Arts and Humanities
The arts can be one of the most powerful ways to encourage and foster a growth mindset.
There are many places where students have a fixed mindset that can be used as a springboard for learning. "I can't draw" or "I only sing in the shower" are where we can find pathways for growth. Carol Dweck |
Books and Articles
Book K - 5: STEAM Kids: 50+ Science / Technology / Engineering / Art / Math Hands-On Projects for Kids
Article Why Scientific Innovation Needs The Arts – Explore this wonderful article from the Guardian that explains the connection between science and the arts. Great read to support STEAM thinking in any educational setting.
Article: How Music Changes Learning
Article STEM Fiction Can Help Energize ELA Classes
Article: 10 Ways to Incorporate Writing in STEAM
Article: Music Merger Drexel program blends music and science
inderArt – Discover Fine Art lessons as they apply to all different subject areas. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Some great ideas to integrate with.
Article: Four Skills From STEAM Education - Check out this 2019 article from Teach Thought on the benefits of providing a STEAM Education.
ArtSTEM – Claims to be a site where the Arts and Humanities meet the STEM Disciplines. Wonderful collection of blog posts that contain both writing and multimedia to display the Art in Science.
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.
Article: Full STEAM Ahead K - 8 10 tips for incorporating art into your STEM class.
Article: Fizzics Education - Learn how Art and the Design Process come together to make great lessons.
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
7 Ideas for Teaching Social Studies with STEM
OER Commons There are some powerful lessons that bring the arts into the classroom.
Teacher Vision Art and Math –Art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school. You will find opportunities to mix numbers with creativity and art activities that your students will love. There are lessons for creating counting books, crafts that encourage measuring, geometry printables to color, sculpting activities, and much more! Introduce new concepts or reinforce topics your students have already learned.
Article: Dewey Mac Maker Mysteries: Dog Gone Dog and videos at http://www.deweymac.com/ Explore the spy gadgets that Dewey makes throughout the book and learn how you can make a lie detector, a claw blaster grappling hook, and a spy microphone.
Article: STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 is Key to Strong Economy: Learn how adding art and design elements to STEM approaches may help students be better prepared to solve the creative problems of the future. (Edutopia, 2012)
Article: The Art of Thinking Like a Scientist: Read about the links between the arts and STEM. (ASCD Express, 2014)
Article: Creativity is the Secret Sauce in STEM: Learn about the critical role creativity plays in science, technology, engineering, and math. (Edutopia, 2013)
Article: At the Crossroads of STEM, STEAM, and Arts Integration: Understand how interdisciplinary approaches can be pivot points across multiple content areas. (Edutopia, 2013)
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!
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.
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 Why Scientific Innovation Needs The Arts – Explore this wonderful article from the Guardian that explains the connection between science and the arts. Great read to support STEAM thinking in any educational setting.
Article: How Music Changes Learning
Article STEM Fiction Can Help Energize ELA Classes
Article: 10 Ways to Incorporate Writing in STEAM
Article: Music Merger Drexel program blends music and science
inderArt – Discover Fine Art lessons as they apply to all different subject areas. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Some great ideas to integrate with.
Article: Four Skills From STEAM Education - Check out this 2019 article from Teach Thought on the benefits of providing a STEAM Education.
ArtSTEM – Claims to be a site where the Arts and Humanities meet the STEM Disciplines. Wonderful collection of blog posts that contain both writing and multimedia to display the Art in Science.
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.
Article: Full STEAM Ahead K - 8 10 tips for incorporating art into your STEM class.
Article: Fizzics Education - Learn how Art and the Design Process come together to make great lessons.
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
7 Ideas for Teaching Social Studies with STEM
OER Commons There are some powerful lessons that bring the arts into the classroom.
Teacher Vision Art and Math –Art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school. You will find opportunities to mix numbers with creativity and art activities that your students will love. There are lessons for creating counting books, crafts that encourage measuring, geometry printables to color, sculpting activities, and much more! Introduce new concepts or reinforce topics your students have already learned.
Article: Dewey Mac Maker Mysteries: Dog Gone Dog and videos at http://www.deweymac.com/ Explore the spy gadgets that Dewey makes throughout the book and learn how you can make a lie detector, a claw blaster grappling hook, and a spy microphone.
