STEAM education, which is considered one of the important curriculum topics for current education learning, can be used to cultivate critical thinking ability, thereby greatly enhancing the judgment and thinking abilities for students in this generation. For STEAM curriculum learning, literature mentioned that in STEAM curriculum, a method of cooperative learning is used for curriculum learning. However, from the feedback of curriculum learning, only the effect of curriculum learning is assessed, and no special attention is paid to whether the curriculum is implemented in the way of cooperative learning. Moreover, for the curriculum learning of building block self-propelled vehicle, there are seldom studies taking second grade students as subjects for curriculum learning. Therefore, in this study, based on the STEAM curriculum, in combination with building block self-propelled vehicle, the cooperative learning and individual learning strategies were applied to second grade students from elementary school. After the curriculum, critical thinking was used to verify and assess their critical thinking abilities, and assessment and analysis were made at the same time. The analysis results showed that there was no significant difference between the test scores of the two groups. However, in the critical thinking test, the average score of the experimental group was higher than that of the control group. The results indicate that for the critical thinking assessment of the second grade students from elementary school, the cooperative learning strategy obtained a better effect than the individual learning strategy in the STEAM curriculum of building block self-propelled vehicle. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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