A Model Suggestion For STEM Activity Design Within The Scope Of The Curriculum

Authors : Nursel Yalçin, Berker Kiliç, Çiğdem Atatay

Pages : 95-107

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Publication Date : 2016-06-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :STEM which can be used for educating students at every stages, has product and practice based activities at its basis and integrates different disciplines is a new educational approach used as an acronym for the words Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Education must focus on the humanly fields such as creativity, critical thinking, collaborating and problem solving that can not be solved via machines or information technologies. But it is not quite possible to have the individuals acquire these abilities by using classical educational understanding.  Therefore, it is crucially important developing well-structured STEM activities and the individual’s making mistakes by getting into incorrect directions during the education process, achieving the solutions by using trial-error method and via his/her own cognitive and operational processes.  In the STEM field, attempts by partially public and by partially private sector are encountered in our country. But unfortunately, it can not be possible to correspond the STEM activities that are prepared for considering the curriculum of different countries with the curriculum applied in our country exactly. Putting forward the processes that are structured considering the curriculum and inside the process the students’ using their humanly abilities in developing STEM activities are such as to form the basis of the studies that are made in the field of STEM in our country.  In this study, it is tried to design a well-structured STEM activity by examining the curriculum of Maths, Science Technologies, Information Technologies and Software courses and a sample STEM activity designing process has been developed.
Keywords : STEM, curriculum, activity