STEM is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
As these subjects are closely related they are often taught together.
STEM approach to teaching
The STEM approach to teaching and learning gives students the opportunity to work on challenging problems and projects. Hands-on practical activities help learners:
- experiment
- use new technologies
- test ideas
- make and create innovative solutions to real, complex problems through the Engineering Design Process .
Relationships with local industries and communities are also important to both teacher and student learning.
What STEM students learn
In Primary we learn:
- designing and building prototypes like windmills, solar cars and water sampling technologies
- designing solutions to problems
- investigating systms
- coding and robotics
- agri-science and agricultural engineering
- robotics
- developing technical and engineering skills to troubleshoot the source of a problem, repair a machine or debug an operating system.
Department for Education STEM Strategy
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Primary STEM News
R/1 STEM | Transparent & Opaque Materials
The R/1 students are learning about transparent, translucent and opaque materials. Last week they made their own opaque shadow puppets...
2/3 STEM | Breadboarding
The 2/3 Class were introduced to ‘breadboarding’ this week to make the assembly of their LED circuits simpler. The breadboard …...
R-1 STEM | Transparency Toys
The JP STEM students are investigating transparent, translucent and opaque materials. This week we made Halloween and underwater scenes by …...
2/3 STEM | BeeBot Treasure Hunts
Our Year 2/3 students are now creating their own Beebot programs and recording the steps using flashcards. They are looking …...
2/3 STEM | BeeBot Programming
How good are Eva and Charlotte – they programmed their BeeBot to deliver toy cars to every one of the …...
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