Spark: Indoor & outdoor STEAM activities in early childhood education
Published:
Sep 25, 2023
Keywords:
STEAM Kindergarten Early Childhood Education
Abstract
In the last years, STEAM Education is gradually increased in kindergarten and in Early Childhood Education, in general. The present paper presents the process of designing and developing a set of STEAM activities for early childhood education through the program SPARK. Specifically, the paper presents the indoor and outdoor STEAM activities that follow the Engineering Design Process, a problem-solving process. In addition, the overall actions of the project, the stages of the material development, the preliminary results from the pilot testing and the prospects are presented.
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