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STEM Programme Package

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To be future-ready, our young need to be able to think critically, assess options and make sound decisions. They should have a desire to learn, explore and be prepared to think out of the box.”
(Nurturing our Young for the Future, Competencies for the 21st Century, MOE, 2010)
(The Curriculum Framework for Kindergartens in Singapore.)

Jumper the Dolphin STEM Programme (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) 

The STEM package strives to harness children’s natural curiosity and guide them, through fun-filled activities, to discover and make meaning of what happens around them and understand how things work.

1. To ask questions, make predictions, carry out simple investigations, gather data, make an inference.

2. To apply the knowledge gained and come up with creative ideas to solve a problem.

3. To acquire learning dispositions like perseverance, appreciation, inventiveness and reflectiveness.

Design component for the K2 Children.

SCHOOL PACKAGE $1,600 (4 MODULES)

Level 1 (K1) - 4 Modules with 3 lessons each

Level 2 (K2) - 4 Modules with 4 lessons each

One module per term, each module includes:

Teacher’s Guide (both levels)

Materials and apparatus (One set per level per module)

A story book for every module

Teachers’ Training (One session per module)

Workbook for student (to be purchased separately): 

1 book per module: $3 or $12 per year

 

 Topics  

The Magic of Magnet Mag                     Magnet Max

The explorations in this module help children make sense of what magnets can do and through purposeful play, discover what some of their properties are.

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The Wonders of Electricity

Where does electricity come from? What are the uses of electricity? Is electricity harmful? The children will discover the answers to these baffling questions.

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The Mystery of Light and Shadows

Why do our shadows follow us wherever we go? How many shadows do we have? Do shadows only appear at night? How are shadows formed? These are some of the intriguing questions we hope to explore with the children.

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 Things That Float and Things That Sink

 Ever wonder why a grain of sand will sink in the sea, yet a huge ocean liner can stay afloat? The children will explore why some things float and some do not.

 

The resources for each module:

1) Background content on the relevant Science concepts

2) Lesson Overview for the whole module.

3) Detailed Lesson plans

4) Worksheets to reinforce what they have learnt

5) An Optional Engineering Design component for the K2 children 

6) Materials and apparatus for the experiments

7) Resources for the Learning Centres

 

For N2 My Five Senses $300 whole module.

Special Promotion of $200 for those who take the component for the Level 1 & 2 (K1 & K2) Children package only.

"Observation skills are essential life skills that should be developed in young children in their earliest years.  Observation is not just “seeing”, it connotes using all our 5 senses as well as instruments that can go beyond the reach of our senses, to help us gather information and make sense of the world we live in. This set of inquiry lessons aim to help children discover the importance of their 5 senses in making observations. "

Skill 

  • see
  • hear
  • smell
  • touch
  • taste

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 Miss Chiang Wai Leng, who holds a Master Degree in Educational Management, is a retired Principal of a Primary School with 44 years of experience, She co-authored a book on “Assessing Learning in Primary Science” for the Singapore Examination and Assessment Board and the Curriculum Planning Development Division of the Ministry of Education (2009 – 2010). She has also designed Primary School Science Kits in collaboration with the Singapore Science Centre.

In addition, Miss Chiang has experience as a Sparks Assessor and an ECDA Trainer for Pre-School teachers. She is attuned to the needs of pre-school teachers and is confident that these resources will help to equip them with the skills to be effective educators.

 

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