Book K - 5: STEAM Kids: 50+ Science / Technology / Engineering / Art / Math Hands-On Projects for Kids
Article Music Merger Drexel program blends music and science
Article Why Scientific Innovation Needs the Arts explains the connection between science on the arts
NPR Where Science Meets Art Short podcasts on Science and Art. Many of these titles will allow for student reflection and questions as they be in to see how the Arts and Science can be integrated.
OER Commons There are some powerful lessons that bring the arts into the classroom.
Book Science Arts: Discovering Science Through Art Experiences (K - 5) unique approach to science education! This book is jammed full of one-page "art experiments." The key is to use art projects to learn some science principles. Among many of the ideas to learn are dissolving, symmetry, reflecting light, gravity and friction.
This is Not a Math Book. Inside the pages, kids are invited to draw and explore cool and creative mathematical principles. They draw things in perspective, fool around with illusions and puzzles, create mesmerizing spirals and tessellations. There is plenty of blank paper and graph paper in the back for kids to experiment on their own. I highly recommend this book!
Amazing Math Projects You Can Build Yourself. If you want to include engineering into your math art mix, this is the book for you. I love the 3D building shapes, especially the geodesic dome. There are templates to explore cool topology projects. The text also includes a lot of information about the mathematical concepts in everyday life to ensure kids never look at snowflakes, bridges or patterns the same way again.
Math Arts: Exploring Math Through Art for 3 to 6 Year Olds by MaryAnn Kohl. Most of the math art activity books on this list are aimed at kids in the upper elementary grades. But Kohl’s book lets you start early. Explore patterns, make numbers, play with shapes and prepare your kids for a lifetime appreciation of the STEAM subjects.
MathART Projects and Activities. The ideas in this book focus more on making art with simple math concepts, such as using geometry to create flags, making quilt patterns, exploring symmetry and fractions. Since the math concepts are not advanced, even though it is recommended for grades 3-5, a lot of the projects can easily be adapted for younger kids.
Teacher Vision Art and Math Enhance math understanding with art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school. Mix numbers with creativity with art activities that your students will love. You'll find lessons for creating counting books, crafts that encourage measuring, geometry printables to color, sculpting activities, and much more! You can use these resources to introduce new concepts or reinforce topics your students have already learned.
NPR Where Science Meets Art - Some exceptional podcasts integrating Science and Art.
Arts Edge- A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum
Edsitement - vast collection of Art related resources aimed at the Social Studies and Language Arts areas.
Ancient Egypt
Are your learners fascinated by mummies and pyramids? Are ancient civilizations part of your? Explore ancient Egypt at Howtosmile.org with activities like Mummy Magic, The Trial: Grand Vizier Ay Stands Accused of Murder! and Modern Detectives: Think Like an Archaeologist.
Cool Art with Math and Science by Anders Hanson. This is a series of hands-on math art books, which, to be honest, I think are overpriced. However, the projects in each of them are fantastic, so see if your library has them because they are worth checking out. The series includes flexagons, string art, tessellations and structures.
Math + Art = Fun. This has a lot of projects you would expect to see, like tessellations, spirals and graphing. There are also 3D activities and seasonal art projects. I liked the symmetry pop-up cards. It is written in lesson plan form and is aimed at teachers.
Book MathArts contains a wealth of easy-to-do, creative art experiments that encourage children's natural development of math concepts. K - 2
Book Art Lab for Kids: This easy to follow art guide shows kids simple art techniques that will inspire them to be more creative.
Article: Full STEAM Ahead K - 8 10 tips for incorporating art into your STEM class.
Article: Growing from STEM to STEAM Tips to team up the arts and sciences in your classroom
Article 4 Educators' Keys to Connecting STEM and Social Studies
STEM to STEAM - This organization is an advocate for STEAM education. It contains resources and information that allows educators to promote the Arts in STEM education (STEAM). An objective of the STEAM movement is to transform research policy with a goal place Art + Design at the center of STEM.
Math Art is a great way to get kids who love art to appreciate math, and kids who love math to learn about the importance of art. Archives like pi city skylines, spirolaterlas, parabolic curves, tessellations, Fibonacci curves and more. Many of our projects include handy videos to show you how utterly amazing the math art projects truly are.
Math in Art 18 STEAM Projects
Pebdulum Art
Pendulum Painting – The kids can explore the force of gravity while painting, too, with this pendulum painting activity.
