Author(s)

Guangjian Ma ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Henan Province IUR Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450046, China

Corresponding Author

Guangjian Ma

ABSTRACT

The STEAM education concept is a comprehensive education model that integrates the five elements of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. Children are the hope of the future, and the education of children needs to keep up with the pace of the times. The traditional early childhood education separates subjects through curriculum, resulting in a serious simplification of the ability to cultivate talents and a lack of comprehensiveness. The STEAM education concept can integrate the content of the courses learned by children, so that children can receive systematic and comprehensive education in the future, which can stimulate children's interest in learning, expand children's learning knowledge, and improve children's learning efficiency. This experiment compares the future kindergarten science education integration curriculum based on the STEAM concept and the traditional kindergarten education curriculum. The results show that the kindergarten science education integration course based on the STEAM concept has 29.0% more active learning than the traditional education model, 43.7% more in the acquisition of interdisciplinary knowledge. The kindergarten children' average self-solving ability is 46.5% and 33.3% respectively. In terms of activity room learning efficiency, the results are 74.6% and 63.3%, respectively. Through the comparison of four aspects, the teaching quality of kindergarten education courses based on the STEAM concept is better than that of traditional kindergarten education.

KEYWORDS

Kindergarten Science Education, STEAM Philosophy, Early Childhood Teaching, Fusion Courses

CITE THIS PAPER

Guangjian Ma, Curriculum Development of Future Kindergarten Science Education Integration Based on STEAM Concept. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 43-55. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.062108.

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