As an interdisciplinary education, STEM education has increasingly become the focus of the current knowledge economy society. This study proposes a four-tier design-based cross-discipline STEM theoretical framework that encompasses "subject content level, interdisciplinary conceptual level, instructional design level, and learning objective level". The framework emphasizes that learners are based on the real topic of social issues, conducting field study to transform crosscutting concepts, using "design" to iteratively generate products that so...