Author: SamWinchester
Bio: STEM-education is the creation of conditions for the balanced harmonious formation of science-oriented education on the basis of modernization of mathematical-natural and humanitarian profiles of education.

STEM is a wide range of opportunities for professional development, providing students with access to technology. Today, as the world crosses computer networks, children create, share and use digital content on a large scale. They run websites, make movies on their phones, create their own games.

STEM-technologies require from students great abilities for critical thinking, the ability to work as a team and independently. In our school, in the study of many disciplines and physics, the first steps of implementing the STEM system have been taken, both in class and in extracurricular activities - interactive lessons, competitions of various levels, the activities of the Small Academy of Sciences STEM-education puts before teachers the task of integrating subjects, ensuring a close relationship of related sciences in the learning process. Integrated classes encourage the understanding and search for causal relationships, the development of logic, thinking, communication skills.
One of the main tasks that a teacher must solve is the organization and support of purposeful cognitive activity of students, the formation of their skills and abilities to carry out research. The main goal of scientific-oriented education of schoolchildren is to create a system of education based on a competency-based approach, which is focused on self-realization of the young scientist's personality. In physics lessons, students are not passive observers,
and - are seekers, creators of the new, so they better remember what is "discovered" by themselves. Using elements of STEM-technology, the teacher creates opportunities for children that allow them to be more active, interested in their own education. Working in a modern school, the teacher must clearly understand that STEM education combines interdisciplinary and project approaches, which are based on the integration of natural sciences into technology, engineering and mathematics. The study material should be based on topics that combine several subjects, the material of which is closely related to each other and have practical application.