5 Reasons Why STEM Education is Important (And Fun)

Would it really be necessary to explain what STEM Education is again? I could do a quick preview.

STEM Education is a system of four, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. And, this system is woven in such a way that they are interdependent on one another. This means that a STEM student is not just learning one phase of the programme, but is learning all four from a point or from one activity. But, why is this STEM Education really important? Why is it necessary for my child to have this orientation? What is the long term return if I invest and go into this STEM Education for my child? What makes it so different from the things they learn in school? Is it not going to be a waste of years?

You sure do have a lot of questions to ask. Because, of course, this is the life and future of your child we’re talking about here. It’s not easy to leave the normal traditional learning that you went through and that a lot of other kids around you are going through, and just start something new and different for your own child. But, I would love to douse your doubts one after the other.

Here are 5 reasons why STEM Education is important and fun!

1. The STEM activities provide hands-on and minds-on lessons for its students.

It ensures that as the students are learning and creating and working with their hands and eyes, their minds are working too, to connect all the dots and see outside the box and thinking frame that they are used to. The students can correlate the different procedures after each step is well understood and can create a different or similar pattern to get the same result. Take for example, a child that is being taught a particular maths sum by using sticky notes number match or any other fun STEM method. He can play around with those sums and come up with an entirely different approach that even you did not see. That is the power of the brain and the mind and STEM Education is just to help harness that power

2. Cooking is also Education in STEM Education

This might sound funny but yes, cooking is also a way to educate the student when it comes to STEM. With it, the students can learn about all the properties of food and why certain foods are not given to certain people. In baking classes, the action of yeast is well elaborated to the students which also be linked to the way rockets are launched. The students can also use a thermometer to measure temperature and then learn the effect of adding things to boiling water. The students also learn how many teaspoons of ingredients will be sufficient for the food being cooked.

Take for example, we are trying to boil meat and we have 9 big chunks of meat but we are a big class of 18 students, the STEM teacher can just ask them what they think should be done so that the meat goes round for everybody. How fast the students come up with  ideas will surprise you.

3. The STEM programme allows the students to dismantle and assemble things.

This is to enable them to see how that thing works. It also opens the gateway for the many questions that the student may have. It also builds resilience in the students and encourages experimentation. It allows them to see failure and setbacks as a part of the growth to being better. It also builds an outspoken child with a wider horizon of understanding and an open mind.         

4. Taking Nature Walks is also part of STEM Education

You know how in our traditional system of learning, students get to visit a place or go on an excursion once or twice before leaving the school and the excursion venues are recycled year after year. Well, for STEM Education, it is believed that there is knowledge in everything and everywhere. So, a common walk in the park can make a child curious about so many things, a visit to the aquarium could make a child ask why the sea water is blue and why the fishes are of different colours while the one his mommy cooks doesn’t have colour. A visit to the tree reserve could explain oxygen and carbon dioxide and why trees are very important to society.

5. STEM Education exposes the student

This does not mean that it puts the student in harm’s way. No. It simply means that it exposes the student to important issues in the world, new and updated learning strategies, modern people to learn from, wrong ways people are doing some things too. It exposes the student but also arms him with the necessary information and strategy coupled with his expanded and cultivated ability to think outside the box, to make a difference.

The future of your child is not guaranteed by this traditional learning system. For further information on STEM Education or to begin today, visit www.getbundi.com