Article: STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 is Key to Strong Economy: Learn how adding art and design elements to STEM approaches may help students be better prepared to solve the creative problems of the future. (Edutopia, 2012)
Article: The Art of Thinking Like a Scientist: Read about the links between the arts and STEM. (ASCD Express, 2014)
Article: Creativity is the Secret Sauce in STEM: Learn about the critical role creativity plays in science, technology, engineering, and math. (Edutopia, 2013)
Article: At the Crossroads of STEM, STEAM, and Arts Integration: Understand how interdisciplinary approaches can be pivot points across multiple content areas. (Edutopia, 2013)
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!
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.
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.
Portals
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!
Exploring STEAM Topics with Google Arts & Culture Ideas for integrating the arts including music
ENGINEERS IN THE CLASSROOM: This site has a range of STEM projects for classroom use. A joint venture between Lockheed-Martin and National Geographic, these projects are teacher-friendly and easy to implement in the classroom. You can search by grade and subject area
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)
BabbleDabbleDo – This is a site that allows students to explore and engage with their right brain. This is important in our tech saturated world. This site provides that creative angle that puts kids in that out of the box mode while exploring concepts in science, math, and engineering. The site proclaims that the best part of creating is the process.
Kids Think Design—an interactive website about how to see the world like a designer.
Integrating the Arts activities that are ideal for visual arts teachers who want to integrate the arts into other disciplines or for non-arts teachers who want to venture into the world of art. Teachers can use the visual arts activities to teach concepts of social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula. Designed for middle school students but adaptable for elementary and high school,
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.
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.
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!
Lemon Lime Adventures 50 STEAM Projects and Activities – Take some time to look through the various links on this page. You are bound to find some great possibilities that will fit your standards.
KinderArt – Discover Fine Art lessons as they apply to all different subject areas. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Some great ideas to integrate with.
Art in Action – Take a look at these mini Art lessons that allow students to get in that right brain frame of mind.
Learn It By Art - Take any subject... you can learn it by using Art. What might you find?
Fizzics Education - Learn how Art and the Design Process come together to make great lessons.
Left Brain Craft Brain – Discover this blog with great activities and possibilities to engage the whole brain in the engineering process. It is a self-proclaimed mega monster of STEAM posts. You will find some of the coolest science, technology, engineering, art and math projects from some of the most creative bloggers out there.
What is STEAM ? – This is an amazing resource site from the Education Closet. here you will find some great lessons that are aligned to the standards of STEM and Art curriculum. Be sure to read the blogs, links, news, and research. Be sure to check out all the possibilities on this site by clicking the menu. You will even find a STEAM-based magazine.
Eurekus – This is a site with STEAM powered discovery. Discover the many free lessons that bring the left brain world alive in the the right brain.
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.
Arts Edge- A 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.
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.
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.
Exploring STEAM Topics with Google Arts & Culture Ideas for integrating the arts including music
ENGINEERS IN THE CLASSROOM: This site has a range of STEM projects for classroom use. A joint venture between Lockheed-Martin and National Geographic, these projects are teacher-friendly and easy to implement in the classroom. You can search by grade and subject area
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)
BabbleDabbleDo – This is a site that allows students to explore and engage with their right brain. This is important in our tech saturated world. This site provides that creative angle that puts kids in that out of the box mode while exploring concepts in science, math, and engineering. The site proclaims that the best part of creating is the process.
Kids Think Design—an interactive website about how to see the world like a designer.
Integrating the Arts activities that are ideal for visual arts teachers who want to integrate the arts into other disciplines or for non-arts teachers who want to venture into the world of art. Teachers can use the visual arts activities to teach concepts of social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula. Designed for middle school students but adaptable for elementary and high school,
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.
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.
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!
Lemon Lime Adventures 50 STEAM Projects and Activities – Take some time to look through the various links on this page. You are bound to find some great possibilities that will fit your standards.
KinderArt – Discover Fine Art lessons as they apply to all different subject areas. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Some great ideas to integrate with.
Art in Action – Take a look at these mini Art lessons that allow students to get in that right brain frame of mind.
