STEMS: Teaching STEM Concepts Through Sports in Underprivileged Schools

Imparting STEM Education through sports for the underprivileged schools in Tamil Nadu

Objective

• The proposal aims to develop a phased approach due to multidisciplinary complexity involved as STEM pedagogy requires fundamental shifts in setting up classroom/school environment and teaching, which all teachers might not understand, Awareness creation of the roles of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in modern society through sport education, Fundamental concept understanding in each STEM area through illustrations on the field aligned with the identified classes' curriculum, A project-based approach to build a medium-level application of concepts learnt in areas such as data analytics and IoT through hands-on sports projects

Description

• This proposal attempts to develop STEM education initiatives through sports programs to create novel application-oriented STEM learning in rural schools. Combining STEM education and sports (STEM-S) has great potential to bring deeper learning to rural schools enabling educational equality.

Impact

• Combining STEM education and sports (STEM-S) has great potential to bring deeper learning to rural schools enabling educational equality. Past records from many developed countries that have implemented programs for students from 8th std onwards using baseball, hockey, and soccer to teach concepts about ecosystems, programming, design thinking and geometry, reported that 89% of students agreed it was easier to learn these concepts through sports taught by coaches on the field. The project expect to get the same results from the India as well as the learning is more fun-oriented, intuitive and involved.