“Sustainable City”: A Steam Project Using Robotics to Bring the City of the Future to Primary Education Students

Sustainability

Francisco Ruiz Vicente¹  Alberto Zapatera Llinares²  Nicolás Montés Sánchez³ 

[1] Colegio de Fomento Aitana, Ctra, Murcia-Alicante, km 69, CP 03320 Elche-Torrellano, Alicante, Spain;Department of Educational Sciencies, University CEU Cardenal Herrera, C/Carmelitas 1, CP 03203 Elche, Alicante, Spain;Department of Mathematics, Physics and Technological Sciences, University CEU Cardenal Herrera, C/San Bartolomé 55, CP 46115 Alfara del Patriarca, Valencia, Spain;

关键词: climate change;    sustainable city;    STEAM project;    educational robotics;    active methodologies;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su12229696

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article presents a STEAM project, “Sustainable City”, based on educational robotics whose objective is to bring the problems of climate change closer to primary school students. The participants were 30 students (aged 10–11) from 5th year of Primary Education and the project consisted of 14 sessions in which different active methodologies such as project-based learning, collaborative learning and the flipped classroom were carried out. A pre-test and a post-test were carried out and the results were better in the post-test, which indicates that the students improved their skills and increased their motivation. As a conclusion, this STEAM project, which is adapted to the Spanish LOMCE curriculum, can be a reference for other teachers to bring their students closer to the problem of environmental change through educational robotics and the use of active methodologies.

【 授权许可】

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