Engaging students in STEM education:
Two groups of 20 students and two teachers agreed to participate in the study. The
researchers collected data during students’ work using videorecording and post-project
interviews. In this paper, we analyze data from one group working on the following challenge:
Build a shelter for your stuffed animal. The shelter must protect the animal from rain and high
winds. Students worked in small groups of 2-3, with little teacher guidance. Twelve videosegments were first analyzed on the presence of spatial reasoning skills; then assigning initial
codes from each video-segment, to finally, investigating common aspects across all
segments.
Freiman, V., Fellus, O., Lurette, O., (2022). Kindergarten students solving engineering challenges in a STEM lab: Manifestations of spatial reasoning skills. In J. Bobis & C. Preston (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International STEM in Education Conference (STEM 2022), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, University of Sydney.