TY - CHAP
T1 - Implementation of an integrated STEM activity in pre-primary schools
AU - García Terceño, Eva M.
AU - Greca, Ileana M.
AU - Redfors, Andreas
AU - Fridberg, Marie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2020/8/15
Y1 - 2020/8/15
N2 - BotSTEM is an ERASMUS+ project. Its outputs are aimed to provide in- and pre-service teachers in Childhood and Primary Education with a didactical framework, research-based materials and best practices using integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and robot-based approaches for enhancing scientific literacy in young children. Initial results from the implementation of activities following the proposed model in preschools in Spain are presented here. Despite the possible obstacles that preschool teachers initially expressed, the preliminary analysis indicates that the proposed STEM integrated framework, including inquiry teaching and engineering design methodologies, can be used with children as young as 4 y.o. In the case of a project about magnets, the children seem to have learnt some scientific ideas, applied these ideas to design a magnetic toy and learnt about spatial orientation using robots.
AB - BotSTEM is an ERASMUS+ project. Its outputs are aimed to provide in- and pre-service teachers in Childhood and Primary Education with a didactical framework, research-based materials and best practices using integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and robot-based approaches for enhancing scientific literacy in young children. Initial results from the implementation of activities following the proposed model in preschools in Spain are presented here. Despite the possible obstacles that preschool teachers initially expressed, the preliminary analysis indicates that the proposed STEM integrated framework, including inquiry teaching and engineering design methodologies, can be used with children as young as 4 y.o. In the case of a project about magnets, the children seem to have learnt some scientific ideas, applied these ideas to design a magnetic toy and learnt about spatial orientation using robots.
KW - Design-based research
KW - Early childhood education
KW - Inquiry-based teaching
KW - Integrated STEM education
KW - Variation theory
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-57799-5_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-57799-5_4
M3 - Chapter in book
AN - SCOPUS:85090035108
SN - 9783030577988
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 30
EP - 39
BT - The 11th International Conference on European Transnational Educational (ICEUTE 2020)
A2 - Herrero, Álvaro
A2 - Urda, Daniel
A2 - Sedano, Javier
A2 - Quintián, Héctor
A2 - Corchado, Emilio
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education, ICEUTE 2020
Y2 - 16 September 2020 through 18 September 2020
ER -