Technology, Art, and Art History STEAM project at NRC!

NRC's technology teacher, Mrs. Selino, and NRC science teachers, Ms. Cunningham, Ms. McGee, Ms. Chiquito, Ms. Cruz, and Ms. Garcia recently collaborated on an innovative STEAM project.

In this project, students used Scientific Method vocabulary words from their science classes in their technology class to create a Tagxedo* project with Mrs. Selino.

Above and left:  Janette Selino, Technology Teacher at NRC proudly points to the student work.

 

Students were first directed to science sites on their computers in technology class to find a general image relating to any scientific area. Then, Mrs. Selino explained how to fill this image with their scientific vocabulary words from science class as well as their name, their respective science teacher’s name, their university name and their grade. Students responded with excitement, saying, for example, “Wow, we are learning these same words in science class!”

The whole purpose of STEAM is to create collaborations between art, science, math, engineering and technology teachers so that students can make connections throughout their day between the distinct subject areas, and also see them as the unified whole these subject areas actually are.  STEAM works for teachers as well as for students, and both teaching and learning are constantly taking place in this process.

(A special thanks to the Dodge Foundation from the NRC Staff!)

* Tagxedo runs words into visually stunning word clouds.  See tagxedo.com for more information