Alternative energy in primary school: A teacher’s idea to present daily life problems through SFH (STEM from home)

Pupils are expected to earn an understanding of how to produce alternative energies in the future because energy from fossil fuels is believed run out someday. The research aimed to break the assumption that teaching alternative energy content with the STEM approach must be a face-to-face meeting. The content could be delivered from home by using virtual meetings. It is called SFH (STEM from Home). Teacher’s idea to present alternative energy through SFH was showed in a lesson plan. The research was Research and Development model that applied some steps such as need assessment, product development, field trial, and product revision. Dream power plant was a project to find out the source of electricity which was abundant, sustainable, and easily found in the surroundings. The implementation of project inspired pupils to create many product designs which was generated alternative energies. Their ideas were diverse and unstoppable, one of them was creating a prototype that converted heat produced from the friction of wheels and road into electricity. The electricity was used as a fuel of the car. The limited mobilization access in pandemic condition, complicated pupils to show up engineering design process (EDP) and to generate the dream power plant. Generally, SFH equipped pupils with fundamental understandings of alternative energy and the learning activities both hands-on and mind-on activities.