Moreover, children are natural scientists, engineers and problem solvers. They ponder the world around them and try to make sense of it the best way they know how by touching, tasting, building, dismantling, creating, discovering, and exploring. They can be absorbed in building lego blocks or solving rubik’s cubes for hours. Research shows that play has a key role in developing, encouraging and promoting problem silving skills from birth and throughout life. So for kids, after school STEM classes or lego plays with a hands-on bent aren’t just educational. They’re fun and boost holistic development!
STEM education is a spectrum that focuses on solving real problems which have an interdisciplinary nature at its core. Another view is that STEM education is a meta-discipline based on learning standards where teaching has integrated teaching and learning approaches, and where specific content is undivided, contemplating a dynamic and fluid instruction. More recently, STEM education has been defined as an interdisciplinary teaching method that integrates science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and other knowledge, skills, and beliefs, in particular, to these disciplines. The ambit of STEM courses is therefore broad to encompass problem-solving with real-world problems that integrate many disciplines.
This multi-disciplinary character of STEM courses can help prepare a child for longer term career and life success that needn’t be in a STEM-related area such as programming, computer science or laboratory work. Innovative thinking, collaborative skills and engaged curiosity nurture a transformation from child to versatile professional in an evolving workplace. Although it is important to note that in order to optimize the benefits from extracurricular STEM classes, researchers suggest that STEM learning needs to be encouraged from an early age and that STEM interest is largely fully formed by the age of 10-14 years.
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