Golden Ratio for Kids Art to Math
5 Reasons Why Origami Improves Students' Skills: Explore ways to use origami, the ancient art of paper folding, as a STEAM engine for teaching geometry, thinking skills, fractions, problem solving, and fun science.
The math and magic of origami is a TED Talk featuring Robert Lang - a pioneer of the newest kind of origami. Watch as he uses math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Architecture for Kids projects and curriculum
Ancient Egypt STEAM Projects
Singing Fingers It invites whimsical creativity by combining drawing and sound. video demo
Angles in Art Lesson includes downloads
Art Bot Make a simple robot with electric toothbrush that draws. more options one | two | three
Explore Symmetry.
Eurekus STEAM Curriculum some units are free Others range from $10 - $25
ART IN STEM: Teacher Vision allows students to enjoy participating in math class using art activities. You’ll find lessons here for encouraging measuring, geometry and much more!
Use Art to illustrate STEM ideas Understanding STEM ideas can be tough. Luckily, many concepts are more easily understood with accompanying visual explanations. We can use art projects to help teach or clarify these difficult ideas for kids. (scroll down page)
Make Art Materials with Kids did you know that there's a TON of science involved in making these materials? (Side note- I recently read this book and cannot recommend it enough. History, science, intrigue... !) To help give kids a firsthand experience to this process, try making your own art supplies together! Cutting, mixing, melting, cooking, combining, problem solving..... they get to be a color scientist!
STEAM Enrichment Opportunity
Nonprofit NTC Research Foundation is joining forces with FIRST LEGO League Jr. and The National Theatre for Children to launch a first-of-its-kind national program that provides proven STEAM learning experiences for elementary school students. The program, dubbed Bee on the Team (BOTT), whose aim of reaching more than 200,000 students in 500 elementary schools in need of hands-on STEAM enrichment education opportunities—in school, after school, and at home. BOTT will feature professional actors portraying bees, a bear, and an ant in an age-specific live theatrical event.
Evaporation Art – Let kids explore the properties of water and evaporation with this open-ended art activity.
Choreo Graph (iPad app free ) arts-meets-math creation tool engaging (and silly), and coordinating lessons support learning.
Science4Us K-2 integrates language arts activities that help children practice a number of literacy skills such as: understanding of the relationship and meanings of words and the ability to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words.
Curriculum and Lessons K -12
MathScienceMusic.org is a free web-basedd toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college.
Sing About Science and Math website is a free database of lesson plans for incorporating music into STEM classes.
WildMusic Experiment online with nature and its sounds
The math and magic of origami is a TED Talk featuring Robert Lang - a pioneer of the newest kind of origami. Watch as he uses math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Ancient Greek Architecture STEM Challenge
Rhyme 'n Learn is a series of math and science lessons presented in short rap music form. About half of the raps are provided in video format with visuals to support the lesson. The other half of the lessons are audio only, but do have transcripts available to help your students or you follow along
STEAM to STEM - This organization is an advocate for STEAM education. It contains resources and information that allows educators to promote the Arts in STEM education (STEAM). An objective of the STEAM movement is to transform research policy with a goal place Art + Design at the center of STEM.
STEAM Makerspace - 114 tips, ideas, resources and even lesson ideas for creating your very own STEAM Makerspace.
Over 25 STEAM Links Filled With Resources and Information: Find articles, project ideas, programs, and lesson plans to help inform STEAM curriculum planning.
STEAM Portal – STEAM Resources for Any Classroom
NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. Many of these titles will allow for student reflection and questions as they begin to see how the Arts and Science can be integrated.
Smithsonian Resource Lab applications for the arts, especially STEAM lesson plans. The site is developed around the themes of Discover, Create and Share.
STEM/STEAM and the Movies
STEAM ELA Lessons
Google Art Project. If you’re an art lover, you should not miss this app. Take a chance to discover and view famous artworks online in extraordinary detail.
Coding and the Arts
Arts Edge – A resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.
24 Apps, Games, and Websites Teachers are Using in STEAM Classrooms: Browse a teacher-sourced list of teaching tools for various grade levels and subjects.
Amaziograph iPad app for ways to integrate math and art through symmetry.
STEAM Art Projects with iPad apps
BIE.org - The people at the BUCK Institute For Education have a great area where you can search for activities and projects already made. Note how many projects include both math and science. Want an extra bonus? Include the arts and make STEAM
PBS Design Squad Nation – Turn the innovation on in your classroom. Use Design Squad Nation activities, animations, video profiles, and episodes in classrooms and after-school programs, in libraries and museums, at events and at home. This will engage your students in some amazing activities.
