

This side of the card aligns with the compartments of the tray and indicates the tray location and quantity for each part type.

Understanding the Parts Key Cardįigure 1 shows the front of the prepared parts key card. As with the previous inventory system, the new system involves the use of a customizable parts key card and a sectioned translucent parts tray. Accordingly, we present here an updated version of the previously published inventory system (Ewers & Dawes, 2013) to facilitate parts management for the LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Core Set.

The new version, LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Core Set, Part #45300, comprises updated electronics and software and includes some new parts. In 2016 LEGO released an updated version of its popular WeDo Robotics system. An equipment management plan is critical for enabling program leaders and participants to focus on educationally meaningful activities, and a system for organizing parts is a key aspect of such a plan. If kits are incomplete, users find completing activities more difficult, and more time is spent looking for parts than attending to lesson learning objectives. However, one problem associated with the use of LEGO systems, especially in programs in which multiple kits are used, is that maintaining the kits can be taxing. Electronic and programmable LEGO systems have been a boon to educational robotics programs conducted in 4-H, schools, and other youth programs (Barker & Ansorge, 2006 Ewers, 2010 Habib, 2012a, 2012b).
