This contribution presents new approaches to teaching science subjects that lead to their interconnection. These modern trends allow for the organic integration of previously often isolated subjects (physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology) and thus mutually enrich the knowledge, skills and competences of students with current knowledge and technologies from the world of science as a whole. From this perspective, it is essential that pre-service teachers be introduced to these approaches as part of their university training. The University of Ostrava offers its students workshops focused on STEM education. However, within this whole, it is possible to emphasize an area that we want to pay more attention to at any time. In our case, it was physics. Every year we come up with a new topic that integrates individual scientific and technical disciplines. The last topic was Shapes and Patterns, within this topic we focused on the inner world of materials in physics. Using this physical phenomenon, we showed students the relationships between the structure and properties of materials from the perspective of chemistry, physics, mathematics and technology. In the paper, we describe how, in accordance with the STEM approach and modern technologies, including work with generative AI, we designed physics assignments in the context of interdisciplinary Science topics. We present a range of possibilities and a choice of approaches to creating physics assignments against the background of the use of an innovative STEM approach. We show how this approach supports creativity, breaks down imaginary barriers between individual science disciplines and allows us to look at physics issues from different angles. We show how the STEM approach develops and deepens knowledge from the Science disciplines at the same time. We also draw attention to the pitfalls of these new trends, especially in the practical use of information technologies (working with generative AI) used in science teaching. We document the sharing of these experiences with university students, future teachers of science subjects, especially physics.

Keywords: Teaching physics, STEM, Science, tasks, integrated teaching, AI.