[2024 Children’s Educational Toys Recommendation] How to start learning STEAM with educational toys?
Recommended STEM educational toys in Hong Kong in 2024
This year, the Education Bureau focuses on proposing STEAM education and science curriculum positions. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) is a comprehensive cross-field learning method that emphasizes the combination of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. To develop children's creativity, problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
Toys can be a fun and educational starting point in learning STEAM.
How to inspire children’s learning interest and ability in STEAM through toys
1. Choose suitable STEAM toys
Choosing suitable STEAM toys is the first step to inspire children to learn STEAM.
These toys are often interactive, educational, and creative and develop children's observation skills, problem-solving skills, and hand-eye coordination. For example, construction kits, robot toys, science experiment sets, and electronic programming toys are all great options.
These toys allow children to learn through play and develop their creativity and interest in science and technology.
Science Toys Series
Integrate STEM natural science fields into toys, such as children's microscopes and children's telescopes, with creative design and implementation.
2. Use imagination and creativity
Toys stimulate children's imagination and creativity.
For example, construction kits allow children to create different shapes and structures through assembly and disassembly, developing their spatial imagination and problem-solving skills. Robot toys allow children to learn programming and design, and realize various functions by creating their own robots.
These activities encourage children to think about how different elements can be combined and stimulate their creative thinking.
Technology toys series
Combining programming Coding/Programming and DIY self-assembled building blocks to construct robot toys and STEM robot toys, combined with game apps to play games on iOS, Android tablets or mobile phones, so that children can learn basic programming technology (Technology) and engineering while playing games (Engineering) concept.
3. Develop problem-solving skills
The core of STEAM learning is to cultivate children's problem-solving abilities.
Through toys, children can experience the process of solving problems in actual operations. For example, science experiment sets allow children to conduct various experiments, observe and analyze results, and develop their scientific thinking and analytical skills.
Electronic programming toys allow children to control the movements of toys by writing codes, and learn logical thinking and problem-solving methods.
These activities can inspire children to think proactively and find solutions.
Engineering toys series
Children's building block toys that allow children to develop their creativity and artistic space. Children can build blocks or blocks of different shapes and appearances by themselves, so that children can develop observation skills, concentration skills, artistic creative thinking (Art & Creativity), and engineering (Engineering). STEM knowledge.
4. Experience the fun of cross-field learning
STEAM learning emphasizes cross-field integration, allowing children to obtain comprehensive knowledge from different subjects.
Toys can provide this experience for children. Through construction kits, children can learn the principles of engineering and science simultaneously; through robotic toys, children can learn programming and technology applications; through art and design toys, children can develop creative thinking and beauty.
Such cross-field learning experiences can stimulate children's interest in different fields and develop their comprehensive thinking skills.
Math toys series
Children use three-dimensional children's mathematics educational toys such as building block toys, mathematical educational toys, and blocks of different shapes to train their brain's ability to think, develop, and solve problems, so that children can understand the concepts of Mathematics and develop artistic and creative thinking. (Art & Creativity) basics.
Art toys series
Children can develop their own creativity and practice unconstrained ideas through STEM toys. It not only cultivates children's hand muscles, trains collage and assembly, but also cultivates children's artistic cells.
Summarize
Learning STEAM from toys can expose children to this field in an easy and fun way.
Choosing suitable STEAM toys can stimulate children's imagination and creativity, cultivate their problem-solving abilities, and also allow them to experience the fun of cross-field learning. Through toys, children can learn through games, develop their interest and abilities in the STEAM field, and lay a solid foundation for future learning and career development.
Therefore, letting children learn STEAM from toys is a valuable and meaningful choice.
Further reading
【2022】How to choose STEM toys? 5 major indicators for buying fun STEM toys in Hong Kong
What is Montessori teaching method?
Self-learning tools during the epidemic-the latest STEM toys promotion in 2022
【STEM Education】What is STEM? New forces in Hong Kong’s education sector
about the author
STEAM Educational Toy Research Institute at
Kidrise STEM Hong Kong Educational Toys
We are committed to being a part of promoting the development of STEM education in Hong Kong, so that STEM is no longer just a hobby, but a profession that can bring the integration of play and learning into daily life.
Children can also use this to strengthen their competitiveness and development potential in the future society, and create a diverse and beautiful society together.
Let more children be inspired by playing, and bring more possibilities and outlets for the future. Children's future does not have to be determined only by academic success.
Children can also use this to strengthen their competitiveness and development potential in the future society, and create a diverse and beautiful society together.
Let more children be inspired by playing, and bring more possibilities and outlets for the future. Children's future does not have to be determined only by academic success.
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