The Development Of Life-oriented Science Experiment Based On STEM In Primary Schools

With the rapid development of global scientific technology,contemporary science education is increasingly inclined to integrate science,technology,engineering and mathematics education to form a comprehensive and interdisciplinary course.The concept of STEM education was clearly put forward in the New Science Curriculum Standards of primary school and it emphasizes the significance of engineering and technology learning.Students' learning contents of science are from common life phenomena around their lives,thus it is easier for the students to cultivate their abilities to solve problems in the operational activities of scientific experiments and to experience the great changes that science and technology brought to mankind.Therefore,it is necessary that the research integrated the STEM education with the life-oriented scientifically experimental teaching of primary school should be carried out to develop specific experimental teaching cases and gain some implications.Based on the educational philosophy of STEM,the research is to develop life-oriented science experiments of primary school.Literature research method,qualitative research method and empirical research method and so forth,will be mainly adopted in this research.Firstly,through the analysis of a large number of existing literatures,the understanding of the status quo of domestic and foreign STEM education and the status quo of the life-oriented science experiments of primary school,the research foundation was laid.Then the theoretical basis of life-oriented experiment research was elaborated;the definitions of STEM Education,life-oriented experiment and development were defined.In addition,combined with STEM Education,the principles of the development of life-oriented experiment in primary school,such as life-oriented,model-oriented and bionics-oriented,and the general development process from the establishment of the subject,the experimental analysis,the experimental design to the test and improvement were put forward.Then,four experimental contents,making a paradise,moving a car like flying a rocket,self-made straw boat,building a high tower,from the science text book of educational and scientific version in primary school,were chosen to make a specific analysis.Combining with the development principles and the general development process,the specific cases of primary school's life-oriented science experiments integrated the STEM education were designed.Finally,the application effect of the developed experimental cases was analyzed and the further suggestions to perfect the development of life-oriented experiment in primary schools were put forward so as to gain the implications for follow-up development of the experimental cases through the application of the developed cases and the interview of the science teachers and students surrounding the present author.Through the research,it is expected to offer some reference for most primary science teachers who are working on integrating STEM educational concept with scientifically life-oriented experimental teaching in primary schools.Meanwhile,it is hoped that China's science education will be normalized,the improvement of the students' scientific literacy will be promoted gradually and more innovatively scientific and technological talents with global competitiveness will be cultivated through more science teachers' joint efforts.