The effectiveness of teaching science using the project-based STEM approach PBL (STEM) in developing applied practical thinking skills and academic engagement among primary school students.

The aim of the research is to verify the effectiveness of teaching science using the project-based STEM approach (PBL) in developing applied practical thinking skills and academic engagement among primary school students. To achieve this goal, the researcher prepared (a guide for the teacher in the natural resources unit on the Earth’s surface) with a science book using... Project-based STEM approach (PBL) (STEM - Applied Practical Thinking Skills Test - Academic Integration Scale), and the research sample amounted to (102) male and female students from the fifth grade of primary school at Al-Amara School for Basic Education in Abu Hammad Center - Sharkia Governorate, and they were divided into two groups: The experimental group (51) studied the selected unit with a project-based STEM approach, and the control group (51) studied the same unit in the usual way. The research identified four skills for applied practical thinking, which are the skills of (observation - drawing - interpretation - predicting results - generating possibilities). The research also identified four aspects of academic integration, namely (cognitive engagement - behavioral engagement - emotional engagement - social engagement ), and by applying the pre- and post-research tools to the research sample, and after collecting and analyzing data, the effectiveness and magnitude of the large impact of the project-based STEM approach in achieving research aims.