National Gallery of Art – You will find organized into thematic units, each grade-level-specific lesson plan focuses on a single work of art and can be executed within one to two class periods. These lessons meet the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Visual Arts curriculum standards
Exploratorium – Take a look at the entire site, but especially explore the Art related material. You will find lessons that allow you to connect with other subject areas including the STEM disciplines. You will get a new definition of exploring through the Exploratorium,
The Art Institute of Chicago – Explore these wonderful lessons that cover Science and the Arts. It just might have you and your students look at Art in a whole different way. Best of all you will discover some STEAM possibilities.
Lesson Plans and resources for Art Integration – This Edutopia Article has a rich assortment of lessons and resources to integrate Art into curricular areas including Math, Science, and Design. A great read that will lead to some wonderful opportunities.
Masterpieces to Math – A wonderful article that focuses on how to incorporate art in math. Learn how to use Art to teach fractions, decimals, and percent equivalents.
Maker Education Find resources and tools to help bring elements of maker culture into schools and classrooms, and encourage students to explore STEAM subjects within the context of maker projects.
National Engineer Week: Future City – Great Project Based Learning Activity incorporating STEAM along with Language Arts and Social Studies. Engage students with Sim City Software, model building, and a new curriculum designed to integrate disciplines.
Autodesk Digital Steam Workshop - Digital STEAM projects are designed by Autodesk’s network of expert educators, designers and student alumni as exciting complements to core Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art (STEAM) curriculum. Each project aligns with common core and national standards, and delivers measurable learning while using free software.
Kids Like Blues: Using Music and Video to Rock Your Classroom
A teacher and musician, tells the amusing and inspiring story (with generous video examples) of how he turned the blues into an effective pedagogy in his first grade class.
MathScienceMusic.org is a free toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college.
Teacher Vision Art and Math –Students will enjoy participating in math class with our art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school.
Engaging Students in the STEM Classroom Through "Making"An engineering professor and former executive director of the Maker Education Initiative describes how the Maker Movement is engaging STEM students in new ways.
PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit Miller looks at the enhanced possibilities of using 21st-century skills to engage students with real-world challenges through combining the pedagogical model of PBL with the rich content area of STEAM.
Article Music Merger Drexel program blends music and science
Article Why Scientific Innovation Needs the Arts explains the connection between science on the arts
NPR Where Science Meets Art Short podcasts on Science and Art. Many of these titles will allow for student reflection and questions as they be in to see how the Arts and Science can be integrated.
OER Commons There are some powerful lessons that bring the arts into the classroom.
Book Science Arts: Discovering Science Through Art Experiences (K - 5) unique approach to science education! This book is jammed full of one-page "art experiments." The key is to use art projects to learn some science principles. Among many of the ideas to learn are dissolving, symmetry, reflecting light, gravity and friction.
This is Not a Math Book. Inside the pages, kids are invited to draw and explore cool and creative mathematical principles. They draw things in perspective, fool around with illusions and puzzles, create mesmerizing spirals and tessellations. There is plenty of blank paper and graph paper in the back for kids to experiment on their own. I highly recommend this book!
Amazing Math Projects You Can Build Yourself. If you want to include engineering into your math art mix, this is the book for you. I love the 3D building shapes, especially the geodesic dome. There are templates to explore cool topology projects. The text also includes a lot of information about the mathematical concepts in everyday life to ensure kids never look at snowflakes, bridges or patterns the same way again.
Math Arts: Exploring Math Through Art for 3 to 6 Year Olds by MaryAnn Kohl. Most of the math art activity books on this list are aimed at kids in the upper elementary grades. But Kohl’s book lets you start early. Explore patterns, make numbers, play with shapes and prepare your kids for a lifetime appreciation of the STEAM subjects.
MathART Projects and Activities. The ideas in this book focus more on making art with simple math concepts, such as using geometry to create flags, making quilt patterns, exploring symmetry and fractions. Since the math concepts are not advanced, even though it is recommended for grades 3-5, a lot of the projects can easily be adapted for younger kids.
Teacher Vision Art and Math Enhance math understanding with art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school. Mix numbers with creativity with art activities that your students will love. You'll find lessons for creating counting books, crafts that encourage measuring, geometry printables to color, sculpting activities, and much more! You can use these resources to introduce new concepts or reinforce topics your students have already learned.
