Promoter – Happy Code
Action – Creative Learning with STEM PLAY
Description – STEM PLAY is an innovative programming learning platform, based on an approach to the UN SDGs, understanding the basic concepts of computational thinking and developing creativity.
More than a platform, STEM PLAY is the perfect combination of online and offline activities, and a tool for consolidating learning. It works together with a pedagogical curriculum adapted to 1st cycle students, covering several pedagogical benefits:
1. Creative Learning: Promotes the development of students’ creativity;
2. Gamification: Gamified learning process;
3. Online Access: Can be accessed on mobile phones, tablets and the web;
4. Multi-literacy: Digital Literacy, Financial Literacy, Mathematical Literacy;
5. Builder: the platform has a builder of stages and games that develop students’ creative skills.
The program is developed based on Missions: the Environment Mission, the Marine Life Mission, the Space Mission, the Smart Cities Mission. In each one, students learn new programming skills, through a simplified visual language adapted to the younger ones.
STEM PLAY is used in innovative pedagogical projects within schools. Teachers have training and fully prepared classes at disposal, facilitating the implementation in a classroom context.
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