Learn It By Art - Take any subject... you can learn it by using Art. What might you find?
Fizzics Education - Learn how Art and the Design Process come together to make great lessons.
Left Brain Craft Brain – Discover this blog with great activities and possibilities to engage the whole brain in the engineering process. It is a self-proclaimed mega monster of STEAM posts. You will find some of the coolest science, technology, engineering, art and math projects from some of the most creative bloggers out there.
What is STEAM ? – This is an amazing resource site from the Education Closet. here you will find some great lessons that are aligned to the standards of STEM and Art curriculum. Be sure to read the blogs, links, news, and research. Be sure to check out all the possibilities on this site by clicking the menu. You will even find a STEAM-based magazine.
Eurekus – This is a site with STEAM powered discovery. Discover the many free lessons that bring the left brain world alive in the the right brain.
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.
Arts Edge- A 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.
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.
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.
Math Connections
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.
Masterpieces to Math – Incorporate art in math. Learn how to use Art to teach fractions, decimals, and percent equivalents. You will look at Math in a whole new STEAMie way.
Interdisciplinary Student-Driven ProjectsImagineering in a Box is designed to pull back the curtain to show students in middle school and high school how artists, designers, and engineers work together to create theme parks. The program, from Khan Academy, takes a behind-the-scenes look with Disney Imagineers and makes it an active learning experience by weaving together videos and exercises into lessons that culminate in student-driven projects. The goal is to make students aware of careers they never knew existed and deepen their understanding of the process, concepts, and terminology of the creative workplace. The content can be used in a wide range of contexts: the arts, humanities, math, and science. It can be used as part of a one-week to one-month-long project that students can do alone or in groups. As in the workplace, all of the lessons are interdisciplinary, yet focused in different ways. Lesson 1, “Creating Worlds,” is art and design focused (activities done with physical materials). Lesson 2, “Designing Attractions,” is art and math focused (physical and computer-based activities). Lesson 3, “Bringing Characters to Life,” is art and engineering focused (physical and computer-based activities). An Educator’s guide for each lesson summarizes the activities for that lesson.
Teacher Vision Art and Math –Art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school. You will find opportunities to mix numbers with creativity and art activities that your students will love. There are lessons for creating counting books, crafts that encourage measuring, geometry printables to color, sculpting activities, and much more! Introduce new concepts or reinforce topics your students have already learned.
Books Inspiring Children to See Math in the World Around ThemOne way to bring the subject of mathematics to life, according to the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI), is through literature. According to the organization, “books connect with the sense of wonder and imagination and creativity.” To spotlight such books, MSRI created the Mathical Book Prize in 2015. Each year a panel of librarians, teachers, mathematicians, and early childhood experts selects winners and honors books in five grade-level categories: PreK, K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. This year’s selections bring the full Mathical list
Cardboard Challenge – Not everything needs high tech and expensive resources. A lot can be done with a cardboard box and a lot of imagination. Check out this amazing challenge from the Imagine Foundation. Take a moment to watch the video. You and your students will want to be involved with this amazing low tech, high engagement possibility.
KinderArt – Discover Fine Art lessons as they apply to all different subject areas. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Some great ideas to integrate with.
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.
Integrating the Arts activities that are ideal for visual arts teachers who want to integrate the arts into other disciplines or for non-arts teachers who want to venture into the world of art. Teachers can use the visual arts activities to teach concepts of social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula. Designed for middle school students but adaptable for elementary and high school,
Da Vinci – The Genius, a website created by the Museum of Science, Boston, helps students gain insight into the mind of this genius and the fundamental scientific and artistic principles he discovered. Leonardo da Vinci applied the scientific method to every aspect of life, including art and music. Although he is best known for his dramatic and expressive artwork, Da Vinci also conducted dozens of carefully thought-out experiments and created futuristic inventions that were groundbreaking for the time. Students are invited to navigate this website and explore ten interactive learning activities to learn more about Da Vinci’s brilliant and imaginative mind, as well as his art, inventions, and discoveries.
Math in Art 18 STEAM Projects
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.
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.
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.
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.
