Discovery-Based STEAM Learning Plan
Write a plan for a STEAM experience/activity for your Big Idea/Topic. You will incorporate some (not all) of the STEAM components into your plan. The completed STEAM learning plan will become a part of the Integrated portfolio for this class.
Please choose the STEAM components that you would like to use with your activity
☐ Plan 1 Mathematics, Science, and Art.
☐Plan 2 Engineering, Technology, Art, and Literacy.
Title:
A. Create a descriptive name for the activity
B. Use three to four sentences to describe or introduce the reader to your plan.
C. Create a Content web showing the Plan 1 or Plan 2 content areas. Paste an image or screenshot of the web in the shaded area.
1. Curriculum Focus Areas:
A. State the curriculum content areas emphasized in your plan.
B. In two or three paragraphs, define each of the content areas used and describe how the content areas are integrated .
C. Explain how your learning plan is connected to each content area.
D. Connect your plan to at least one of the Preschool Learning Foundations for each content area of focus.
E. Plan 2 only – engineering and technology are not specific content areas in the Preschool Learning Foundations. Instead, choose a foundation for each that you believe is related and explain why.
2. Developmental Domains: Describe how your activity will promote development in each of the following areas:
A. Cognitive (problem-solving, thinking, and reasoning). How will your activity promote development in this area. Identify one DRDP (2015) cognitive measure that could be observed during this learning plan.
B. Social (group identity, pro-social behaviors, interpersonal skills, friendship) How will your activity promote development in this area. Identify one DRDP (2015) social-emotional development measure that could be observed during this learning plan.
C. Emotional (self-esteem, joy, satisfaction, pride). How will your activity promote development in this area. Identify one DRDP (2015) social- emotional development measure that could be observed during this learning plan.
D. Physical (fine motor, gross motor, eye-hand coordination). How will your activity promote development in this area. Identify one DRDP (2015) physical development/health measure that could be observed during this learning plan.
3. Intellectual Goals/Dispositions:
A. Discuss the opportunities children will have to practice intellectual goals such as curiosity, desire to learn, meaningful engagement, etc. as they participate in this plan. (See Young Investigators for further information.)
Sample Solution
As lifelong learners, STEAM education encourages pupils to be curious and experiment. Because it promotes critical thinking and invention, inquiry-based learning is a perfect fit for STEAM. Let’s look at the science underpinning inquiry-based STEAM instruction and some of the tactics that have been employed to keep kids engaged. The push for STEM/STEAM education began in earnest in the early 2000s, and it galvanized educators and legislators to see the importance of preparing today’s kids for a technologically-based future and a changing workforce. “Four billion people on the earth use a cell phone, while 3.5 billion people use a toothbrush,” according to the Smithsonian Science Education Center. 90 percent of the world’s data has been generated in the last two years.
