Early Learning STEM Australia (CRCOS) #00212K 2018 Pilot Educator workshops ELSA is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training through the National Innovation and Science Agenda
STEM in the early years (CRCOS) #00212K
We already do STEM everyday • BUT we often do not make it explicit • We need to let children know we are doing STEM (CRCOS) #00212K
Making STEM more explicit Children might not consider the relationship between the amount of water/sand and how fast the wheel (CRCOS) #00212K spins unless an adult stimulates this thinking.
Making STEM more explicit When children build block structures they need to consider aspects such as size, (CRCOS) #00212K balance, scale because that is what STEM practitioners do.
Making STEM more explicit When children contest who has more… • Look for ways to (CRCOS) #00212K discover together • Justify what is fair • Consider solutions
Why STEM in the early years • Children’s attitudes about STEM and about themselves as STEM learners are formed early • Children from different SES backgrounds enter kindergarten with large differences in maths and science knowledge and these differences tend to (CRCOS) #00212K persist and grow over time
Why STEM in early childhood Just like language and literacy, STEM education should start early in order to (CRCOS) #00212K maximise its benefits and effectiveness.
Children need adults to develop their “natural” STEM inclinations It is not enough to just let children discover for themselves. (CRCOS) #00212K
Beliefs about STEM • Children form beliefs about STEM very early • Adults beliefs about STEM influence children (CRCOS) #00212K
Social norms about science and maths compared to literacy (CRCOS) #00212K University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science 1995 - 2008
STEM in the real world Builder Horticulturalist (CRCOS) #00212K Surfboard Architect Designer
STEM practices in the early years Before formal Play-based learning Integrated engagement schooling Connected to world During school & Directed learning • Content focused • university (CRCOS) #00212K Connected to testing • After formal Workplace learning • Integrated engagement • schooling Connected to world •
STEM Practices IDEAS METHODS VALUES Problem Finding Generating Ideas Curiosity Finding and Validating Processing Information Fairness Evidence Encoding and Decoding Questioning Imagination Information (CRCOS) #00212K Using Appropriate Language Proposing Creativity and Vocabulary Using Tools to Produce Designing and Building Teamwork Artefacts Exploring and Challenging Thinking Critically Persistence
STEM booklist • How many of these titles do you know? (CRCOS) #00212K
STEM books • Choose a book from the display and read it • Identify one or two STEM Practices • Think of ideas for how can this book can (CRCOS) #00212K be used to develop your identified STEM practices with your children • Gallery walk
ELSA apps and STEM Spatial Reasoning Patterns and Relationships Location and Arrangement (App 1) (App 2) Sorting, Ordering, Patterning, Position, Location, Arrangement, Representing Orientation (CRCOS) #00212K Investigating Representations (App 4) (App 3) Decoding, Encoding, Conditionals, Using Tools, Finding Evidence, Debugging Problem Posing and Solving Problem Posing
App 1 App 2 Patterns Locations Educator App Lunch boxes Little helpers (sorting) (position) Photo story Hide & seek (ordering) (location) Directions Playground Let’s decorate Let’s dance (orientation) (arrangement) (patterning) (representing) App 3 App 4 (CRCOS) #00212K Families App Representations Investigations Let’s tinker Make Instruments (water) (decoding) Animal Clues (clues) Play in a band (encoding) Dress for our Make sounds Create your celebration (debugging) Bug Discovery Clues (find) (conditionals) (tool)
ERA loop Experience… through off-app activities to establish foundation concepts STEM Practices Represent… by showing an Ideas understanding of concepts through the Methods (CRCOS) #00212K use of on-app activities Values Apply… by demonstrating concepts off-app across different contexts
ERA example App 1: Patterns and Relationships In Experience , children find, copy and extend patterns off app. In Represent , children create (CRCOS) #00212K patterns with objects to decorate a cubby on app. In Apply , children create patterns with sound and objects, and decorate using patterns off app.
App 1 Patterns and Relationships (CRCOS) #00212K
Patterns and Relationships - overview EYLF Being Belonging Becoming Patterns are all around us, Exploring relationships As children create patterns, (CRCOS) #00212K exploring the world between objects gives sort, and order with children new ways to objects they gain capacities consider relationships that help in their transition between people to school
How can I show what I have done with my body? With objects? Representing What can I do? With my body? With objects? Patterning How are we the same and different? How are objects the same or different? (CRCOS) #00212K Comparing What am I like? What are other things like? What can I do? Describing Attributes
Showing what I have done Representing Creating with objects Patterning Same and different Comparing and ordering (CRCOS) #00212K Me and other things Describing Attributes
Sorting and ordering – Core Ideas Sorting. Sorting is the idea that items in a group share a common attribute. The three D’s of sorting are Decide on the attribute to sort upon (e.g. colour); (CRCOS) #00212K Do the sort; and Describe the sort (e.g. here are all the red things, blue things etc.)
Sorting - conceptualisation • A key area in understanding patterns and relationships. • Children build early understandings of (CRCOS) #00212K numbers, patterns, algebra, measurement and spatial reasoning. • Children develop logic and communication skills.
Sorting - Experience The DDD of sorting 1. Decide 2. Do 3. Describe (CRCOS) #00212K • Sort the Attribute Blocks • Sort the Family Counters
What’s in our lunch box? - Represent (CRCOS) #00212K
Sorting - Apply • Look in the Educator app and find a sorting activity for Apply (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator E and A activities (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator E and A activities Apply Experience (CRCOS) #00212K Sorting plastic lids into jars First we sorted them into nature / man-made, then toy / rubbish, then inside / outside
Ordering - Experience • Can you order the sticks? • Can you order the water bottles on your table? (CRCOS) #00212K
Photo Album - Represent (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator Apply activities (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator Apply activities (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator Apply activities (CRCOS) #00212K
Patterning - Experience (CRCOS) #00212K
Patterning - Experience Educators experience off app the different types of patterning activities • Copy • Extend (CRCOS) #00212K • Missing items /incorrect items • Create
Let’s Decorate- Represent (CRCOS) #00212K
Patterning - Apply What patterns can you make using the counters? (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator E and A activities (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator E and A activities AB pattern ABB pattern (CRCOS) #00212K
Previous educator E and A activities (CRCOS) #00212K
Let’s Dance - Experience • Let’s Play “Simon Says…Dance” • We will then associate symbols to the moves (CRCOS) #00212K
Let’s Dance - Represent (CRCOS) #00212K
Let’s Dance – Out in the Australian Bush Chorus 1 Chorus 2 (CRCOS) #00212K Chorus 3 Chorus 4
Let’s Dance - Apply (CRCOS) #00212K
Pathways to AC Mathematics • Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point. (CRCOS) #00212K • Sort and classify familiar objects and explain the basis for these classifications. Copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings.
Pathways to AC Mathematics • Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning. • Use direct and indirect comparisons to (CRCOS) #00212K decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning.
Pathways to AC Science • Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses. • Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas. (CRCOS) #00212K • Share observations and ideas. • Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events.
Pathways to AC Technologies (Digital Technologies) • Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams. • Collect, explore and sort data, and use (CRCOS) #00212K digital systems to present the data creatively.
Educator app Do you know about and use these features? (CRCOS) #00212K
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