Alma Grace Ortaleza

• Special Science Teacher

• Grade 6 Special Science Adviser

• Grade 5 English Special Science Teacher

STEMTube aims to provide supplementary learning materials on Math primarily for the fifth and sixth graders of Mayapyap Elementary School in the form of video lectures that align with the students’ current curriculum. The video lectures will serve to help the students in their 3rd and 4th quarter lessons. These video lectures will be available in YouTube for the accessibility of the general public.

As it can provide basic training for any career in our computer-reliant world, the delivery of quality education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is clearly indispensable for students in the present age.  In the Philippines, however, the lack of structured and effective education, especially in the fields of STEM, has long been a serious issue. In the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, for example, the Philippines scored 297 and 249 out of 800 in the fourth grade math and science assessments, ranking last in both among the 58 surveyed countries (Mullis et al., 2019). Providing Filipino children with a more effective STEM education is thus crucial in addressing this systemic issue.

Through supplemental, parallel education, students are able to learn in a way that wouldn’t be possible in the fixed curriculum set by the school. Video demonstrations, live experiments, and educational games are examples of modes of instruction that accomplish this. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, many of these methods have become impractical or even impossible; only the use of video lectures remains to be feasible despite the online set-up. 

Thus, the project may create national implications and benefits by setting a precedent for the hypothesized advantages of video lectures as a supplementary material for higher quality education. In particular, the project aims to serve as an educational model for filling in the gap in higher-level STEM education present across many schools in the Philippines. 

The major activities that took place in the implementation of the project included the compilation of the school’s lessons on particular subjects and the creation of videos teaching said subjects. The school was contacted for the procurement of their subject syllabuses, specifically for Mathematics and Science. These syllabuses were used as an outline for the lessons to be taught in the 3rd and 4th quarters. The lessons in a specific quarter were then researched and studied, with the findings collated to create an appropriate lesson plan. This served as a guide for the video creation. Once the videos was created and finalized, they were then uploaded to a YouTube channel. This will allow the students to be able to watch the videos at any time.

Although the video tutorials were made accessible to the general public through a YouTube channel, they are primarily intended for the consumption of the grade five and six students of Mayapyap Elementary School. As such, the language, style, and manner of presentation of the videos were chosen to accommodate our target audience. Additionally, sustainability measures in the form of lecture outlines were produced by the group so that the videos' effectiveness is maximized and their usability maintained. These outlines were exclusively handed out to the grade five and six teachers of the elementary school.

Feedback regarding the effectiveness of the video tutorials as learning materials were collected afterwards. The answers were collated and used to improve upon the quality of the project and alleviate any shortcomings.

STEM-Tube was able to publish and produce several videos on two modules from Mayapyap Elementary School. You may view the video on our channel below.