Legos and Engineers

What We Offer

At Beehive LEGO® Academy, children do more than build—they design, experiment, problem-solve, and create. Through hands-on LEGO® challenges and projects, students develop engineering and math concepts while strengthening executive functioning, visual-spatial reasoning, fine-motor skills, language, teamwork, creativity, and perseverance. Children are grouped by developmental and skill level, progressing from early building and following directions to advanced engineering, design, and collaborative problem-solving. At Beehive, LEGO® is the teaching tool—the skills children develop are the goal.

  • 🐝 Level 1 — Little Builders

    Preschool / Pre-K | Ages approximately 3–5

    I would make this much more developmental than a traditional LEGO class. DUPLO and larger LEGO pieces could be used initially.

    Children could work on fine-motor strength, visual-spatial skills, imitation, matching, sorting, counting, colors, shapes, following directions, requesting, sharing and cooperative play.

    Examples: “Build a tower with five blocks,” “Copy my structure,” “Make an AB color pattern,” or build a house together.

  • 🐝 Level 2 — Junior Builders

    Kindergarten–Grade 1 | Ages approximately 5–7

    Now LEGO becomes a tool for early STEM + academic learning.

    Children begin following multi-step building directions and completing challenges such as:

    Can you build a bridge that holds 10 blocks?

    They work on planning, sequencing, measurement, counting, comparing, beginning engineering concepts, language, explaining their work and cooperating with another child.

  • 🐝 Level 2 — Junior Builders

    Kindergarten–Grade 1 | Ages approximately 5–7

    Now LEGO becomes a tool for early STEM + academic learning.

    Children begin following multi-step building directions and completing challenges such as:

    Can you build a bridge that holds 10 blocks?

    They work on planning, sequencing, measurement, counting, comparing, beginning engineering concepts, language, explaining their work and cooperating with another child.

  • 🐝 Level 3 — LEGO Engineers

    Grades 2–4 | Ages approximately 7–10

    This is where I would make the program much more challenge-based rather than simply having children assemble LEGO kits.

    For example:

    Today's Challenge: Build the Tallest Free-Standing Tower

    Children would plan → build → test → identify the problem → modify → test again → explain what they learned.

    You can incorporate simple machines, bridges, towers, vehicles, ramps, gears, architecture and engineering challenges.