| Course Number: | EDX 5710 S22 |
| Instructor: | Lee Arrington, M.Ed. |
| Location: | Online |
| Dates and Times: | Oct 02 - Dec 11, 2025. Session 1: 10/2/25 (Week 1) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST; Session 2: 10/16/25 (Week 3) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST; Session 3: 10/30/25 (Week 5) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST; Session 4: 11/13/25 (Week 7) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST; Session 5: 12/4/25 (Week 9) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST. Final Project Due by Thursday, 12/18/25 |
| Credits: | 3 Graduate Credits |
| Tuition: | $1,680 includes Lego Prime Spike Kit. Registration for this course closes on September 18, 2025 to ensure on-time technology delivery. |
Designed to accommodate educators, this 10-week course meets biweekly for a total of 5 Zoom meetings to help teachers gain experience using Lego Robotics. This course will include learning to code in Block while helping educators create actionable lesson plans for their students. A Free Lego Spike Prime Robotics Kit is included in the course and will be mailed to teachers before their first class. Educators will be supported in this emergent field of engineering education with readings and videos that will provide background and context to engineering education using online tutorials, supplemental resources, and explicit connections to the NGSS Standards as well as the Science and Engineering Practices. This course will help teachers connect and engage students with hands on learning and provide them with equitable access to technology that they may not have outside of school.
Audience: All Educators with a Bachelor's Degree.
Overarching course goals include an introduction to engineering education with a focus on Lego robotics to help educators feel confident using the Lego Spike Prime kit with their students. This is a Lab based, hands-on course that provides educators with the opportunity to tinker, program, and create actionable lesson plans.
Course Objectives: Course objectives include:
Week 1 – Zoom: Thursday, October 2, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Due Date – October 9, 2025
Week 2 – Offline: Thursday, October 9, 2025 – asynchronous
Due Date – October 16, 2025
Week 3 – Zoom: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Due Date – October 23, 2025
Week 4 – Offline: Thursday, October 23, 2025 – asynchronous
Due Date – October 30, 2025
Week 5 – Zoom: Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Due Date – November 6, 2025
Week 6 – Offline: Thursday, November 6, 2025 – asynchronous
Due Date – November 13, 2025
Week 7 – Zoom: Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Due Date – November 20, 2025
Week 8 – Offline: Thursday, November 20, 2025 – asynchronous
Due Date – December 4, 2025
Week 9 – Zoom: Thursday, December 4, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Due Date – December 11, 2025
Week 10 – Offline: Thursday, December 11, 2025 – asynchronous
Due Date – December 18, 2025
Required Readings will be provided.
Whitworth, Brooke & Wheeler, Lindsay. (2017). Is It Engineering or Not?. The Science Teacher. 084. 25. 10.2505/4/tst17_084_05_25.
Quan, Gina & Gupta, Ayush. (2015). Tensions in the Productivity of Design Task Tinkering - Fundamental. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 122.
Committee on a Framework for P-12. (2020). Framework for P-12 Engineering Learning. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education.
Heffernan, J., & Sullivan, F. (2021). Teaching K-6 Elementary Engineering with Robotics. International Journal of Engineering Education, 37(6), 1655-1673
Aaron Mauer (2022). Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime: Seven creative STEM robotic designs to challenge your mind. Birmingham, UK. Packt Publishing.