Golden Ratio for Kids Art to Math
Angles in Art Lesson includes downloads
Choreo Graph (iPad app free ) arts-meets-math creation tool engaging (and silly), and coordinating lessons support learning.
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.
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.
Amaziograph iPad app for ways to integrate math and art through symmetry.
Explore Symmetry.
Eurekus STEAM Curriculum some units are free Others range from $10 - $25
Masterpieces to Math – Incorporate art in math. Learn how to use Art to teach fractions, decimals, and percent equivalents. You will look at Math in a whole new STEAMie way.
Interdisciplinary Student-Driven ProjectsImagineering in a Box is designed to pull back the curtain to show students in middle school and high school how artists, designers, and engineers work together to create theme parks. The program, from Khan Academy, takes a behind-the-scenes look with Disney Imagineers and makes it an active learning experience by weaving together videos and exercises into lessons that culminate in student-driven projects. The goal is to make students aware of careers they never knew existed and deepen their understanding of the process, concepts, and terminology of the creative workplace. The content can be used in a wide range of contexts: the arts, humanities, math, and science. It can be used as part of a one-week to one-month-long project that students can do alone or in groups. As in the workplace, all of the lessons are interdisciplinary, yet focused in different ways. Lesson 1, “Creating Worlds,” is art and design focused (activities done with physical materials). Lesson 2, “Designing Attractions,” is art and math focused (physical and computer-based activities). Lesson 3, “Bringing Characters to Life,” is art and engineering focused (physical and computer-based activities). An Educator’s guide for each lesson summarizes the activities for that lesson.
Teacher Vision Art and Math –Art activities for teachers of any grade level, from elementary to high school. You will find opportunities to mix numbers with creativity and art activities that your students will love. There are lessons for creating counting books, crafts that encourage measuring, geometry printables to color, sculpting activities, and much more! Introduce new concepts or reinforce topics your students have already learned.
Books Inspiring Children to See Math in the World Around ThemOne way to bring the subject of mathematics to life, according to the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI), is through literature. According to the organization, “books connect with the sense of wonder and imagination and creativity.” To spotlight such books, MSRI created the Mathical Book Prize in 2015. Each year a panel of librarians, teachers, mathematicians, and early childhood experts selects winners and honors books in five grade-level categories: PreK, K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. This year’s selections bring the full Mathical list
Cardboard Challenge – Not everything needs high tech and expensive resources. A lot can be done with a cardboard box and a lot of imagination. Check out this amazing challenge from the Imagine Foundation. Take a moment to watch the video. You and your students will want to be involved with this amazing low tech, high engagement possibility.
KinderArt – Discover Fine Art lessons as they apply to all different subject areas. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Some great ideas to integrate with.
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.
Integrating the Arts activities that are ideal for visual arts teachers who want to integrate the arts into other disciplines or for non-arts teachers who want to venture into the world of art. Teachers can use the visual arts activities to teach concepts of social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula. Designed for middle school students but adaptable for elementary and high school,
Da Vinci – The Genius, a website created by the Museum of Science, Boston, helps students gain insight into the mind of this genius and the fundamental scientific and artistic principles he discovered. Leonardo da Vinci applied the scientific method to every aspect of life, including art and music. Although he is best known for his dramatic and expressive artwork, Da Vinci also conducted dozens of carefully thought-out experiments and created futuristic inventions that were groundbreaking for the time. Students are invited to navigate this website and explore ten interactive learning activities to learn more about Da Vinci’s brilliant and imaginative mind, as well as his art, inventions, and discoveries.
Math in Art 18 STEAM Projects
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.
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.
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.
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.
Golden Ratio for Kids Art to Math
Angles in Art Lesson includes downloads
Choreo Graph (iPad app free ) arts-meets-math creation tool engaging (and silly), and coordinating lessons support learning.
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.
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.
Amaziograph iPad app for ways to integrate math and art through symmetry.
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
Science Connections
NPR Where Science Meets Art - Some exceptional podcasts integrating Science and Art.
Art in Engineering – Moving ArtIn this activity from TeachEngineering, students learn how forces are used in the creation of art. They come to understand that it is not just bridge and airplane designers who are concerned about how forces interact with objects, but artists as well. As “paper engineers,” students use the associated activities to create their own mobiles and pop-up books, and identify and use the forces (air currents, gravity, hand movement) acting upon them.
