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STEAM:
The Arts in Relation to STEM Education
Arthur Eisenkraft, Distinguished Professor of Science Education, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Edward Morris, Co-Founder and Director, The Canary Project, NY
Dain Olsen, Chair, Media Arts Educator, ArtLab High School, CA
Lisa Yokana, Arts Educator, Scarsdale High School, NY
STEM to STEAM
Arthur Eisenkraft
UMass Boston
Pas de Deux
by Normal McLaren
Nude Descending a
Staircase, No. 2
By Marcel Duchamp
Black Square and
Red Square
By Kasimir Malevich
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
STEM to STEAM
• Purpose of infusing the arts
– to better engage the students OR
– to increase understanding of science?
Quantoons by
Tomas Bunk
www.nsta.org
Light and Sound Show
Active Physics
Arthur Eisenkraft
Artist as Chemist
Active Chemistry
Arthur Eisenkraft
STEM to STEAM
• Does STEAM imply that the arts are
infused in STEM or
• that STEM is infused in arts education?
• We don’t want Arts to be subservient or
the handmaiden of science.
―Arts and crafts develop such skills as observation,
visual thinking, the ability to recognize and form
patterns, and manipulative ability. They develop habits
of thought and action that include practicing,
persevering, and trial-and-error problem solving. They
pose new challenges,.... And they provide novel
structures, methods, and analogies that can stimulate
scientific innovation.
For all these reasons, finding ways to foster arts
education alongside science education—and, even
better, finding ways to integrate the two—must become
a high priority for any school that wants to produce
students capable of creative participation in a science-
dominated society like ours.‖ (Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein, Educational Leadership, February
2013)
Bruno Munari’s
Drawing a Tree, 1978
Rule of growth: the
branch that follows
is always slenderer
than the one that
preceded it
Calculating the
height and
circumference of
the tree
Fibonacci’s
Series
http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/fibs
lide/fib31.gif
Design
Thinking(adapted for Scarsdale
High School by Margaret
Favretti)
http://briccommunitymedia.wordpress.c
om/2011/12/02/the-canary-project-the-
gowanus-caught-in-the-act /
“Imagine Mars”
A collaboration with
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA
Design-based Challenge:Create a sustainable community on Mars
REFLECT what makes a community survive, and thrive?
DISCOVERchallenging environmental conditions
and possible solutions.
IMAGINEa thriving community on Mars.
CREATEdesigns for their Martian community.
SHAREwith local and Imagine Mars Project communities.
POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES:MARS STORIES-MYTHS/HISTORICAL
PLANETARY SCIENCEENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
COMMUNITY INVESTIGATIONCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABILITYDESIGN/ENGINEERING:
Landing EquipmentEnvironmentArchitecture
TransportationClothing
RecreationAesthetics