Integrated STEM with Project-Based Learning Implementation to Enhance Students' Creativity

In some school, teacher-centered is commonly found in the learning process. The learning process itself is still in the form of direct transfer of knowledge from teacher to students. Actually, students will learn better if they are engaged in a meaningful learning activity. STEM and project-based learning are one of the alternative teaching strategies that engaged students in meaningful learning. This research aims to investigate the impact of project-based learning that integrates with STEM on students' creativity in the topic of “Garbage Designer Who Use Waste As Inspiration For New Products”. The target group is 4th pre-service chemistry teachers at Thaksin University, Songkhla campus, academic year 2021. The data is obtained through Creativity Product Analysis Matrix (CPAM), which was analyzed from the product of pre-service chemistry teachers created. Three creativity dimensions used in this study which are novelty, resolution and elaboration dimension. The results of this research showed that pre-service chemistry teachers' creativity is obtained as much average scores of creative dimension equal to 72 %, that pre-service chemistry teachers' creativity were categorized as good. Based on the result, STEM project-based learning give a good impact on the improvement of pre-service chemistry teachers' creative thinking. Hence, integrated STEM linked with project-based learning can be implemented as alternative learning strategy.