From Bananas to Chips: A STEM Journey to Explore Food Processing Concept
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Banana chips become a famous snack and provide an effetely sustainable solution to promote community environmental and economic sustainability. This study aims to explore the bananas transformation into banana chips as a snack based on the STEM education. The study has designed regarding Sutaphan and Yuenyong (2019) context-based STEM education learning approach that providing 7 stages such (1) Identification of social issues, (2) Identification of potential solutions, (3) Need for knowledge, (4) Decision-making, (5) Development of prototype or product, (6) Test and evaluation of the solution, and (7) Socialization and completion decision stage. This study reveals critical thinking skill, creativity skill, and sustainability in food practices for daily life, particularly in life science subject. It also shows the significant of incorporation STEM education into real world projects for scientific practices in the future career and advanced technology. Thus, it is significant for teachers to promote STEM education in their classroom activities.
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