Stem education is a teaching approach that integrates science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. STEM education is an engaging way to help students learn and collaborate with hands-on projects.
STEM education is important because we use science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in our daily life. The STEM education approach is to maintain the focus on standards-based teaching while enriching and extending the learning of students through PBL projects .
STEM education aims to prepare students with skills, such as adaptability, complex communication, social skills, non-routine problem solving, self-management, and systems thinking in order to ensure their competitiveness in this era of globalization, especially in the science and technology fields. STEM enables students to be equipped with technical knowledge and skills, turn to STEM professions and become STEM literate individuals to help solve real-world problems. The primary purpose of STEM education is to prepare students to take what they learn in school and apply it to their future jobs in the real world. With STEM education, students acquire critical thinking skills and thus become creative problem solvers.
STEMSOS is a rigorous, interdisciplinary, standards-focused, and engaging STEM teaching approach that is teacher-facilitated, student-centered and directed through sets of project- and inquiry-based (P&IBL) projects. STEMSOS PBL approach is to maintain the focus on standards-based teaching while enriching and extending the learning of students through PBL projects. The goal is to promote not only collaborative skills and student ownership of learning but also to promote student success in state and national standards.
STEMSOS PBL Showcase is designed to promote and share exemplary student work in PBL projects that can serve as valuable learning and teaching tools for students, parents, teachers, and other educators.