Energy umbrella to enhance interest in STEM Education

Abstract

As technology evolves and advances, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and maths) education becomes increasingly essential. By including it comprehensively in the classroom, it provides opportunities to prepare the new generations to face important challenges. It requires the use of innovative and alternative methods of teaching and learning, such as projects, laboratory practices and technological tools. And it allows the development of skills such as analysis, documentation and problem solving, supporting them to deal with situations in their daily lives. This chapter will present a STEAM project developed in the 4th ESO physics class that consists of the construction of an energy umbrella that would help increase the percentage of electricity genera-ted in a sustainable way and provide electricity savings, since it would allow energy self-sufficiency; getting closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It has been developed in English, which has allowed students to develop the linguistic competence of a second language, professional skills, greater concentration and memory.