and interactive and students will be more willing to tackle these "harder subjects".