STEM Quest: Online STEM professional learning for early years educators

STEM Quest is a collection of online resources that have been developed to guide and support early years educators design STEM learning.

STEM Quest supports the improvement of STEM teaching and learning for all young children, offering media rich resources intentionally designed for collaborative viewing.

STEM Quest invites you to view, consider and learn from academics, teachers and leaders involved in co-designed STEM research projects here in South Australia.

We acknowledge and thank the SA educators and academics who have been willing to share their STEM research, and associated learning.

The introductory video provides an overview of the collection and explains the structure and content of the resources and courses available on STEM Quest.

Department for Education staff will need register and access each STEM Quest course via Plink. Non-departmental participants will login directly to this Moodle.

STEM Quest, a video introduction

STEM Papers 

	The STEM Play paper shares the research findings from Department early childhood sites across the state.  The paper: Describes: The importance of the environment to support STEM play-based pedagogies. Highlights: The role of the educator in designing STEM learning. Invites: Educators to critically reflect on the way they document STEM learning.
	The Department's STEM Strategy includes the performance measures to be achieved by 2020. The strategy: Outlines: The purpose and strategic developments for STEM education Highlights: The challenges and objectives for providing high quality STEM learning for all children and students Invites: Educators to embrace the three key areas of action for STEM teaching and learning

STEM in the Early Years: Growing a generation of STEM capable learners