What is STEM?
Capri, Italy
In Italy, “What is STEM?” LTT activity will be held for 7 days (2 days for travel, 5 days for activity) for students. In this activity, students are expected to understand STEM through Collaborative Learning (JIGSAW TECHNIQUE) method. ‘What is STEM’ activity that removes STEM from a theoretical concept and determines the data that students will acquire by questioning, researching, imagining, thinking in a collaborative way. The activities for each day.
Day 1 : Students will meet with each other. Then 30 students from six different countries will be divided into 5 groups. At least one student from each country will be in the groups. Then the group members will elect a group president and name their group.
Day 2: Designing aspect will be given to the students together with different dimensions of STEM.These dimensions are ; 1-Science aspect 2-Engineering aspect 3-Math aspect 4-Technology aspect 5-Design aspect Then the teachers will explain to the students how they will learn and how they will be evaluated in this process.Students will work on a different aspect of STEM after they leave their group.
Day 3:Teachers will create the new groups called “expert groups” by bringing the students who work on the same STEM aspect in different groups together.When the students in these expert groups return to their own groups, they will prepare and study the topics they will teach to their group friends with the expert group members. In this process, the teacher directs and encourages students to express their ideas, to share their thoughts and to help other friends. At the end of this process, the students in the expert groups will complete the studies on the aspect of the STEM given.
Day 4: At the stage of report preparation and remodeling, the students in the expert groups will return to their original groups and try to teach the STEM aspect they worked on in their expert groups to the other friends.In this process , by discussing in depth with their friends in the original group, they will teach and learn all aspects of STEM deeply. All of the group members in the original groups will have completed their studies by preparing a report after teaching the aspects of STEM to each other.
Day 5:In the completion and evaluation stage, teacher will integrate the learning of the students by making one of the original groups demonstrate what they’ve learned with a presentation. In the evaluation process of the students, the study will be completed by using the techniques used in cooperative learning method.