STEAM Learning: Beauty and Truth in Science and Art STEAM Specialist asks students to explore connections between science and art–specifically, how both can communicate beauty and truth about the world–as a catalyst to further inquiry into the solar system.
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.
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)
Integrating the Arts activities that are ideal for visual arts teachers who want to integrate the arts into other disciplines or for non-arts teachers who want to venture into the world of art. Teachers can use the visual arts activities to teach concepts of social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula. Designed for middle school students but adaptable for elementary and high school,
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
Space School Musical – Your students will enjoy joining teenager Hannah on a trip through the solar system in this ultra-cool edu-tainment “hip-hopera” that uses song and dance to introduce the planets, moons, asteroids and more. Educators can download the lyrics for students to learn and perform the routines for themselves or just play the videos in class. There are also links provided for more in-depth activities.
Share Space Foundation – The ShareSpace Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring children’s passions for science, technology, engineering, arts and math by providing innovative, interactive educational tools to educators across the country. ShareSpace has reached more than 250,000 children across the globe through strategic partnerships and the engaging Giant Mars Map
OK GO Sandbox – Helping students learn through the joy, wonder, and fun of OK Go’s music videos. You will find some real engaging possibilities!
Activities Intersecting Art and Science
Exploring Leonardo focuses on the intersection between art and science, exploring how Leonardo da Vinci applied the scientific method creatively in every aspect of life, including art and music. Students can explore the interactive learning activities on the site to discover more about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist.
Evaporation Art – Let kids explore the properties of water and evaporation with this open-ended art activity.
Pendulum Art
Pendulum Painting – The kids can explore the force of gravity while painting, too, with this pendulum painting activity.
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.
MathScienceMusic.org is a free toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college.
Art in Engineering – Moving ArtIn this activity from TeachEngineering, students learn how forces are used in the creation of art. They come to understand that it is not just bridge and airplane designers who are concerned about how forces interact with objects, but artists as well. As “paper engineers,” students use the associated activities to create their own mobiles and pop-up books, and identify and use the forces (air currents, gravity, hand movement) acting upon them.
STEAM Learning: Beauty and Truth in Science and Art STEAM Specialist asks students to explore connections between science and art–specifically, how both can communicate beauty and truth about the world–as a catalyst to further inquiry into the solar system.
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.
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)
Integrating the Arts activities that are ideal for visual arts teachers who want to integrate the arts into other disciplines or for non-arts teachers who want to venture into the world of art. Teachers can use the visual arts activities to teach concepts of social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula. Designed for middle school students but adaptable for elementary and high school,
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
Space School Musical – Your students will enjoy joining teenager Hannah on a trip through the solar system in this ultra-cool edu-tainment “hip-hopera” that uses song and dance to introduce the planets, moons, asteroids and more. Educators can download the lyrics for students to learn and perform the routines for themselves or just play the videos in class. There are also links provided for more in-depth activities.
Share Space Foundation – The ShareSpace Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring children’s passions for science, technology, engineering, arts and math by providing innovative, interactive educational tools to educators across the country. ShareSpace has reached more than 250,000 children across the globe through strategic partnerships and the engaging Giant Mars Map
OK GO Sandbox – Helping students learn through the joy, wonder, and fun of OK Go’s music videos. You will find some real engaging possibilities!
Activities Intersecting Art and Science
Exploring Leonardo focuses on the intersection between art and science, exploring how Leonardo da Vinci applied the scientific method creatively in every aspect of life, including art and music. Students can explore the interactive learning activities on the site to discover more about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist.
Evaporation Art – Let kids explore the properties of water and evaporation with this open-ended art activity.
Pendulum Art
Pendulum Painting – The kids can explore the force of gravity while painting, too, with this pendulum painting activity.
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.
MathScienceMusic.org is a free toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music. Designed for students, kindergarten through college.
