The main purpose of the Master's thesis is to examine how the Lego bricks affect students' work and to design a teaching tool suitable for Geography lessons. The use of Lego bricks has a positive impact on the cognitive development, in particular on enhancing creativity and ability to follow instructions, organising and planning, problem solving and development of spatial intelligence. The Lego bricks facilitate the development of motor skills, and have an impact on social and emotional skills (concentration, patience, self-confidence, communication, group work). Due to their popularity and variety of their building blocks, the Lego bricks offer a number of opportunities for integration into Geography lessons. Constructions can be made and then used as teaching materials. Within our research, we have created some relief maps of Slovenia and the continents, a model of vegetation altitude zones and illustrations of rural and urban settlements. We used the Lego bricks to demonstrate the movement of lithospheric plates, the flow of water on karst surfaces and the extraction of polders. They were used to create bar charts and climographs. During the lessons when the Lego bricks were used, the students showed great interest, they were active, motivated and worked well in a group. In the questionnaire survey they wrote that they found the constructions suitable for learning and a good tool for better understanding of the learning content. The findings of our research show that the Lego bricks can be a versatile learning tool to enrich the educational process.
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