Dig Art!

 This blog offers ideas for lessons, garden guidance and citizen science that support a school garden and Art integration.  Easy to use lesson ideas that span minutes to multiple days, brings the outside into the art classroom.  This site has printable PDFs, and access background information and learning standards connections. 


Science classroom connections:
Kindergarten: Plant Needs, Organisms' Impact on Environments
Second grade: Plant and Animal Dependence, Prairie Field Experience, What Plants Need
Third Grade:  Life in Ecosystems


Dig Art! Cultivating Creativity in the Garden- Link

PE- STEM in the Gym: article

STEM in The Gym:

This brief article has several ideas for integrating STEM  and PE with links for video resources to support these lesson ideas.  From life size battleship, designing and navigating mazes, and technology vocabulary used in classrooms, these STEM lessons integrate physical fitness, health and STEM concepts being taught in the classroom.  Interested in more?  Check out his blog site, listed on the last page of the article. 

 STEM in the Gym-Link

Putting Science Literacy on Display

Language Arts, Science and the Library 

Library

NTPS students are being graded on obtaining, evaluating, an communicating information.  For this SEP students must " read and evaluate text to obtain scientific information."  This article shares how a 2nd grade teacher and the schools reading specialist collaborated to develop a lesson that addressed this SEP, the content being addressed in the classroom as well as built on skills needed in ELA.  What a great way to build on ELA skills, library research practices and the science content being taught in the classroom.  

Putting Science Literacy on Display - Link 

PE- K-2nd grade integration lessons

PE

Looking for integrated lessons that connect NTPS science with Physical Education?  Use the link below to access kindergarten lessons that align with the scopes taught in kindergarten.


Lesson ideas- kindergarten
Lesson ideas- first grade
Lesson ideas- second grade