스크래치 프로그램을 활용한 초등학교 STEAM 프로그램 개발 및 적용

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to provide a desirable case of STEAM education utilizing Scratch program for elementary school students. The elementary school students learned with the integrated approach through Scratch programming based on STEAM integrated education, and through production process they had the opportunity for application and expression in diverse forms. The results of this research are as follows. First, as the procedural model to develop the elementary school STEAM program utilizing the Scratch program, the five stages: preparation, development, verification, practice, and improvement, were presented. The preparation stage was composed of requirement analysis, the selection of learning objective, and curriculum analysis, and as the development stage, both the development of learning materials and the development of teaching materials were presented. In the verification stage, the verification of validity by experts was conducted, and in the practice stage, the developed program was applied to the students in the educational field, and in the improvement stage, based on the evaluations received from learners and teachers, it was revised and supplemented. Second, the STEAM program was developed into the program summary map, the textbook for students, teachers’ manual and multimedia teaching materials, etc., and after the validity was secured through experts’ verification, it was revised and supplemented and applied to actual classes. Third, the results of the learners’ evaluation of the developed STEAM program showed that the degree of satisfaction with the program was high with the average score of the entire questions being 4.03 on a five-point scale. As the teachers also evaluated the developed STEAM program as very effective, the opinions of learners and teachers were collected and the program was finally improved and completed.