NPR Where Science Meets Art - Some exceptional podcasts integrating Science and Art.
Arts Edge- A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum
Edsitement - vast collection of Art related resources aimed at the Social Studies and Language Arts areas.
Ancient Egypt
Are your learners fascinated by mummies and pyramids? Are ancient civilizations part of your? Explore ancient Egypt at Howtosmile.org with activities like Mummy Magic, The Trial: Grand Vizier Ay Stands Accused of Murder! and Modern Detectives: Think Like an Archaeologist.
Cool Art with Math and Science by Anders Hanson. This is a series of hands-on math art books, which, to be honest, I think are overpriced. However, the projects in each of them are fantastic, so see if your library has them because they are worth checking out. The series includes flexagons, string art, tessellations and structures.
Math + Art = Fun. This has a lot of projects you would expect to see, like tessellations, spirals and graphing. There are also 3D activities and seasonal art projects. I liked the symmetry pop-up cards. It is written in lesson plan form and is aimed at teachers.
Book MathArts contains a wealth of easy-to-do, creative art experiments that encourage children's natural development of math concepts. K - 2
Book Art Lab for Kids: This easy to follow art guide shows kids simple art techniques that will inspire them to be more creative.
Article: Full STEAM Ahead K - 8 10 tips for incorporating art into your STEM class.
Article: Growing from STEM to STEAM Tips to team up the arts and sciences in your classroom
Article 4 Educators' Keys to Connecting STEM and Social Studies
STEM to STEAM - This organization is an advocate for STEAM education. It contains resources and information that allows educators to promote the Arts in STEM education (STEAM). An objective of the STEAM movement is to transform research policy with a goal place Art + Design at the center of STEM.
Math Art is a great way to get kids who love art to appreciate math, and kids who love math to learn about the importance of art. Archives like pi city skylines, spirolaterlas, parabolic curves, tessellations, Fibonacci curves and more. Many of our projects include handy videos to show you how utterly amazing the math art projects truly are.
Math in Art 18 STEAM Projects
Pebdulum Art
Pendulum Painting – The kids can explore the force of gravity while painting, too, with this pendulum painting activity.
Golden Ratio for Kids Art to Math
5 Reasons Why Origami Improves Students' Skills: Explore ways to use origami, the ancient art of paper folding, as a STEAM engine for teaching geometry, thinking skills, fractions, problem solving, and fun science.
The math and magic of origami is a TED Talk featuring Robert Lang - a pioneer of the newest kind of origami. Watch as he uses math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Architecture for Kids projects and curriculum
- Architecture is Elementary gr. 3 - 8 Students learn the importantce of Ancient Greek Architecture and discover how society has been inspired by its art, law, literature and architecture.
- Fantastic Pinterest collection of building idea for kids.
Ancient Egypt STEAM Projects
Singing Fingers It invites whimsical creativity by combining drawing and sound. video demo
Angles in Art Lesson includes downloads
Art Bot Make a simple robot with electric toothbrush that draws. more options one | two | three
Explore Symmetry.
- This is great for younger kids. You’re probably familiar with the ol’ fold the paper in half and smoosh trick. You can make symmetry art free style, like we did.
- Create gorgeous math art with parabolic curves. My son designed his own eyeball!!
- Create gorgeous objects like these butterflies from Buggy and Buddy.
- These symmetry art aliens make me smile.
- We did this when we turned pi into a cityscape
- Spirolaterals will help your kids practice their multiplication tables.
- Create Fibonacci art with circles.
- This Fibonacci valentine from Math Four could be adapted for any time of the year.
- It can be really simple, like simply giving your kids a ruler, compass and protractor and see what they come up with. If using a compass is tricky, see my tip for drawing with a compass.
- I love this protractor art project that evokes Frank Stella’s artwork.
- Use a ruler to create sunburst paintings, like these at Art Bar.
- The boys love to play around with our homemade Montessori triangles. They don’t even think about the fact that they are creating artistic designs!
- Explore Möbius strips.
- Paint a Mondrian window.
- We also had a great time with these Hexi cards to print out from Picklebums.
- E is for Explore has a few ways kids can use Kandinsky inspired art to think about about circles and relative size.
- Make mandalas. like this idea at NurtureStore. I’ve always wanted to do this.
- Use a geoboard. We were gifted a cheesy plastic geoboard, but Crayon Box Chronicles has instructions so you can make your own.
