Dạy học chủ đề “Chất” theo định hướng giáo dục STEM trong môn Khoa học lớp 4

Tóm tắt

STEM education has been applied in many countries around the world, including Vietnam. In particular, STEM education fulfills the innovation requirements regarding learners’ competences development embedded in the 2018 General Education Program. Applying the theory of STEM education, the research proposes the teaching process for the topic ‘Substance’ in Science subject Grade 4 to develop students’ scientific competences. Teaching activities according to the STEM educational process are specified in two lesson plans under the topic of Substance in Science subject Grade 4. The experimental results show that the students were highly interested and actively performed the learning tasks in a creative way. Through the implementation of the learning tasks, the students developed the competence to learn about the surrounding natural world and the competence to apply learned knowledge and skills  in real life. This result proves that applying STEM education in teaching the substance topic in the Science subject grade 4 according to the designed process helped to develop scientific competences for the students.