STEAM Education in Preschool Education: We Design Our School for Our Visually Impaired Friend

Autor/inn/en	Hacioglu, Yasemin; Suiçmez, Esra
Titel	STEAM Education in Preschool Education: We Design Our School for Our Visually Impaired Friend
Quelle	In: Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 59 (2022) 2, S.55-67 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hacioglu, Yasemin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8121
DOI	10.1080/00368121.2022.2056111
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; STEM Education; Art Education; Curriculum Implementation; Educational Facilities Design; Accessibility (for Disabled); Disabilities; Authentic Learning; Instructional Effectiveness; Knowledge Level; Integrated Curriculum; Teaching Methods; Preschool Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; STEM; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Accessibility; Zugänglichkeit; Handicap; Behinderung; Unterrichtserfolg; Wissensbasis; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Integration of STEAM disciplines in preschool education is considered to be difficult for children to work as engineers and perform robotics applications. Therefore, preschool STEAM activities are needed. The study aims to convey how to implement the preschool STEAM activity named "We design our school for our visually impaired friend" with children aged 48-66 months. Children ran -engineering, technology, and artistic- design processes by scientific and mathematical inquiry. They worked for a week under the guidance of their teacher. First, they designed tactile paths for the visually impaired person in their school, tested with dramatic inquiry, and presented. Second, they coded and tested Bee-Bot to help guide and accompany their disabled friend. Then, they designed posters for awareness of the life of impaired people and evaluated them. Then they hung it on the walls of the school and explained the importance of roads for the visually impaired, tasks of Bee-Bot to other children, teachers, and parents. They evaluated each other and themselves while testing their designs and used scientific concepts -- the importance of seeing sense organs, mathematical shapes. The children had fun and learned by working cooperatively throughout the activity for the process of STEAM activity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01