使用低结构材料开展幼儿STEAM教育的实践与探索

The Practice and Exploration of Using Low-structure Material to Develop STEAM Education for Children

针对STEAM教育需要昂贵且高科技的材料的弊端,利用常见的低结构材料“零散”和“可移动”的特性,给予幼儿充分的活动自由和解决问题的机会与环境。重视低结构材料可实现STEAM活动的选材、过程和作品自由,为幼儿提供面对问题的机会和重视工程技术问题的环境。

STEAM education is currently a popular teaching mode that will help cultivate the creativity and problem-solving ability of future talents.While attracting attention,existing studies have also revealed a variety of problems in the practice of STEAM.Among them,people think that STEAM education requires expensive and high-tech materials which hinder the high-quality development of STEAM education.The―fragmented‖and―movable‖characteristics of common low-structure materials can give children sufficient freedom of movement and opportunities and environment to solve problems in STEAM education.Low-structure materials can realize the freedom of material selection,process and work of STEAM activities,and can provide children with opportunities to face problems and an environment that values engineering and technical problems.