Eurekus STEAM Curriculum some units are free Others range from $10 - $25
ART IN STEM: Teacher Vision allows students to enjoy participating in math class using art activities. You’ll find lessons here for encouraging measuring, geometry and much more!
Use Art to illustrate STEM ideas Understanding STEM ideas can be tough. Luckily, many concepts are more easily understood with accompanying visual explanations. We can use art projects to help teach or clarify these difficult ideas for kids. (scroll down page)
Make Art Materials with Kids did you know that there's a TON of science involved in making these materials? (Side note- I recently read this book and cannot recommend it enough. History, science, intrigue... !) To help give kids a firsthand experience to this process, try making your own art supplies together! Cutting, mixing, melting, cooking, combining, problem solving..... they get to be a color scientist!
STEAM Enrichment Opportunity
Nonprofit NTC Research Foundation is joining forces with FIRST LEGO League Jr. and The National Theatre for Children to launch a first-of-its-kind national program that provides proven STEAM learning experiences for elementary school students. The program, dubbed Bee on the Team (BOTT), whose aim of reaching more than 200,000 students in 500 elementary schools in need of hands-on STEAM enrichment education opportunities—in school, after school, and at home. BOTT will feature professional actors portraying bees, a bear, and an ant in an age-specific live theatrical event.
Evaporation Art – Let kids explore the properties of water and evaporation with this open-ended art activity.
Choreo Graph (iPad app free ) arts-meets-math creation tool engaging (and silly), and coordinating lessons support learning.
Science4Us K-2 integrates language arts activities that help children practice a number of literacy skills such as: understanding of the relationship and meanings of words and the ability to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words.
Curriculum and Lessons K -12
MathScienceMusic.org is a free web-basedd toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college.
Sing About Science and Math website is a free database of lesson plans for incorporating music into STEM classes.
WildMusic Experiment online with nature and its sounds
The math and magic of origami is a TED Talk featuring Robert Lang - a pioneer of the newest kind of origami. Watch as he uses math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Ancient Greek Architecture STEM Challenge
Rhyme 'n Learn is a series of math and science lessons presented in short rap music form. About half of the raps are provided in video format with visuals to support the lesson. The other half of the lessons are audio only, but do have transcripts available to help your students or you follow along
STEAM to STEM - This organization is an advocate for STEAM education. It contains resources and information that allows educators to promote the Arts in STEM education (STEAM). An objective of the STEAM movement is to transform research policy with a goal place Art + Design at the center of STEM.
STEAM Makerspace - 114 tips, ideas, resources and even lesson ideas for creating your very own STEAM Makerspace.
Over 25 STEAM Links Filled With Resources and Information: Find articles, project ideas, programs, and lesson plans to help inform STEAM curriculum planning.
STEAM Portal – STEAM Resources for Any Classroom
NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. Many of these titles will allow for student reflection and questions as they begin to see how the Arts and Science can be integrated.
Smithsonian Resource Lab applications for the arts, especially STEAM lesson plans. The site is developed around the themes of Discover, Create and Share.
STEM/STEAM and the Movies
STEAM ELA Lessons
Google Art Project. If you’re an art lover, you should not miss this app. Take a chance to discover and view famous artworks online in extraordinary detail.
Coding and the Arts
- Codeable Crafts K-3 Android app is a clever reworking of introductory coding, combining simple crafting (coloring, stickers, cut-out shapes) with visual block-based coding to get kids making animations and telling stories. The best thing about Codeable Crafts is how easy it is to create a short simple animated story. Kids need only to drag simple, puzzle-shaped coding blocks together in different ways to experiment with programming concepts like movement, repetition, and more. They can also just have fun telling a story.
- Google CS First is a free program launched by Google to help students enhance their computer science education through a variety of after-school, in-school, and summer programs. The materials provided by Google CS First are free and available online and each of these materials include lesson plans to help you use them with your students. (article)each students to learn by doing with Google school coding clubseamch students to learn by doing with Google school coding cl
- Teach students to learn by doing with Google school coding clubs These materials include: Play musical notes, create a music video, and build an interactive music display. Learn how programming is used to create music. Check out lesson plans. Learn how computer science and technology are used in the fashion industry while building fashion-themed programs, like: a fashion walk, a stylist tool, and a pattern maker. Check out lesson plans. Use computer science to tell fun and interactive stories. Storytelling emphasizes creativity, with club members telling a unique story each day. Check out lesson plans. Create animations, interactive artwork, photograph filters, and other exciting, artistic projects. Check out lesson plans. Learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games, like: racing, platform, launching and more! Check out lesson plans.
