Abstract:

The need for qualified people has led to the changes in the education policies of the countries. Though developments have accelerated in all areas in the 21st century, especially the developments in science, mathematics, technology and engineering have been effective in all areas of life and play an important role in solving the most urgent problems of mankind. At this point, in the aesthetic context, art also contributes to all of these works. This study aims to study the views of the STEAM (Fen-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics-Art) primary school 3rd grade students in the fields of STEAM. The study included the quality size of a study used by the karma method. The research work group is made up of third-class students who are studying at the Ataturk Primary School of Afyonkarahisar Çobanlar in the 2016-2017 educational year. The research is processed with STEAM applications in the framework of the unit "Travel to the World of Animals" in the field of learning "Animals and Life" in the course of Science, which is processed with the students of the working group in order to improve the awareness of STEAM applications of primary school 3th grade students. The application process continued for seven weeks, three hours a week. Seven weeks later, face-to-face conversations were conducted using a semi-configured conversation form with two students from each level to be a girl and a boy from the top, middle and lower-level students. The discussions were concluded that the disciplines of science, technology, mathematics and engineering were interrelated and that after the application of STEAM they knew that art was necessary in both these disciplines and in everyday life.

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