S.T.E.A.M.ing up the classroomGavin AndrewsEmily ScheinbergMeg Winikates

S.T.E.M. into S.T.E.A.M.

ScienceTechnologyEngineeringArt & DesignMathematics

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Arts Integration

Instruction that integrates content and

skills from the arts with other core

subjects to increase knowledge

in both areas

STEAM and Arts Integration“...STEAM pedagogy integrates a broad range of

learning methods and learning ecologies from the empirical studies in the science lab, constructive critique in the design studio and creative discoveries in informal learning settings. Creativity and rigor are rewarded.”

Pamela Jennings, PhD Program Director, NSF

Art, Science & the Inquiry Process

What do you see? What evidence supports what you see? What details do you notice? What does it remind you of? What else do you notice?

Massachusetts Department of Education

Students transformed atomic coordinates into remarkably accurate three-dimensional steel sculptures (right,

Gurnon D, Voss-Andreae J, Stanley J (2013) Integrating Art and Science in Undergraduate Education. PLoS Biol 11(2): e1001491. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001491http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001491

Molecular model rendered with UCSF Chimera

Steel sculpture approximately 1 m in height).

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Undergraduates helped design and fabricate steel protein sculptures using published scientific data.

Gurnon D, Voss-Andreae J, Stanley J (2013) Integrating Art and Science in Undergraduate Education. PLoS Biol 11(2): e1001491. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001491http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001491

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Each component of the sculpture represents a snapshot of a protein as it contorts from open chain (red) to native fold (gray).

Gurnon D, Voss-Andreae J, Stanley J (2013) Integrating Art and Science in Undergraduate Education. PLoS Biol 11(2): e1001491. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001491http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001491

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Protractor Series, Frank Stella

Protractor Series, Frank Stella

Protractor Series, Frank Stella

North Carolina Standards Correlations Math: 7.G.2, 7.G.4 Visual Arts: 7.V.3.1, 7.CX.2.2, 7.CR.1.1 Student Learning Objectives Students will demonstrate their knowledge of parts of circles and

their relationships. Students will use appropriate tools to construct circles of given

dimension. Students will find the circumference and area of the circles they

construct. Students will analyze a work of art. Students will plan and create original works of art using the

concentric circles.

Constructing Circles Lesson Plan

Constructing Circles Lesson Plan

Constructing Circles Lesson Plan

Brainstorming: Subject and Specialty

What concepts do your students struggle with?

What concepts would you like to approach in a different way?

What artistic disciplines might help you explore those concepts?

What materials or processes offer easy bridges?

What concepts would you like to approach in a different way?

What subject areas might help you explore those concepts?

Science and Art Concepts by Grade

Nathalie Miebach, basketry visualizing weather data from the Gulf of Maine

Grade Science/Math Concept

Visual Art Concept

K-2 Measurement and comparison

Properties of different art supplies

3-5 Fractions Scale

6-8 Expressing facts and processes visually

Sculpture and modeling

9-12 Circles: ID radius, angles, chords, and relationships

Architecture

http://www.ted.com/talks/camille_seaman_haunting_photos_of_ice.html

One way of thinking about this process of guided close looking

Observing -- creative thinking requires paying careful attention to what we see, hear, feel, etc. Our ability to observe needs to be trained and practiced.

Imaging allows us to process our observations with our imagination, allowing us to create other possibilities.

Abstracting is an essential process in making meaning of our world and in communicating with one another. The physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) described the process as, "singling out one feature [of an object] which is considered [by the viewer] to be particularly important."

Adapted from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Thinking Tools for Innovators" lesson series

PEM’s Art & Nature Center Mission: • Highlight how nature is

fundamental to human existence, art and culture.

• Explore interplay of elements that give rise to “a sense of place”.

• Foster a deepened sense of appreciation for the environment and connections between nature and art.

How do we do that?

Interactive Interdisciplinary Intergenerational

Ongoing exhibits (natural history and culture)

Changing exhibitions (contemporary art)

Beyond Human: Artist-Animal Collaborations

Opens October 19, 2013 Features 28 artworks by 17

contemporary artists creating artwork with live animals.

Programmed Hive #7 by Hilary Berseth with honey bees

Once Upon a Time video by Corinna Schnitt with domestic animals

MaryJo McConnell & the Vogelkop Bowerbirds

Julia Oldham & Insect Dance http://www.juliaoldham.com/videos/spiders

_and_insects.htm

Photograph from the set of Churr Churr Ziz Ziz Ziz2009

Ice Painting!States of Matter &

Transitions Material Properties

(oil vs water) Friction Color Mixing Abstraction

Last Thoughts

Next steps: Technology and Innovation working group