Research on the Training Mode of Children's Engineering Thinking with the Concept of STEAM Education

Abstract

As one of the channels to cultivate compound talents with innovative features, STEAM education, has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. Engineering thinking, among the core qualities of STEAM education, has gained increasingly growing importance in the K12 stage. The main aim of the study is to analyze the training mode of children's engineering thinking with the concept of steam education. With "paper-cutting" as the theme of the teaching activity, this research selects 16 fourth-grade primary school students as the research objects and carries out three rounds of teaching activities under the framework of STEAM activities for the cultivation of engineering thinking capability. Through three rounds of iterations with the action research method, as well as the overall scoring table and the sub-item scoring table to conduct paired sample t-test on the data of the three rounds of the teaching process, it is found that STEAM education has a significant effect on improving children's engineering thinking capability.