STEAM in 21st century elementary education: action-research for development of educational scenarios

This research plan aims to answer the following questions: i) How can we integrate the Arts with the other STEM disciplines? What is the suitability of the STEAM approach to the context of Primary Education (1st and 2nd cycles)? What could be the characteristics of a STEAM laboratory aimed at children of these cycles? To this end, the following objectives are presented: to deepen and develop creative and investigative activities in a STEAM approach, to design and implement didactic and scientific resources in a STEAM Lab created for this purpose, to analyze, interpret and collect data on the pedagogical development of the activities carried out in the STEAM Lab, and to discuss their application in the context. The time plan presented is organized in four phases: 1) approach to the research problem; 2) action preparation; 3) case study development; 4) reflection, writing and dissemination. Each one of them exposes a set of tasks that range from the collection of existing information on the theme to the elaboration of the final report.

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