Does Make Science Make Sense?
Michal Raz Bahat, Oren Eckstien · 2022
Over the last two years we have been developing a novel approach, placing science education at the center of a maker technological environment: Make Science. In order to refine our Make Science approach, we have implemented a design-based research method working mostly with elementary and middle school students, in which we repeat the process of developing and applying our educational activities. At the end of the process, we categorized our approach into 5 operating pedagogical principles: introduce science through a multidisciplinary perspective; introduce the aspects of science from basic principles to current scientific research; focus on the "educational process" as the center of learning; emphasize the acquisition of unique learning skills; engage students with "flow" (optimal learning experience). In our paper, we will elaborate in-depth on these principles while referring to a few case studies which took place within our Make Science environment.