The Effect of STEM Integration Activities on Scientific Creativities of 5th Grade Students

The STEM education how it can be applied in the class and the potential impacts on the students has been an important research topics. The problem of this research is “How STEM integration activities in science effect the scientific creativity of fifth grade students?” The case study was used in the research. The research was applied in a secondary school in Istanbul in 2014-2015 academic year. Six STEM activities for three units were performed for twelve weeks. That data collection tools were used in research; “scientific creativity questions”, “student diaries”, “design papers”, “photographs and presentation videos”. These documents have been analyzed by “scientific creativity rubric” and “product evaluation rubric”. In this research has been found that of the effect of STEM activities on students' scientific creativity was limited in terms of individual development and that in the “reflective thinking layer” which was the highest level of creativity, it was more effective