STEM - Ideation Slap Down

STEM - Ideation Slap Down

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Lesson summary

Students take part in an interactive STEM ideation activity. The lesson begins with a STEM ‘slap down’ where the students create bright ideas and share them with each other using a dynamic creative process. Students will then draw and label a design based on one of the ideas developed during the lesson. This lesson will inspire collaborative thinking and help students develop skills in STEM ideation.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand ideation processes
  • develop skills in creativity and problem-solving
  • communicate their ideas effectively
  • demonstrate support for each other through ideation activities.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • generate creative ideas
  • apply a STEM lens to design projects
  • participate collaboratively in a group activity
  • take an idea and develop it further.

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21st Century Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • adaptability
  • collaboration
  • initiative
  • leadership
  • enterprise.

Curriculum Mapping

Australian curriculum content descriptions (v9): 

Years 3 & 4 Design and Technologies:

  • generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools (AC9TDE4P02)

Syllabus outcomes: ST2-13MW

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 achievement standards: 

Students describe how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of people, including sustainability. Students select design ideas against design criteria. They communicate design ideas using models and drawings including annotations and symbols.

Unit of work: STEM Challenges — Primary

Time required: 65 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low to medium. Teachers will be required to lead and facilitate the STEM slap down at the start of the lesson. As the session progresses students take the lead and the teaching role extends to a collaborative facilitator to assist the students in the STEM Ideas Lab

Resources Required

  • butcher’s paper (optional)
  • pencils
  • sticky notes or recycled paper notes – eight per student
  • Student Worksheet (STEM Ideas Lab Worksheet) – one per student
  • timer or stopwatch

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