STEM Curriculum for Hong Kong

For junior secondary students

This note is for jotting ideas about how to design a curriculum for STEM education on secondary school for Hong Kong

STEM curriculum IOT
Created on 2017-11-17 Last Modified 2018-08-30

Model

Curriculum design

  • first year

    • learning
    • tasks / experiment on suitable topics

  • second year

    • learning
    • tasks / experiment on suitable topics
    • maybe simple project

  • third year

    • learning (1st term)
    • tasks / experiment on suitable topics
    • final project (2nd term)

Content

Which topic should be included in the curriculum for students whose age are 12 - 16?

Science

  • Concept of Experiments
  • fair test

  • General Science Topics that already in school curriculum, e.g.

    • DNA
    • Reaction
    • Ray diagram
    • etc

Technology

  • Basic knowledge on Raspberry Pi (each student deserves 1 rpi)
  • Basic knowledge on input and output
  • Basic programming (Python and Linux environment)
  • Software Design

Enginering

  • Basic knowledge on electricity and circuit
  • Basic sensors or electronic chip like resistant, capacitor, LED, LDR etc…
  • Basic mechanics including motors, joint, gear etc …
  • Product Design
  • 3D Printing and laser cut
  • Drawing (aided with software)

Math

  • Ideas (refer to the book named “Computer science distill”)
  • Big O notation => counting time and counting memory
  • Defining Project Objectives (including scale analysis, technical requirement)
  • Basic Knowledge on statistic
  • Counting
  • Probability
  • Logic (True False Table, how to do addition by using logic operator)
  • Basic knowledge on ratio, rate, area and volume
  • Mathematic Modelling

Others

  • Creativity
  • Basic knowledge on production cost and profit, especially for mass production.
  • Project Management (Division of Labor, man Day, cost, profit, presentation, sale strategy)

Assessment

  • Exam or project?

Ideas

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