Lego Dacta
Introduction
Lego DACTA was a Lego product line for education, but also (from 1989 to ???? the name of the Lego Education divison.
“In comparative research studies LEGO Dacta, the LEGO Company's educational division, draws upon extensive scientific research into fields such as cognition, psychology, evolutionary psychology, and epistemology. Adding the child's universe, LEGO Dacta asks the basic question: How can we encourage children to life-long learning?” (Lego pressrelease, 2000, retrieved 15:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC))
DACTA bricks are now sold as "Lego education bricks" and are a bit difficult to find, i.e. one can't find these in toy stores, only through special resellers that sell to schools. In many countries, DACTA sets are probably not available. Most "educational" sets are just standard sets in bigger quantities, but there is exist some special pieces like "mosaic" bricks.
See also: Doblo factory, a openscad-based script to generate DUPLO-compatible play worlds and bricks.
Examples
DUPLO Numbers & Mosacis
Links
Inventories
- DACTA Inventory by [1] Lego/Duplo inventory by Dan Boger and Jennifer Finch and others. Absolutely must consult if you need to know if a given kind of part exists.
- Example:
Commercial resellers
- Mikrov Danish reseller for Skandinavia. (in Danish)
- LEGO at schooldoodle.com. Sell some base stuff, e.g. plates
- RM May sell some in the UK
- Moore Educational (US)