STEAM Kindergarden Málaga

• DAY 1: LEGO DUPLO. A DAY FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

What does STEAM Education mean?

Why is it necessary to talk about robotics and programming in a STEAM Classroom?

Which software and materials can we use in our projects?

EARLY MACHINES LEGO EDUCATION – This activity includes gears, levers, pulleys, and wheels and axles, as well as a plastic punch-out sheet with eyes, sails, scales and wings. Hands-on learning provides a medium for building ideas and models while practicing important skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. For more than 40 years, LEGO Education has been developing educational solutions based on a well-established educational theory that children learn best and remember more through hands-on experiences.

CREATIVE BUILDERS LEGO EDUCATION – In this activity we try to develop an understanding of 2D and 3D shapes. The game is designed to encourage collaboration and storytelling. It also helps develop the use of descriptive language and an understanding of the different roles and emotions that relate to community life.

• DAY 2: STORIES AND PROGRAMMING: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY

Workshop1: STORY TALES WITH LEGO EDUCATION – In this activity we try to promote creativity, imaginative storytelling and language development with this unique and engaging storytelling game. In your class, students will naturally collaborate and develop speaking and listening skills as they build their stories and role plays.

Workshop 2 : BEEBOT. SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMMING IN A BEE. Our robotic bee friend is a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language, and programming. It is also a fantastic resource for transdisciplinary activities and with it, meaningful game-based learning is possible! Students will also find it more accessible to everyone, including those with auditory or visual processing needs.

• DAY 3: A STEP FORWARD

Workshop 1: LEGO Education WeDo 1.0 – This set allows us to build and program robots by using motors, sensors and LEGO pieces.

Workshop 2: SCRATCH JUNIOR – Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.

• DAY 4: ENGINEERING

Workshop 1: SIMPLE MACHINES LEGO EDUCATION – Engineering, mechanics, physics, science, … and much more. Fun as a way to reach the little ones.

Workshop 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Artificial intelligence seems like an endless world, even for adults. But from an early age you can understand how machines learn from simple models, with hundreds of examples…

• DAY 5: MY OWN STEAM PROJECT

Participants will choose a curricular topic of any subject and design a project to implement in their classroom, based on the STEAM methodology.

Project presentation and evaluation

The motto of this course is “Learning by Doing”.

We will make a tour through all the fields forming STEAM education and we will develop several multidisciplinary projects in relation to specific fields.

At the end of the course, participants will have created their own STEAM project based on a curricular subject and using the necessary programming tools and/or game.

The skills acquired by the participants can be useful for:

• Promoting the use of programmes to create stories, games and activities in an intuitive way.
• Providing students with knowledge that will help them later during their careers.
• Selecting materials that allow to execute all the ideas of the group.
• Designing a modern classroom that meets present and future needs.
• Enhancing students’ critical and transversal thinking, achieving a meaningful learning that will enable them to solve problems inside and outside the classroom.
• Educating more competitive citizens for the present and the future in an organic way, enhancing their interest towards STEAM fields.
• Being able to attract the attention and curiosity of their students, and therefore promoting the technical vocations of the future.
• Assisting in the research of new ICT educational tools, even in their invention.