STEAM is Important
STEAM is Important

Keep building up

Keep building up


STEAM is important for developing children through the combination of multiple disciplines and learning opportunities. Through playing, the children are also learning. By playing, children are able to work through problems in a fun and dynamic way. What part goes where? How does something spinning make other parts move? How do motors and sensors work, and why? All of these questions and more are asked and answered throughout the building process allowing kids to form their own hypothesis on how and why something will work and test those ideas.

The added benefit of using STEAM in the hospital setting is that it also becomes a therapeutic tool. Encouraging children with limited mobility to stand, bend, and stretch to change the curse of their robot. Inspiring kids with limited finger strength to push bricks together and improve dexterity and fine motor skills. STEAM provides the added benefit of distracting them from pain, a scary procedure, or surgery by shifting their focus towards an engaging and educational experience.

STEAM is important because it helps teachers incorporate multiple disciplines at the same time and promotes learning experiences that allow children to explore, question, research, discover, and exercise innovative building skills.
STEAM is important because it helps teachers incorporate multiple disciplines at the same time and promotes learning experiences that allow children to explore, question, research, discover, and exercise innovative building skills.

(Colker and Simon, 2014)


Science

Science


Science is a systematic and logical approach to discovering how things in the universe work. Children are actively forming hypotheses and testing them out when constructing a build.

Technology

Technology


Children will be using iPad’s to connect to robots via Bluetooth. Children will also be using an application to design and control the robot’s functions.

Engineering

Engineering


Inventing, innovating, designing, and building are characteristics of engineering that children will be imploring in order to build a robot.

Arts

Arts


Although children will be following instructions to complete a robot, they have the ability to make each build unique by using different pieces and colors, which is a reflection of their artistic touch. Using a variety of colors and bricks, children can put their own creative spin on things.

Math

Math


For young kids, simply counting bricks as they play makes numbers seem friendly. As kids get older, they can add, subtract and more with Lego’s figuring out what pieces they need, how many, and why.


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