STEM in the Curriculum

What if our implementation of STEM promoted STEM as something curious and exciting? What if we could encourage innovation?

What if we could encourage our children to not give up the dream, to never stop challenging and innovating, and to think about solutions to the big problems that they know exist around them.

STEM is not an extra.

It's an integrated approach to teaching and assessing Science, Technologies and Maths in a unit where these disciplines have meaningful connections for students. General Capabilities like Numeracy, ICT Capabilities and Critical and Creative Thinking should be evident.

Dispositions such as collaboration, innovation, creativity, curiosity, communication, flexibility will be developed alongside inquiry, problem solving, social skills and design thinking.

STEM is NOT a:

• start-to-finish set of instructions or recipe to turn out 25 identical products
• black box approach where elements click together with little or no understanding of the Maths, Science or Technologies that underpin them
• design approach without Scientific Inquiry
• product driven process