1, interdisciplinary integration;
Interdisciplinary is the most important core feature of STEM education. It combines science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It means that the focus of education is not only on a specific subject, but also on the boundaries between disciplines. On the contrary, we should make use of the relationship between these five disciplines and improve our ability to solve practical problems from a global perspective.
2. interesting;
STEM education curriculum will integrate the elements that children are interested in, so that children can integrate into the curriculum more quickly. Interest is the best teacher for children. Technology, animation, and even the game itself will stimulate interest, stimulate children's interest in exploration, so that children are no longer passively listening to the teacher's explanation when solving problems, but eager to explore.
3. experience;
The advanced nature of STEM education lies in the process of making children actively practice incomprehensible knowledge, inspiring thinking and finally truly transforming it into their own abilities. Any knowledge can only be truly mastered through real practice. In the process of participation and experience, every child can not only gain the knowledge of results, but also learn to think in many directions, understand that there is not only one answer to every question, and finally cultivate logical thinking. This way of acquiring knowledge through participation and experience will have a far-reaching impact on future work and life.
4. Situational;
The characteristic of STEM education is that children are not limited to the knowledge in books, but put problems in situations closely related to real life, making the abstraction concrete, and emphasizing that knowledge is the product of learners' interactive construction through learning environment, not from external indoctrination.
Restore knowledge to rich life, combine interesting and challenging problems in life, and complete teaching by solving students' problems. When knowledge is embedded in situational application, in the process of solving problems, not only knowledge can be obtained, but also sociality, situational and the ability to transfer and apply knowledge can be obtained.
5. collaboration;
The characteristic of STEM education is to cultivate children's various abilities. In the process of learning, each child's thinking collides, and finally the effect of 1+ 1 is greater than 2. In society, everyone is inseparable from cooperation and mutual assistance with others. The task of STEM education is completed in groups, and teams help each other. In this process, children will also learn how to communicate with others and finally gain valuable cooperation ability.