Developing the lesson plan of the manufacturing fish drying STEM Education

Abstract

The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of the designing of the manufacturing fish drying. The STEM education learning activity was developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [17] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from context of Indonesian favourite dry fish. Then, the issue of manufacturing the drying fish will be raised in order to motivate students to practice knowledge for designing the fish dryers and process of fish drying. Through their designing, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. These knowledge include nutrients in dry fish, fish species, measuring sizes of fish, energy sources, chemistry in preparing fish for drying, capitals analysis, marketing functions (e.g. buying and selling, pricing, grading, weighing, storage, transportation, financing and market information). And, students could learn to practice not only STEM knowledge and skills but also entrepreneurship education. This paper may have implications for designing STEM education learning activities.