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After reading Unravelling STEM: Beyond the Acronym of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (Liston, 2018), I reflected on what STEM education looks like in my classroom. The paper mentions that STEM involves meaningful integration of real-world problem-solving experiences that encourage creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and innovation. I find STEM is part of a range of learning experiences in my classroom rather than being confined to specific lessons. Reading Liston’s paper reinforced for me the importance of moving beyond viewing STEM as four separate subjects. Effective STEM education involves creating opportunities for students to think critically, collaborate, communicate and apply their knowledge in meaningful ways. While finding time can be challenging, I think it is important to make the time as STEM learning provides valuable opportunities for inquiry-based learning and helps prepare students with many skills they might need in the future.
The question I created is: How can we reduce the number of car journeys to our school and encourage more pupils to walk or cycle?
This research question would be highly relevant to students in my school as it is focused on an issue that directly affects us currently. To encourage participation, I would begin by discussing climate change and how transport contributes to carbon emissions. Then I would ask students to investigate how they currently travel to school by carrying out surveys and collecting data. This would give them ownership of the project and help them see the connection between their actions and the wider environment. I think it would be nice to also invite members of the Green-Schools Committee to share their ideas and help with activities I would ask students to suggest and implement solutions, such as Walk on Wednesdays.The “Nose High Up in the Sky” seems really good, I’m so glad to have found it. In my opinion students would find the resource really engaging and I think its extremely important are engaged when teaching such topics. I like that the activities are very hands-on and inquiry based. I know using this resource would encourage my students to observe, predict and investigate, helping them to develop scientific thinking skills. I will definitely use this resource with my class next year. In the past when I was teaching about weather I always found it was a topic my students enjoyed so I imagine they will really enjoy and benefit from this resource.
Ellen thank you for sharing the video link based on Ireland’s Climate Action Plan 2019. I think its very important to share this with students
I think the video ‘HOME’ by Yann Arthus-Bertrand would be a great stimulus for teaching my class about the Earth and climate change. It’s a fantastic video that I had previously been aware of and it could be used with many class levels making it a great resource to be aware of. I would use the video as a starting point for a few lessons. I would show the video to my class and ask the students what they see and what questions the video makes them wonder about. I would use it as a stimulus for SSE in a lesson based on climate and climate change. I think the video will lead to an interesting discussion with my class. I would then follow it up by integrating an art lesson by asking the students to design posters in groups based on what they learned. Afterwards each group could demonstrate and explain their posters to the whole class.
I asked my class to write and present the weather in a lesson this year. It worked really well. Great idea to do this using the paxi video
Activity 3 would be an excellent way to introduce children to the topic of climate change in a meaningful way. I liked the temperature prediction tool. The tool would encourage students to think critically by analysing patterns and evidence before making predictions. After watching the video, I would place the class into small groups to discuss what they learned and share their thoughts. They could then work collaboratively to use the prediction tool and compare their predictions with those of other groups as a whole class activity. Later I would have a lesson to make weather prediction tools.