The educator provided the children with scientific experiences grouped with one word STEM, an acronym for science, technology and engineering, and mathematics.
STEM makes creators, thinkers, problem solvers, doers, innovators, and inventors.
The material that I will present in this scientific experience is snow, various sizes of the bucket, whiteboards, buttons, microwave, refrigerator, small scoops.
Children learned from the STEM about some states of matter in nature( solid and liquid).
The children learned how the water turned into a solid when it was exposed to low temperatures.
The snow melts when exposed to high temperatures.
Children learned by experimentation, observing, experimenting, and making predictions, sharing discoveries, asking questions.
The children know that technology can be used to speed up work and solve problems. Technology also helps children to improve their learning. For example, the microwave stimulates children's curiosity to integrate into the scientific experience by observing the melting of snow.
Then we built the snowman to teach the children during the formation of the snowman the concepts of mathematics and also the language of mathematics such as comparison(big, bigger than, the biggest, smaller than, and counting, positional words: as(top, under, up, between, down)
STEM helps children to develop a sense of order, seriation, and balance.
Children learn to share ideas with their peers, communicate their ideas to the other side, and persevere in completing the goal despite sometimes failing to place the balls in the correct order. This skill for children is developed through engineering education.
Children learned that organizing and planning before starting any work makes work easy and straightforward.
Children learned that planning helps to solve problems.
Children also learn flexibility in dealing with the team.
The parents can ask their children open-ended questions as
What is the relationship between the melted snow and the snowball?
The second question about engineering is
What do you think would happen if we put the medium size circle down? These questions are suitable for open-ended questions that do not require an answer with "yes" or "no" only, or only one "correct" answer. Moreover, the question that starts what helps children focus on what is happening or what the child is doing allows children to observe and then communicate. Besides, it builds children's self-confidence because they can answer these questions with their practical knowledge: Further, the problem starts with what helps kids learn and predict. Prediction is an essential skill in critical thinking.
The data display template shows the result of the experience of children after they finished STEM.
Those photos had been taken with myself.
Phpetrunina14.(n.d). snowman in center of frozen city park. [photograph].
I will provide the family with a story walk that supports STEM.
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