Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities
STEM is an educational practice to integrate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology within the formal and informal context and it provides practical opportunities for the child to make sense of the world holistically. Moreover, the most important benefit of STEM activities for children,...
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Seyit Ahmet Kıray
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STEM is an educational practice to integrate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology within the formal and informal context and it provides practical opportunities for the child to make sense of the world holistically. Moreover, the most important benefit of STEM activities for children, including engineering design, is to improve or support children's science and mathematics skills and social-emotional development. In this study, therefore, it was aimed to investigate children’s science motivation as well as their usage of scientific process skills during inquiry-based STEM activities including engineering designs. Fourteen 5/6-years-old children included in the study and classroom observations, pre and post interviews were conducted to collect rich data. The findings revealed that children frequently engaged in STEM activities by employing at least one of the science process skills and they used engineering thinking apart from the science process skills. Moreover, following inquiry-based STEM activities, children have recognized science as an area of activity, and there have been positive changes in their motivation towards science.
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| spelling | doaj-art-45ce46109b8d437889cb637cb45a49282025-02-03T21:52:28ZengSeyit Ahmet KırayJournal of Education in Science, Environment and Health2149-214X2020-04-016294Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM ActivitiesHasan Dilek0Adem TasdemirAhmet Sami KoncaSerdal BaltaciAhi Evran University STEM is an educational practice to integrate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology within the formal and informal context and it provides practical opportunities for the child to make sense of the world holistically. Moreover, the most important benefit of STEM activities for children, including engineering design, is to improve or support children's science and mathematics skills and social-emotional development. In this study, therefore, it was aimed to investigate children’s science motivation as well as their usage of scientific process skills during inquiry-based STEM activities including engineering designs. Fourteen 5/6-years-old children included in the study and classroom observations, pre and post interviews were conducted to collect rich data. The findings revealed that children frequently engaged in STEM activities by employing at least one of the science process skills and they used engineering thinking apart from the science process skills. Moreover, following inquiry-based STEM activities, children have recognized science as an area of activity, and there have been positive changes in their motivation towards science. https://jeseh.net/index.php/jeseh/article/view/251Early childhoodSTEM activitiesScience process skillsScience motivation |
| spellingShingle | Hasan Dilek Adem Tasdemir Ahmet Sami Konca Serdal Baltaci Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health Early childhood STEM activities Science process skills Science motivation |
| title | Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities |
| title_full | Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities |
| title_fullStr | Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities |
| title_short | Preschool Children’s Science Motivation and Process Skills during Inquiry-Based STEM Activities |
| title_sort | preschool children s science motivation and process skills during inquiry based stem activities |
| topic | Early childhood STEM activities Science process skills Science motivation |
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