What Is STEM Day Essay

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Introduction
Nowadays, science becomes more fun for students and teachers. In the past, the students were sitting in their share listening to the teacher talking .Now the students encouraged in experimenting, thinking, building, observing, exploring, problem solving, and creating. One way to do that is by STEM activates. In this essay, I will discuss the value of inquiry-based, and how I implement it in STEM Day, I explain how students are assessed, how I build literacy skills and I will reflect on the STEM Day.
STEM
STEM is referred to science, technology, engraining and math. It helps the students to have a deep understanding of the content and develop other skills like problem solving, cooperation, creativity and communication, all these …show more content…

"Inquiry" is defined as "a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge -- seeking information by questioning." (WENT Education, n.d). Both approaches required the students to think more deeply about the content not memorize information .Also, to involve the students more in the learning to be independent learner in the future .The process of the inquiry based learning are ask ,investigate ,create ,discuss and …show more content…

Literacy in science help the students to interact with each other by asking questions and seeking for answers.” Literacy is fundamental to all areas of learning, as it unlocks access to the wider curriculum” (Education Scotland, n.d). Also, students need literacy to understand the science concept through reading, listening and seeing .In the STEM Day the students were given opportunity to solve the problem through written, oral or visual presentations to have exposure to language. The students were able to read books, watch videos, talk with the teachers to ask questions and to answer questions. There were posters in the walls to provide the students in rich language environment. Also, the students did an information writing using the information they read and hear and made a

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