The Coach

1. Prepare

• Read through the student material in the LEGO^® Education SPIKE^™ App.
• Plan accordingly, this project is designed to be run over multiple sessions.

Part A

2. Engage (10 Min.)

• Use the ideas in the Ignite a Discussion section below to engage your students in a discussion related to this lesson.
• Explain the lesson.

3. Explore (35-55 Min.)

• Have your students work in pairs to brainstorm about something they'd like to become an expert at.
• Ask them to think about things they could invent to help them.
• Make sure they incorporate the use of data in their idea.
• Give them some time to make prototypes with the bricks.

4. Explain (10 Min.)

• Ask your students to build and program their training device.
• Have them put together a demo of their training program.
• Remind them to describe their trainer and their goals.

Part B

5. Elaborate (60 Min.)

• Facilitate a sharing session where everybody gets to present what their training program and what their trainer is good at (or not so good at).

6. Evaluate

• Give feedback on each student's performance.
• You can use the assessment rubrics provided to simplify the process.

Start a discussion about how to become an expert at something. Ask relevant questions, like:

• What's something you'd like to become an expert at?
• How do people use apps to master new skills?
• How data is used in training apps to track a person's progress?

Open-Ended Solutions
This project is designed so that every student or team can have a unique solution.

Example Solution
Here's an idea you can use to inspire your students' design process.

Main Program

Simplify this lesson by:

• Having the teams work on a specific topic (e.g., training for a marathon), this will allow teams to share ideas and help each other
• Providing specific programs you'd like them to use in their projects

Take this lesson to the next level by:

• Asking the teams to develop a real training program for a real person

  ▷ Have them conduct interviews with the person to identify their needs, then verify whether they've developed an appropriate solution

Teacher Observation Checklist
Create a scale that matches your needs, for example:

1. Partially accomplished
2. Fully accomplished
3. Overachieved

Use the following success criteria to evaluate your students' progress:

• Students can identify the key elements of a problem.
• Students are autonomous in developing a creative and working solution.
• Students can clearly communicate their ideas.

Self-Assessment
Have each student choose the brick that they feel best represents their performance.

• Blue: I've successfully created a training program for my favorite activity.
• Yellow: I've successfully created a training program that uses creative ways to solve the problem
• Violet: I've successfully created a training program that uses creative ways to solve the problem and I've presented my ideas clearly.

Peer-Assessment
Encourage your students to provide feedback to others by:

• Having one student score the performance of another using the colored brick scale above.
• Asking them to present constructive feedback to each other so that they can improve their group's performance during the next lesson.

To incorporate language arts skills development:

• Ask your students to use text, images, sketches, etc. to record their design process, creating an Inventor Notebook to document their work.
• Have them create a website presenting their training program.

Students who enjoyed this lesson might be interested in exploring these career pathways:

• Health Science (Medical & Health Careers)
• Information Technology (Computer Programming)
• Information Technology (Game Programming)
• Information Technology (IT Applications)
• Education And Training (Teaching)