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STEM:It’s Child’s Play

STEM:It’s Child’s Play. Tennessee Technological University Millard Oakley STEM Center March, 2014 Martha Ramsey Putnam County School System Haley McCulley TTU Resident with PCSS. Essential as we begin. Definition of Play Definition of STEM Definition of DAP. Definition of Play.

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STEM:It’s Child’s Play

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  1. STEM:It’s Child’s Play Tennessee Technological University Millard Oakley STEM Center March, 2014 Martha Ramsey Putnam County School System Haley McCulley TTU Resident with PCSS

  2. Essential as we begin • Definition of Play • Definition of STEM • Definition of DAP

  3. Definition of Play • “Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.” ---Friedrich Froebel, 1887 • From Dimensions, 2014 description of engineer in his 90s play…..

  4. Characteristics of Play • Play is voluntary. • Play requires active involvement. • Play is symbolic. • Play is free of external rules. • Play focuses on action rather than outcomes. • Play is pleasurable.

  5. Developmentally Appropriate Practice DAP involves teachers meeting young children where they are (by stage of development), both as individuals and as part of a group; and helping each child meet challenging and achievable learning goals. NAEYC, 2014

  6. 3 Core Principles of DAP • Knowing about child development and learning. • Knowing what is individually appropriate. • Knowing what is culturally important.

  7. Definition of STEM • STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEM literacy and with it the ability to compete in the new economy.

  8. STEM—in the early years? • According to Dr. Sherri Killins, “What STEM does is give a label to what you are already doing… helping children to explore, observe, ask questions, predict, integrate their learning…  its what we’ve always done in early childhood education.”

  9. Academic/Intellectual Learning

  10. Advice for teaching STEM in the early years---- • Be intentional about what you are doing. • Guide children to ask question, then predict the outcome. • Use things available to you.

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