Bilingual Instruction Model for a STEAM Course: A Preliminary Study

Abstract

This study proposes a natural science course for elementary school students in Taiwan that combines the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) and CLIL (content and language integrated learning) models. The course’s lesson plan explains the teaching content and procedures for teachers who are interested in using English to teach STEAM-based natural science courses. Compared with the lesson plans applied in traditional natural science and English classes, the lesson plan of this STEAM–CLIL natural science course incorporates problem-based integrated learning and may be used to train teachers to teach natural sciences and to develop STEAM and bilingual teaching materials.