Recipe template.

_________________________________ Recipe

Ingredients:

5X 2x4 brick	4x dot	1x 1x4 plate
1x 1x4 brick	1x 2x4 plate	1x 2x8 brick
4x 1x2 brick	2x 1x2 plate	1x

Instructions:

1. Gather your ingredients together before you build.

Finish the Recipe Building Challenge

Finish the Recipe

Lesson Plan Overview:

1. Discuss what a recipe is and show examples. 
1. Ask if any of the children have used a recipe before
2. What can you use a recipe for?
3. Examples: Lego instruction manual, cookie recipe
2. Describe the building challenge
3. Break into groups of 2-3
4. Provide 20 minutes for the building challenge
5. Come back together as a group to show and tell our recipes.
6. Do the draw of 5 pieces

What is a Recipe?
A recipe is a type of instructions. It lists the items needed to create something and then detailed instructions on how to create that item. It is often used to described culinary instructions.

Building Challenge
For this building challenge the children will be given a partially defined recipe. It contains a list of ingredients (lego pieces) but does not provide the instructions or the definition of what they are creating. They are required to fill in the rest of the recipe. The building challenge rules:

1. Only the items in the list of ingredients may be used plus one item they can choose (but must draw in).
2. They need to provide some instructions for building the item. The instructions can be pictures or words. 

List of items required:

1.  A cook book with example recipes.
2.  A lego instructions book (aka a recipe).
3.  8-10 copies of the recipe to be filled in (Template blog post).
4.  Extra paper for the recipes.
5. pencils, crayons or other writing utinsils

References:

http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/K12/curriculum_units/SimpleMachinesbyDesign.pdf

Lego Pulley Lesson Plan

February's Lesson plan will be related to pulleys and simple machines. 

Lesson Plan:

1. Discuss what a pulley is.
2. Perhaps show the pulleys down stairs.
3. Ask for examples of pulleys 
4. Do the building Challenge - 20 minutes of building time
5. Have the children test out the creations

Building Challenge:

The elevator is broken and you need to deliver a piano to a 5th floor apartment in a building. Build something using a pulley to help you deliver the piano through a window into the apartment.

Items needed:

1. Structure (archway) to put on top of a table to act as the "window"
2. string to use with the pulleys
3. A "piano" to use for lifting purposes.
4. pictures of pulleys used in every day things.