The Building Tomorrow Project
Expands to 2,200
A
partnership with LEGO®
Systems, Inc., LEGO®
Education, The LEGO® Foundation
and Enfield Public Schools, The
Building Tomorrow Project, entered its
second year in September as students
in all Grades K-5 are utilizing a
LEGO® product to build their way to
better understandings in English
language arts, math, science, and social
studies. Launched on September 23rd
2013in grades K, 2, and 4, the Building
Tomorrow Project is a charitable gift
from The LEGO® Foundation and
includes products, training, technology,
and support. In September 2014, all
109 classrooms in the primary and
intermediate buildings became actively
involved in building with bricks.
Grade 1 students at Nathan Hale
School conduct experiments
with their race cars.
Kindergarten students are
continuing their work with Creative
Builder ® : a brick based product
designed to teach students the basics of
building. Students have loved
exploring shapes, position in space,
and number sense using their kits in
pairs. Grade two students continue to
enthusiastically use Build to Express®.
It has engaged them in hands-on
lessons in higher-order thinking tasks
including critical thinking,
communication, and problem solving.
In the intermediate buildings the
fourth grade students using
StoryStarter® are working on
developing a deeper understanding of
story structure, character analysis,
genre, and point of view. Their
building kits, used in small groups,
help students develop the ability to
analyze literature and retell stories,
while enhancing their writing and
editing skills.
This year, grade one stude