What is STEAM Education
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STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking.
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STEAM-based programmes take an integrated approach to learning and teaching, which requires an intentional connection between curriculum learning objectives, standards, assessments, and lesson design/implementation.
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STEAM learning applies meaningful maths, science, and technology content to solve real-world problems through hands-on learning activities and creative design.
Benefits of STEAM EDUCATION
1. Stimulate Creative Thinking
When students engage in activities that combine various components of STEAM, they experience guided request in which they should ask thoughtful questions, find answers, apply what they learn, and solve their problems creatively. For example, students learning how to make a wire sculpture can raise more questions about how it functions, evaluate distinctive wiring systems, consider the importance behind their imaginative creation, and experience the inventive procedure, going from a structure on paper to a practical and artistic object.
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2. Offers Meaningful Collaboration
Through STEAM learning, it promotes great teamwork and intellectual discussion in which students share their thoughts on different approaches to problem solving. Through these exercises, students understand their strengths and weaknesses, leverage on each other’s strengths to complete a project.
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3. Increase Critical Thinking
STEAM learning in Singapore expect students to consider problems systematically by applying the data they have learned, along engineering and technology, to find the best solutions. Cross-curricular tasks also connect with various parts of students’ brains so they are seeing the task through various focal points, concentrating on details while additionally figuring out how to step back and have a look at the master plan.
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4. Provides a Unique way to Problem-Solve
STEAM learning in Singapore allows the students to solve the problem in extraordinary ways because they are compelled to utilise different techniques to solve problems that pop up during activities. By encountering different experiments, failures, and errors, they learn how to take risks, and make sense of how to truly “think outside the box” to problem-solving.
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5. Gives Students Hands-On Learning Experience
STEAM learning allows all students to participate in hands-on, experiential learning. They are encouraged to utilise various materials and tools to find out how something works, how to construct it, and how to fix it. This allows the children to be equipped with the same set of these essential skills regardless of gender, financial status, or race.