
Plan time for each subject, map the lesson order, and decide if integrated projects can span multiple days; test retention, coordinate with busy teachers, gather honest feedback, and revise accordingly.
Collaborate to design a spiraling, nature-inspired art-science lesson around romanesco broccoli and the Fibonacci sequence, linking shells, galaxies, and storm systems, while navigating budget constraints.
Aligns second-grade standards in measurement and geometry with an art-led lesson, weaving Fibonacci concepts, garden science, and spiral patterns from pineapple and pine cone into scaffolded learning.
Engage second graders with a hands-on art project that builds Fibonacci numbers on graph paper using arcs and a golden spiral, scaled for classroom materials like paper, scissors, and tape.
Engage students in observing spirals in nature and the golden ratio, discuss interpretations, relate history to art, and use senses to build vocabulary before creating reflective art.
Educators and students celebrate a successful piloted lesson that sparks discovery about growth, spirals in nature, Banaji numbers, and pineapples, with powerful aha moments.
STEAM ON provides a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to create a STEAM curriculum from the ground up for K-8 school teachers, education providers and parent volunteers.
Follow along as we describe each aspect of arts-integrated lesson development from conception to collaboration to refining to presenting. We will use highlights from a recently developed STEAM unit on spirals in nature which was created as a partnership between an arts organization, a parent-led gardening program and a school hungry for collaboration.
The course will take less than 30 minutes to complete and at the end you will have new confidence and skills to take back to your school as well as a sample curriculum outline to get you started.