Visual Pedagogy PresentationBy: Samantha Morron

How can art be integrated into math?

Teaching art in mathematics…

Throughout my research online and through teacher interviews I have found a variety of activities that integrate art into math:

Designing a quilt…

Creating and working with tessellations…

Creating and examining mosaics…

Working with tangrams…

Observing shapes, lines, and patterns in art…

Building shapes and towers with Unifix Cubes…

Making shapes on Geoboards…

Creating scale diagrams

Working with reflections….

Translations…

Rotations…

Making fraction pictures…

Math Graffiti Wall

Created by John Sims Had students create poetry about math and

to create a graffiti wall of the concepts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhd9ZyoIRjY

How can art be integrated into science?

Teaching art in science…

Throughout my research online and through teacher interviews I have found a variety of activities that integrate art into science:

Teaching primary colors of light…

Teaching primary colors of ink…

Creating diagrams…

Examining and recreating fossils….

Sketching observations…

Creating mobiles…

Making kaleidoscopes…

Making a model…

Building simple machines…

Creating diaramas…

Taking pictures…

Drawing the digestive system…

Science journals…

Our Zoo to you…

Students took a trip to the zoo, recorded observations of animals into their journals in the form of drawings.

Students took this information and began learning off of the information they gathered at the zoo.

Refrences

Blaccioniere, Michelle (4th Grade Teacher in Field Experience Placement)

Cross, Dionne (Math Methods Teacher) Nargund, Vanshari (Field Experience Instructor) Weibke, Heidi (Science Methods Teacher) Wilson, K., Trainin, G., Laughridge, V., Brooks, D., & Wickless,

M. (2011). Our Zoo To You: The link between zoo animals in the classroom and science and literacy concepts in first-grade journal writing. Journal Of Early Childhood Literacy, 11(3), 275-306. doi:10.1177/1468798410390898

WYNN, T. (2011). Math into Visual Art into Math into Poetry: Rhythm of Structure at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York. International Review Of African American Art, 23(3), 62-64.