Social Studies - History
Ancient Civilizations STEAM Challenges This resources focuses on ancient India, however, the framewok could be replicated for other civilizations click for full lesson plans
7 Ideas for Teaching Social Studies with STEM
History twists – after studying western expansion, students could recreate one of the inventions from that time such as the water wheel. We find this type of activity gives the students a greater understanding of the challenges faced by early settlers.
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.Arts Edge- A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum
7 Challenges for Ancient Greece
Curriculum and Lessons K -12
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.
7 Ideas for Teaching Social Studies with STEM
History twists – after studying western expansion, students could recreate one of the inventions from that time such as the water wheel. We find this type of activity gives the students a greater understanding of the challenges faced by early settlers.
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.Arts Edge- A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum
7 Challenges for Ancient Greece
Curriculum and Lessons K -12
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.
Origami
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.
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.
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.
Music
Article: How Music Changes Learning
Singing Fingers It invites whimsical creativity by combining drawing and sound. video demo
Chrome Music Lab by Google Creative Lab inspires children to create music and examine the connections between music and math, science, and art. It’s simple and fun to play around with rhythm, harmonics, chords, songwriting, and much more. Teachers can combine Chrome Music Lab with dance and live instruments.
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.
Design a musical instrument and control the loudness and frequency of the sound. gr. 4 - 8
✅13 ways to connect music and lyrics to class
Chrome Music Lab
Google Add-on An amazing free resource that inspires kids to create music and examine the connections between music and math, science, and art. It’s simple and fun to play around with rhythm, harmonics, chords, songwriting, and much more.
Experiment and Create New Sounds on WolframTones Wolfram Tones is a neat offering from Wolfram that students can use to can play with sample sounds and rhythms to create new own sounds. Wolfram Tones uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds. Wolfram Tones allows visitors to choose samples from fifteen different genres of music on which to build their own sounds. Once a genre is selected visitors can then alter the rhythms, instrumentation, and pitch mapping of their sounds. When satisfied with their creations, users can download their sounds as MP3 files. Watch this short video to learn how to use WolframTones. www.freetech4teachers.com
Sing About Science and Math website is a free database of lesson plans for incorporating music into STEM classes.
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.
Singing Fingers It invites whimsical creativity by combining drawing and sound. video demo
Chrome Music Lab by Google Creative Lab inspires children to create music and examine the connections between music and math, science, and art. It’s simple and fun to play around with rhythm, harmonics, chords, songwriting, and much more. Teachers can combine Chrome Music Lab with dance and live instruments.
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.
Design a musical instrument and control the loudness and frequency of the sound. gr. 4 - 8
✅13 ways to connect music and lyrics to class
Chrome Music Lab
Google Add-on An amazing free resource that inspires kids to create music and examine the connections between music and math, science, and art. It’s simple and fun to play around with rhythm, harmonics, chords, songwriting, and much more.
Experiment and Create New Sounds on WolframTones Wolfram Tones is a neat offering from Wolfram that students can use to can play with sample sounds and rhythms to create new own sounds. Wolfram Tones uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds. Wolfram Tones allows visitors to choose samples from fifteen different genres of music on which to build their own sounds. Once a genre is selected visitors can then alter the rhythms, instrumentation, and pitch mapping of their sounds. When satisfied with their creations, users can download their sounds as MP3 files. Watch this short video to learn how to use WolframTones. www.freetech4teachers.com
Sing About Science and Math website is a free database of lesson plans for incorporating music into STEM classes.
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.
ELA
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
STEM/STEAM and the Movies
Art & Resistance 2: Black Women Subjects Free from the Gaze by Sher Anderson Petty, IB Literature teacher at Seneca Valley High School (MD), ties a reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved to artwork of and by black women to explore how the concept of “the gaze” in art and literature can be a system, or part of a system, of oppression.
STEAM ELA Lessons
Curriculum and Lessons K -12
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.
STEM/STEAM and the Movies
Art & Resistance 2: Black Women Subjects Free from the Gaze by Sher Anderson Petty, IB Literature teacher at Seneca Valley High School (MD), ties a reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved to artwork of and by black women to explore how the concept of “the gaze” in art and literature can be a system, or part of a system, of oppression.
STEAM ELA Lessons
Curriculum and Lessons K -12
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.
Coding and Art
- 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.