Developing the lesson plan of STEM education: designing Moringa leaf tea

Abstract

The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of the designing Moringa leaf tea. The STEM education learning activity will be developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from identification of social issue of designing the tea from the Moringa leaf that Indonesian people usually eat Moringa leaves as a vegetable. The issue of making a tea from moringa leaf could motivate students to design not only moringa tea but also various favor of teas, label or packaging. Then, the lesson plan will provide activities regarding on the 7 stages of Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education in order to scaffold students to practice knowledge for designing some technology prototypes or products through engineer design process. For making something related to moringa tea, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. These knowledges include chemistry (e.g. temperature, oxidation, basic measurement skills), Physics (e.g. heat transfer, energy), mathematics (e.g. the ratio of the ingredients, measurement skills, conversion of units), arts (e.g. creative packaging and presentation of their Moringa Leaf Tea and the flavor variant), and so on. This paper may have implications for designing STEM education learning activities.