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Are you looking for an ideal method to integrate hands-on STEAM approaches into your children’s education? Our vision at Big Bang Academy is to make STEAM resources available to everyone, so we can help you create and deliver quality courses.
Whether it is for an outside classroom activity or to use during your lessons, these STEAM teaching resources will surely help young learners steadily expand their knowledge base, allowing them to flourish in problem-solving as well as hone their creative abilities.
In order to support learners with their investigation, discussion, and problem-solving, STEAM Education integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.
According to education experts, STEAM education involves more than just learning practical skills. It also empowers curious learners to seek creative solutions, developing the skills needed for their future careers.
STEM is obviously better known to all teachers compared to STEAM, where the clear difference in STEAM is the greater involvement of imagination and creativity, leading to more room for early innovation.
No matter what subject or area you teach, there is a process for creating a STEAM-Centred classroom. By following these multiple core steps, you can facilitate the actual learning process in your STEAM classroom.
It is crucial to have a clear focus on how your chosen problem to solve relates to STEAM content areas.
In this step, you will find the components contributing to the problem. When observing a correlation within the problem or the root of the problem, you will begin to find some important information. For example, background knowledge, skills, or processes that students already have to solve the question.
Active research and thoughtful teaching are the foundations of discovery. Students investigate existing solutions and find out what does not work during the process. As a teacher, you may utilise this stage to assess any skills the students may lack and complement further teaching with this information.
The fun begins here! Students can start to develop their own solutions to the problem after they have delved deeply into it and have analysed current solutions. This is where they use the knowledge, procedures, and skills they learned during the discovery stage.
Pupils then have to present the solution they came up with, allowing them to express their own unique viewpoint. On top of that, it’s important that the work is presented for review, as it encourages feedback and teaches kids how to receive and offer input.
Finally, the loop is closed at this step. Students are given the chance to evaluate their own processes and skills. Students are encouraged to revise their work as necessary and come up with a better answer.
PhET Interactive Simulations is a non-profit open educational resource initiative where fun, free, interactive, researched-based science and mathematics simulations are provided. These simulations are available and can be run online or downloaded to a computer, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers!
Teachers are able to use these simulations as a demonstration to enforce student understanding in an effective way. The simulations can replace the role of some experimental equipment. The simulations are highly interactive where students can change settings to get immediate feedback of that effect.
There are simulations in physics, chemistry, earth science, biology, and maths. Their goal is to provide an open exploratory environment where people can engage with science like a scientist.
The Scholastic Store Online sells to everybody, where it offers the greatest range of books, toys, games, and software, in addition to arts and crafts kits for enjoyable learning. It also has The Teacher Store, which is only available for professional educators. This offers exceptional discounts and sales on books, software, curriculum packages, and teaching supplies.
PBS LearningMedia is a cutting edge digital library collection that is free and gives PreK to Y12 educators a flexible approach to including media into daily lessons. It features videos, audio, and interactives that engage teachers and students at all levels. It has over 20,000 materials, with more being uploaded every week.
PBS LearningMedia also offers adaptive lesson plans to cater to your style of teaching, supplementing in class teaching for students. Students can also review these at home if they are struggling.
Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, English Language Arts, Engineering & Technology, Health & Physical Education, Preschool, Professional Development, the Arts, and World Languages are subjects available on the website.
Illuminations strives to be of service to everyone by expanding access to high-quality, standards-based materials for mathematics teaching and learning, including engaging tools for students and helpful resources for teachers.
The resources include 700+ lesson plans with over 50 activities such as viral manipulatives, applets, and games. There is also a function where teachers can send in suggestions for the resources and original puzzles for other teachers.
National Geographic is where education converges with exploration. By providing young people and the educators who reach them with the tools, materials, and assistance they require to stoke their curiosity and continue to be explorers in the future. There are multiple ways to learn due to the available immersive activities, engaging lesson plans, maps, and other cost-free tools on the platform.
Children are able to read and learn with the digital Explorer Magazine, featuring read-aloud text, games, and pop-up vocabulary, all with six versions developed for students at all levels. There are also videos and interactives, and maps and infographics, where all resources are aimed at engaging learners’ minds in social studies, science, geography, and more.
NASA STEM Engagement is a platform that has resources for educators of all levels to assist in educating students about physics and space.
It has tool kits on different interesting STEM topics, such as the Sun, Moon, and telescopes, where there are videos, articles, and lesson plans for various different ages.
The Exploratorium platform has many educational tools, such as Science Snacks, which are interactive, teacher-approved activities that bring investigations of natural phenomena into the home and classroom. Each one opens with a picture or a video, an overview, and a supply list, which consists of low-cost and widely accessible items. Other parts include how to put the activity together and how to use it while providing a scientific explanation of what is happening.
There are videos, experiments, and instructions with informative descriptions for a wide range of STEM subjects.
Georgia Tech has projects and initiatives that aim to connect and introduce parents and educators to STEAM learning opportunities and resources for their children at home, for example, "STEAM from a Distance" is a campus and community collaboration.
There is also a header where there is an index of numerous engaging STEM websites, where there is endless information.
The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM is the largest online professional development for educators employing arts-integrated approaches.
500+ art integrated lessons, accredited training, teacher created resources such as forms, posters, and tools to use in any type of classroom.
Teaching key scientific terms and basic scientific principles, Big Bang STEAM was developed by Cambridge University educators and aligned with the Hong Kong primary school curriculum. Astrology, geography, physics, biology, chemistry, and other helpful life sciences will be taught to the kids while they work independently.
The monthly kit contains a material box package with 24 scientific projects and 2 unique experiments each month, giving the impression that they are opening a brand-new gift every month! Science is made interactive and exciting by the over 150 science topics, 500 science vocabulary, and 1,000 bite-sized instructional films and activities.
Our goal is for students to discover the joy of science and effectively integrate their knowledge with hands-on experiments and workbook activities to fully understand difficult scientific concepts.To support this, data from 2020–22 shows that Big Bang STEAM improves grades in science-related areas by 40%. As teachers only need to interact with students by asking leading questions or encouraging discussions, this package gives kids the freedom to pick what they are interested in and when they want to study it.
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