The Project
STEM-xhibitions: Focuses on directly connecting science and education so as to raise the collective awareness of students on climate change.
STEM-xhibitions addresses this priority by offering an innovative pedagogical methodology to be utilised in secondary schools in the teaching of STEM-related subjects. The cross-disciplinary nature of this methodology allows for students to actively partake in the learning experience increasing student interest and engagement in STEM. This will expand scientific education and literacy of students, positively impacting the decision of students to pursue further studies in the STEM fields
STEM-xhibitions, aims to enhance interest, engagement and subsequently performance of secondary school STEM students while also promoting their transversal skills and public engagement in scientific Research & Investigation (R&I) through methods of co-creation. The STEM-xhibtions project aims to assist secondary schools to integrate a methodology whereby student interest, engagement and performance in STEM education is increased through their involvement in the co-creation of student curated exhibitions on STEM topics.
STEM-xhibitons provides a cross-disciplinary and innovative methodology for teaching and learning in STEM subjects, combining the scientific knowledge with creative practices. STEM-xhibitions is able to cultivate not only the scientific skills and knowledge but also transversal ones while simultaneously promoting public engagement and collaboration in science and between citizens and scientific experts through methods of co-creation.
The project’s General Objectives are the following:
Engage and enhance interest in improving the performance of secondary school STEM students
Promotion of skills & public engagement in scientific Research & Investigation through co-creative methods
Creation of new pedagogical methods for teaching & learning STEM subjects in secondary schools by an integrated approach utilizing interactive digital tools to ignite student interest & engagement
Scientific knowledge is combined with creative practices in the realisation of students-curated art exhibitions based on the STEM topics provided, while also incorporating co-creative methods of learning.
The Results of STEM-xhibitions will be the following:
( 1 ) A Pedagogical E-book “The benefits of Student Curated Exhibitions in STEM teaching and learning, utilising methods of co-creation”
( 2 ) STEM Virtual Toolkit
( 3 ) Phygital Exhibition Implementation Guide