- Scratch gr 4- 12 Before starting with Scratch try Made With Code. Scratch is a simple drop and drag programming Great support and tutorial lessons Workshop Resources | Scratch curriculum page of Wesley Fryer | algebra connections (compare to Snap below) How to Upload and download scratch projects| Share Projects on the Web
- MathScienceMusic.org is a free web-basedd toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college. Use Scratch to code music.
- Scratch Jr. (K-3) Website for resources The Scratch Jr app is for iPad and Android a PBS Kids version of Scratch Jr
- CS Unplugged (gr. 4-10) A collection of free learning activities that teach computer science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons, and allows students to move.
- StoryCode. Computer Programming Through Literature. StoryCode is curriculum and training for using short stories, novels and film to teach the fundamentals of computer programming to diverse learners
- Code Gym A Google-supported open source coding laboratory using drawing, music and creative fiction to introduce coding concepts
- Alice gr 6 -12 is a 3-dimensional interactive animation program visualization environment. Novice programmers build animated 3-D movies and author games as they learn introductory object-oriented programming concepts. Alice provides a drag-and-drop development environment, to prevent students from making syntax errors. Resources for Alice 3 |
- Storybricks innovative way to tell a story through the use of RPG MMO characters. The way this is done is similar to creating a game in Scratch/Alice Storytelling by dragging-n-dropping commands on top of each other to build commands.
Arts Edge – A resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum.You will discover a focus on ways to support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of technology in our lives.
24 Apps, Games, and Websites Teachers are Using in STEAM Classrooms: Browse a teacher-sourced list of teaching tools for various grade levels and subjects.
Amaziograph iPad app for ways to integrate math and art through symmetry.
STEAM Art Projects with iPad apps
BIE.org - The people at the BUCK Institute For Education have a great area where you can search for activities and projects already made. Note how many projects include both math and science. Want an extra bonus? Include the arts and make STEAM
PBS Design Squad Nation – Turn the innovation on in your classroom. Use Design Squad Nation activities, animations, video profiles, and episodes in classrooms and after-school programs, in libraries and museums, at events and at home. This will engage your students in some amazing activities.
National Gallery of Art – You will find organized into thematic units, each grade-level-specific lesson plan focuses on a single work of art and can be executed within one to two class periods. These lessons meet the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Visual Arts curriculum standards
Exploratorium – Take a look at the entire site, but especially explore the Art related material. You will find lessons that allow you to connect with other subject areas including the STEM disciplines. You will get a new definition of exploring through the Exploratorium,
The Art Institute of Chicago – Explore these wonderful lessons that cover Science and the Arts. It just might have you and your students look at Art in a whole different way. Best of all you will discover some STEAM possibilities.
Lesson Plans and resources for Art Integration – This Edutopia Article has a rich assortment of lessons and resources to integrate Art into curricular areas including Math, Science, and Design. A great read that will lead to some wonderful opportunities.
Masterpieces to Math – A wonderful article that focuses on how to incorporate art in math. Learn how to use Art to teach fractions, decimals, and percent equivalents.
Maker Education Find resources and tools to help bring elements of maker culture into schools and classrooms, and encourage students to explore STEAM subjects within the context of maker projects.
National Engineer Week: Future City – Great Project Based Learning Activity incorporating STEAM along with Language Arts and Social Studies. Engage students with Sim City Software, model building, and a new curriculum designed to integrate disciplines.
Autodesk Digital Steam Workshop - Digital STEAM projects are designed by Autodesk’s network of expert educators, designers and student alumni as exciting complements to core Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art (STEAM) curriculum. Each project aligns with common core and national standards, and delivers measurable learning while using free software.
Kids Like Blues: Using Music and Video to Rock Your Classroom
A teacher and musician, tells the amusing and inspiring story (with generous video examples) of how he turned the blues into an effective pedagogy in his first grade class.
MathScienceMusic.org is a free toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college.
Teacher Vision Art and Math –Students will enjoy participating in math class with our art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school.
Engaging Students in the STEM Classroom Through "Making"An engineering professor and former executive director of the Maker Education Initiative describes how the Maker Movement is engaging STEM students in new ways.
PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit Miller looks at the enhanced possibilities of using 21st-century skills to engage students with real-world challenges through combining the pedagogical model of PBL with the rich content area of STEAM.