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

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 95 - 107, 01.06.2016

Nursel Yalçın , Berker Kılıç Çiğdem Atatay

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

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