THE IDEAS OF EDUCATIONAL STEM-STEAM-PROJECTS

Abstract

The modern requirements for reforming all sectors of Ukrainian education include, among other things, the active use of STEM-STEAM technologies. On the one hand, this approach provides a lasting interest of students in the conscious choice of future profession STEM-profile. On the other hand, the use of innovative educational technologies motivates teachers themselves to acquire new knowledge and skills. It is impossible to be an expert in all subjects of the school program at the same time. This is not the case when one teacher is forced to teach several unrelated subjects. But even the narrow specialization of the teacher can be an obstacle in finding interesting topics for student learning projects. A geography teacher cannot always come up with a project topic that combines philological subjects, exact sciences and computer science. Therefore, we offer some ideas for the implementation of STEM and STEAM projects that can inspire teachers to search for new topics in classroom, extracurricular and extracurricular activities. An important feature of the proposed ideas of STEM and STEAM projects is that their implementation does not require the presence in the school of a robotic complex or set of LEGO. According to the author, to narrow STEM-technologies to robotics is extremely wrong. STEM-technologies in education are, firstly, the integration of courses, topics and subjects, and, secondly, the project activities of students. And the project should include all obligatory stages: the formulation of the task, drawing up a work plan, the work according to the plan, checking the result of work in accordance with the formulated task, the presentation of the obtained results. The proposed ideas were embodied in different years in the circle of astronomy and information technology of the city station of young technicians of the Dnieper in the form of competitions, open classes, presentations within the school scientific society and more. In order not to impose a specific form of implementation of the proposed topics, the author presents them in plain text, rather than in the form of a synopsis.