In the project, sustainability citizenship issues were integrated into the STEM education provided. In STEM activities designed by students, it consists of applications related to creating their own solutions to environmental problems.
In the schools participating in the project, it consists of applications for students to create awareness by designing solutions to daily life problems and to produce their own solutions to environmental problems.
21. the requirements of the century have led countries to change their policies in areas such as science, technology, politics, economics and education. Countries now need qualified individuals who produce, question, and can look at events from different windows. It is very important for these individuals to develop different educational approaches and integrate them into the country system. As a matter of fact, the STEM approach is one of the last examples of this around the world (Karakaya, Avgin and Yilmaz, 2018A).
In other words, STEM, science technology engineering and math fields, with a focus on engineering design knowledge and skills, students interdisciplinary collaboration, communication to be open, to have ethical values, research, breeding and training is an approach to equipping their creativity by using their problem solving skills (Commandments and Korkmaz, 2016; Karakaya and others, 2018a).
The aim of this study is to raise awareness of the causes of environmental pollution by STEM activities of the students participating in the project. With this education, it is necessary to ensure that students both produce solutions to problems and to ensure that students regulate their lifestyle in order to reduce these problems in daily life.