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

STEM and/or Maker Space Read Aloud ideas

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Looking for some great STEM books to add to your library collection?  Check out the link below for some titles that help encourage students to make meaningful connections with text and inspire them to play, explore, invent and create.

·     STEM and/ or Maker Space Read Aloud Titles- Link 

PE- Teaming STEM With Physical Education

This one page article discusses how students  can use hurdles and workouts to build on STEM concepts.  This brief read talks about the benefit seen in one schools classroom after implementing STEM  concepts using simple machines. 






Teaming STEM with Physical Education- Link

Free Scientist career cards

This FREE resource features over 215 different scientist and engineer career opportunity cards.  These colorful cards are printed on heavy cardstock making them great resources for student regardless of their age.  Interested in handing them out to students, or interested in their additional cards, order a second set. Have a great way to share these cards with students?  Post your ideas in the comment section below.     

FREE Scientist & Engineer cards- Link

Why Arts Are Essential in a STEM Education

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This 2016 article discusses the connections between art and STEM, and how creativity might be the key to connecting with students who struggle with math, science or technology.  Included in this link are additionals art integration articles such as; Arts as Text: Bridging Literacy and the Arts


Why Arts Are Essential in STEM Education- Link

Putting Science Literacy on Display

Language Arts, Science and the Library 

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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