Facilitating Curriculum Overlap:

Science & Art

Integrated Curriculum

All subjects under a particular theme

Create connections between different subjects

Benefits➢ Improved comprehension

➢ Improved behavior

➢ Differentiation

➢ Many others…

It’s FUN!!

How it works

➢ Non-verbal communication

➢ Invokes an emotional response

➢ Easier to understand difficult concepts

We have all used visuals for years for obvious reasons

Things like…

maps or graphs…

With the magic of technology mixed with artistic effort, you can

make your visuals come alive!

interactive maps and stunning visuals…

Change your old school graphics into information filled

images…

Don’t try to explain where billions of dollars of budgets go…

…show it!!!!!

or make it .58 sterling

Show gravity…

bend light with gravity…

suck in all light with gravity…

The future is interactive Graphics

Presentation and Design Resources

● Andrew Dlugan's Six Minutes● Ethos3● Information is Beautiful● Nancy Duarte● Phil Waknell: Phil Presents● Presentation Zen● Slides That Rock● Speaking.Alltop● TED: Ideas Worth Spreading● Tweak Your Slides

You may be familiar with the person who was one of the founders of this NEW trend.

Leonardo

Collaboration: Art and Science teachers

Similar to a flipped classroom

Introduction of Concepts - Science teacher- demonstrate understanding

Innovation - Art Teacher creates a scenario- reconstruct

Application - Collaboration between both teachers-

emphasis on creative inquiry in scientific pursuits

Animal Inspired Defense Dress- Blowfish

Animal Adaptations in Fashion

Amisha Gadani

Art from Microorganisms

• Lindsay Olson Art works

Filamentous BacteriaTextiles and embellishments

Crawling Ciliate Aspidisca Textiles and embellishments

Knitted Dissections

• Emily Stoneking

Education Publications and Artist Residencies• STEM to STEAM

• TED Mae Jemison

• Art+Technology Lab- LACMA

• Cern Artist Residency

Some sites to inspire you:Flow Vis- studying the art of making fluid flow visibleFlow Vis

Science and the Artist's Book- online exhibition at the Smithsonian

Colossal- Art Design and Visual Culture

Tissue paper stop motion

The 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition- a review by a resident artist

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Air Package sculpture

Inventern

Inquiry-based Overlapped Theme➢ Concept: Structure &

Function➢ Almost all grade levels

➢ Rigorous observation skills

➢ Hypothesize a function based on its biological structure.

Pure ArtPure Science

Object Blueprint

Abstraction

Final Piece

1. Obtain a biological object/image

2. Create a blueprint pertaining to function

3. 2/3D abstraction of object (but what is a scientific abstraction??)

4. Final art piece➢ poem, song, skit, dance ➢ graphic or sculptural works

Pop Art Liposom | Dvir Gur, Structural Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Atomic Energy

Kinematics

Fluid Dynamics

Resources

http://www.science-sparks.com/2013/07/29/water-balloons-and-a-han

gout/

http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2013/04/ice-art-wash-and-learn.ht

ml

http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com.es/2012/01/pendulum-painting.html

http://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/insoluble-paintings/

http://www.beatricebiologist.com/

http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/09/15/biology-inspired-a

rt/