STEAM Learning Lab at OSB

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taught together in a way that shows how the knowledge from those two fields compliment and support each other. STEAM reflects real life. Jobs in the real world are interdisciplinary. children needs to be educated as in how subjects integrate and work together to develop diverse skills sets and a passion for
exploration and growth. Benefits of STEAM learning

STEM embraces the 4 C’s identified as key in 21st Century education: Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication. In addition, students who participate in STEAM learning understand the ways that science, maths, engineering, arts, and technology work together and become increasingly curious about the world around them and feel empowered to change it for the better. What does STEAM learning look like? STEAM learning is inquiry and focus on real-world problems
The entire idea surrounding STEAM lessons and the STEAM approach is that it’s based around questioning. Questions are driven by the learners, and failure is reframed as part of the learning process. Goals, decisions, and solutions are generated by the students within the limitations of their learning context (such as access to materials and tools, or achieving curriculum standards). Children control their own investigations. As long as the inquiry results in a product that provides a solution to a real problem, the inquiry is authentically STEAM. STEAM challenges require students to make, tinker and build. Bringing in methods from art and design can take STEAM projects to their full creative potential. STEAM learning approaches

STEAM is an integrated approach to learning which requires an intentional connection between standards, assessments and lesson design/implementation. True STEAM experiences involve two or more standards from Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts to be taught AND assessed in and through each other.