The importance of STEM education is self-evident. STEM education helps to cultivate students' scientific inquiry ability, innovative consciousness, critical thinking, information technology ability and other key abilities to adapt to the future, and may continue to play a role in future life and work. Gerststein thinks that integrating stem education into primary and secondary school curriculum is an unavoidable problem.
With the joint efforts of the scientific and educational circles, STEM education has gradually entered basic education at the beginning of this century. There are several important documents related to the primary school curriculum in my country. The first is "The Core Competence of Chinese Student Development", which is the core of each discipline. Leading by literacy. The core literacy of student development mainly refers to the necessary qualities and key abilities that students should have that can meet the needs of life-long development and social development, including three aspects, six elements, and eighteen basic points. Among them, scientific spirit is related to science. Responsibility, practical innovation, problem solving, technology application, and social responsibility are all related to the primary school curriculum.
"Primary School Science Curriculum Standards", which clearly advocates interdisciplinary learning methods, mainly STEM education, and proposes that STEM education is a project learning and problem solving-oriented curriculum organization method that integrates science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Integration is conducive to the cultivation of students' innovative ability. Increase the diversity, fairness, and tolerance of STEM education, and prepare the STEM workforce for the future.
The way to succeed in STEM is to emphasize interdisciplinary learning and computational thinking. Elementary science teachers are faced with various science teacher trainings, requiring teachers to also understand STEM education, relying on the existing conditions for training teachers in existing subjects, and optimizing the curriculum structure. Strengthen in-service teacher training in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, science, computer, and comprehensive practical activities, and explore and deepen STEM education through project participation.
In the future, we will build the literacy standards for STEM teachers in our country, so elementary science teachers must understand STEM education, and we must also consider incorporating STEM curriculum design into the curriculum.