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- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects
Rick Hall, Director of Programmes, [email protected]
- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects
Children should be listened to because they sometimes have better ideas than adults.
That is because the children’s brains are new and not old.- Markus, aged 6
- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects
The world of 2020,and the skills these young people will need
- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjectsWhat did you learn about
STEM in your lesson today?
What did you learn through STEM today?
Speculation and imagination?
Research, improvisation and investigation?
Collaboration, creative problem solving?
Resourcefulness, seeing/making connections?
Rehearsal, trial and error, risk taking?
- creative thinking capacities
The characteristics of creative thinkers
Resilience
Resourcefulness
Relationships
Reflection
Risk-taking
- promoting STEM as creative subjects
Ignition* - six integrated programmes to promote creativity
in learning of STEMCome Alive with Science
Invent!
STEM Fluency Labs
Lab_13
Creative Sparks
Sci-art fusionswww.ignitefutures.org.uk/ignition
- promoting STEM as creative subjects
www.ignitefutures.org.uk/ignition
Cosmos
- a participatory performance devised and designed by Dragon Breath Theatre Company to reveal the wonders of the universe to very small children
Little Egg
– a stop frame animation story about ecology and bio-diversity
- promoting STEM as creative subjects
Lab_13 – a pottering space
Managed by young people for young people
Using tools, driven by curiosity
Scientist/inventor in residence
6 across the UK EM region by 2011
- promoting STEM as creative subjects
Creativity in STEM – what gets in the way?
Risk aversion?
Time, space, resources?
Results pressure?
Confidence?
- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects
Rick Hall, Director of Programmes, [email protected]
www.ignitefutures.org.uk/ignition