This article is a qualitative study using literature review to create a lesson plan in STEM education. The lesson plan employs the pedagogy of purposeful design and inquiry. This proposes combining elements of design, art, geography and marketing into the disciplines in scientific inquiry of the STEM education in order to further strengthen it. The embedded lesson plan focused on identifying and solving social issues while hitting as many as possible learning competencies along the way. This lesson plan will serve as a contextualize application of learning competencies in Grade 8 Integrated science: biology, chemistry and physics as well as mathematics’ topic on statistics and social sciences’ topic on local geography. This study also include innovation and humanities so students learn skills such as communication, marketing and entrepreneurship. This will also be implemented with the goal of steering students’ interests towards a career in STEM and developing more 21st century as well as life skills that they can use in the future. The student activity in this lesson plan will be assisted and evaluated by the teacher through questions that are framed to encourage deep thinking about the concepts integrated in the activity and how it would be used to produce quality product that would solve the social issue presented at the beginning of the lesson.
This research is experimental research with a quantitative approach that aims to "determine the effect of a project-based learning model on students' creative thinking skills by making a herbarium. In this study, the sample used was 51 students. The data collection techniques used in this study were tests and documentation. The results showed that "the experimental class had an average posttest score of 72.47 and the control class had a posttest average score of 57.53. The results of the creative thinking skills of the experimental class for indicators of fluency were 79%, flexibility 71%, originality 73%, and elaboration 56%; the control class had an average value for each indicator which was lower than the experimental class. This study’s results indicate an "influence in the use of the project-based learning model through making a herbarium on the creative thinking skills of students in grade 4 MI NU Miftahul Ulum Loram Kulon. The effect of the project-based learning model on students' creative thinking skills is evidenced by the regression equation Y=18.802 + 0.933X. The existence of this project-based learning model has a positive and significant relationship of 0.877 which is included in the very strong category and can contribute to students in improving students' creative thinking skills by 76.9%.
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