iSTEM

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are fundamental to shaping the future of Australia. They provide enabling skills and knowledge that increasingly underpin many professions and trades, and the skills of a technologically based workforce. The iSTEM course utilises these knowledge pillars in their application to Skills, Technology Engineering and Mechanics.

A student who likes to learn and apply the principles of Science, Mathematics and Technology in order to engineer and problem solve, through design and experimentation, in project based learning tasks.

iStem is an Integrated Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics 100-hour school developed elective. This course will not appear on the RoSA, it will be reported on the school semester one and semester two reports using the Common Grade Scale.

iSTEM covers a number of modules in the fields of technology and engineering. The modules include

· STEM Fundamentals,

· Aerodynamics,

· Motion,

· Mechatronics,

· 3D CAD/CAM

· Surveying,

· Design for Space,

· Statistics in Action and a

· Project Based Learning Task. There are nine possible modules of which a minimum of three need to be completed in each 100 hour course.

Students will develop:

· inquiry and project based learning skills appropriate to STEM practice,

· knowledge and understanding of scientific and mechanical concepts through investigations of technology and engineering,

· knowledge and understanding of STEM principles and processes,

· skills in solving STEM based problems and meeting STEM challenges using mechanical, graphical and scientific methods,

· skills in communicating and critically evaluating,

· problem solving skills in a range of STEM contexts,

· an appreciation of the role and potential of STEM in the world in which they live,

· an understanding of the contribution of STEM disciplines to the economic well-being of nations.