Designing Educational Content on Entropy with STEM Approach and Concept Map

Entropy gives meaning to energy, but they have always created misconceptions among students, or that learners who had difficulty. Therefore, designing educational content to better learn the concept of entropy and its applications based on the STEM approach and concept map will be an important step for students to learn and acquire skills in the long run. The method of the present study is descriptive-analytical which has been done using the content analysis technique. The statistical sample used is a collection of books, articles, journals, and dissertations related to entropy that were selected and analyzed until the theoretical saturation of the data. By reviewing the literature on how to design entropy educational content, with the guidance of experts in this field, during several round-trip stages of axial coding, topics were determined and then based on the topics assigned, goals for each subject in the content goal table was written. In the present project, learners can perform experiments, practical activities, and knowledge building with new teaching methods and approaches. The STEM approach and concept map are two of the new teaching methods and approaches. Their use in teaching and designing an educational content helps students learn in a long-term and meaningful way, and also leads to exploration and skills acquisition in learners.