An educational program for gifted students should be arranged to integrate various fields of education - creativity, artistry and sociality. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of teaching Scratch programming based on STEAM education and to analyze the changes in students'' logical thinking ability.
Scratch programming enables us to produce a program by building command blocks and can be applied to a wide variety of subjects. It also can be used to produce a program creatively by using integrated multimedia functions. Various multimedia features can be applied to the Scratch program with Picoboard. External data can be input through the slider, light, button and sound sensor in Picoboard.
Information Science Education as a subject of an integrated education, based on STEAM education, can enhance computational thinking and logical thinking ability by programming. As it has effects on the students'' cognitive development and consistently stimulates the intelligence system, it can be said that programming procedure can develop logical thinking skills.
In this study, the newly developed Scratch programming model has been applied to the advanced information science class for elementary school students in the Science Education Institute for the Gifted, Andong National University. The gifted students designed a problem solving process and produced a scratch game using Picoboard in their classes. Many scientific theories such as Uniformly Accelerated Motion, Free Fall, Law of Action and Reaction, Tide and Ebb & Flow, Torque and Equilibrium were applied to producing games.
This paper examined the influence of teaching Scratch programming based on STEAM education and to analyze the changes in students'' logical thinking ability. The result of the study showed the positive enhancement in their logical thinking ability and its 5 subordinate concepts except combination logic. Among 6 subordinate concepts(systematization, proportionality, probability, control variables, combinational logic, propositional logic), systematization and propositional logic were shown to be effective at enhancing the students'' logical thinking ability.
According to student-satisfaction survey on STEAM education based on Scratch programming, it was shown that students were interested in applying Scratch programming(grade:4.38), and felt it creative(4.25). Thus, it can be said that they were highly satisfied with this study, though the questions on the difficulty and the applicability of the program were given a lower grade of 3.88 and 3.63 respectively. In addition, some students are of the opinion that Scratch programming is very interesting and they want to deepen their knowledge in sorting algorithm and search programs.
It is concluded that STEAM education using Scratch programming helps to enhance students'' logical thinking ability. On further study it is necessary to confirm whether STEAM education is effective with average students and how it affects their creative problem-solving ability.