Dance and Robots: Designing a Robotics-Enhanced Project for Dance-Based STEAM Education Using ENGINO

摘要

The emerging domain of robotics provides a creative tool for engaging young children with the engineering and artistic components of STEAM. Educational activities based on dance can captivate student interest in arts while exploring foundational technological ideas. The paper describes vignettes of dance-based activities utilizing the ENGINO E30 kit. The objective of this work is to explore ways to use a robotic kit to create a science-art integrative STEAM project, named DancENG. The DancENG project has been designed by creatively integrating dance, music, engineering, and math concepts, aiming to cultivate aesthetic sensitivity in parallel with problem-solving and engineering-thinking skills of elementary school students. It has been implemented to 20 5th graders of a Greek elementary school to indicate the practical use of the framework.