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- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects

Rick Hall, Director of Programmes, Ignite!www.ignitefutures.org.ukrick@ignitefutures.org.uk

- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects

Children should be listened to because they sometimes have better ideas than adults.

That is because the children’s brains are new and not old.- Markus, aged 6

- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects

The world of 2020,and the skills these young people will need

- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjectsWhat did you learn about

STEM in your lesson today?

What did you learn through STEM today?

Speculation and imagination?

Research, improvisation and investigation?

Collaboration, creative problem solving?

Resourcefulness, seeing/making connections?

Rehearsal, trial and error, risk taking?

- creative thinking capacities

The characteristics of creative thinkers

Resilience

Resourcefulness

Relationships

Reflection

Risk-taking

- promoting STEM as creative subjects

Ignition* - six integrated programmes to promote creativity

in learning of STEMCome Alive with Science

Invent!

STEM Fluency Labs

Lab_13

Creative Sparks

Sci-art fusionswww.ignitefutures.org.uk/ignition

- promoting STEM as creative subjects

www.ignitefutures.org.uk/ignition

Cosmos

- a participatory performance devised and designed by Dragon Breath Theatre Company to reveal the wonders of the universe to very small children

Little Egg

– a stop frame animation story about ecology and bio-diversity

- promoting STEM as creative subjects

Lab_13 – a pottering space

Managed by young people for young people

Using tools, driven by curiosity

Scientist/inventor in residence

6 across the UK EM region by 2011

- promoting STEM as creative subjects

Creativity in STEM – what gets in the way?

Risk aversion?

Time, space, resources?

Results pressure?

Confidence?

- a creative STEM curriculum, promoting STEM as creative subjects

Rick Hall, Director of Programmes, Ignite!rick@ignitefutures.org.uk

www.ignitefutures.org.uk/ignition