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I have been asked to create some lessons for various elementary grade levels that are science based but with an art element. I have found some ideas and am using the science standards as starting point to create others. Has anyone found or made lessons like this?

Hi Sheila- There are so many ways to engage young students in science and art. I'm sure you've come across some of these already, but here are some I have done: -Grow Crystal Snowflakes on pipe cleaners in a Borax solution -Felt-tip marker chromatography on coffee filters -Balancing butterflies or birds http://ideas4kids.org/activity/balancingbutterflies -"Rain drop painting" allow the rain to fall on black paper for a temporary image (I did this today!) -Bubble painting http://www.education.com/activity/article/soap_bubble_prints/ (definitely practice this first, they come out great...but it can take some finesse) I'm sure I have more, but this is what I can think of off the top of my head. Good luck! -Sarah www.shareitscience.com

Hey there, I found this website that might be helpful. http://www.teachhub.com/integrate-science-across-curriculum Good Luck!

Hi, There are many science and art related activities that can be done. I have a kindergarten classroom and my favorite one is when we learn about spiders and they have to each create a spider out of paper. I take a sentence strip and on it, after my interactive lesson, the students write their favorite fact they learned. They add the eight legs and then I staple it together to make a hat. The children enjoyed it and learned at the same time. There are many other things that can be done. I found this webpage and I use it all the time for ideas, hopefully it helps you! Good luck. http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=science%20art&term_meta%5B%5D=science%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=art%7Ctyped

Seasons is a great way to integrate art with science. Students can create a piece of art that represents the different seasons. Hope this helps!

I did a lesson on living things and basic needs while integrating art. Here is a website that might be helpful too. Good luck! http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2012/10/art-integration-easy-ideas-combining-science-and-art

Marie Faust Evitt, author of Thinking BIG Learning BIG, has many photos on the Facebook page that show activities involving science concepts in art activities. https://www.facebook.com/thinkingBIGlearningBIG?ref=ts See her book at: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-BIG-Learning-Connecting-Childhood/dp/0876590679/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415985151&sr=1-1&keywords=thinking+big+learning+big

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You can integrate art in numerous ways with science! Such as: having students create a model for any type of life cycle, on observations, about plants, and so. Art does not always have to be students drawing, you can also incorporate painting or a collage of some sort.

Students explore and analyze various ecosystems, the student is expected to create an environment of their own choosing out of cardboard boxes and various art materials, allow the student to be creative and make decisions on their own

Hello, I am very interested in integrating art as much as I can in my future classroom and this website https://www.teachervision.com/art/childrens-science-activities/52562.html seemed to a variety of activities that you could personalize to suite your lessons!

Science is connected with describing and taking notes of what is seen through observations. I think that art can be integrated with many different types of lessons. Students are asked to write about what they see in their science experiments and to connect with those who enjoy drawing, the teacher could have the students also draw and label what they see in their experiments. For further art implementation, the students could recreate what they observed using more than just pencils, markers, and paper. They could use tissue paper, sticks, leaves, or any other kind of material laying around to create their art.

Connecting art with science is a great idea because science is a topic that isn't favored by many students as it is. By connecting it to art and allowing the students to express themselves and their work through art, the students will be engaged. Websites: http://www.kinderart.com/across/index_science.shtml The students can learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and create the butterfly as they learn the different stages. The same can be done with the parts of a plant. The students can even connect a science topic to literacy by reading a book then create a representation of the topic of the book as their art piece,

One art idea that i have seen incorporated with science is using food coloring to make rainbow toast. The students were learning about properties of matter and so the adding of color to the toast changed the color property and when they put the toast in the toaster it changed the texture from soft to rough. They were able to use their creativity and paint the rainbow onto the toast in whatever way they wanted to!

I love the idea of incorporating art in science. My science teachers never did this for me when I was in school, but I am seeing it more and more now. I think it is great for the students because they will have fun while learning about science. I also think it will help them remember and understand the science concepts better since they are physically working with the concepts through art. Great ideas from everyone who has commented! If I find any others I will post them here also.

Combining science and art can sometimes be very east because students are sometimes asked to sketch their observations. So finding ways to integrate art into the lesson can sometimes be easily done it just depends on what aspect of art your going to deal with.

I am currently taking Art for Elementary at the University of Houston. We are always told that you can incorporate art into any academic subject. The students do not necessarily need to draw something in order to consider that as incorporating art. You can have the students create foldables, collages, incorporate painting, and anything else that requires students to use their creativity.

For my lesson plan on animal characteristics and more specifically, camouflage, i was able to integrate both science and art into one. I had the children read a book titled "How do Chameleons Change Color?" and then used the book as a reference to have the students create their own models/drawings of the chameleons. They also explored the benefits of camouflage and how these animals use it. 

I have actually been part of learning about art and science recently in my classes. One great idea was learning about the different parts of a flower but starting to draw it form inside out rather than outside to in. The students draw for inside out because it allows students to concentrate on the little parts and their functions rather. Another idea is having students go on a nature walk and after they can draw their favorite part of the walk and their own interpretation on it. They can also talk about the different aspects of the walk and everything that was in the walk that they saw. 

Hello! I stumbled across one of the articles names Finding the Science in Art by Collen Kelley, Alyce Jordan, and Catherine Roberts. This article is interesting and may give you some pointers! -Stephanie L.

http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2014/02/combining-art-and-science.html

This link has 20 different lessons that combine art and science!

I think that incorporating art into science is extremely important, especially since so many schools cannot afford to have a full-time art teacher. In one of my college courses, I created an art activity that also met a science standard. My lesson plan included teaching kindergarteners about the seasons of the year and, at the end of the lesson, using different art techniques to create what a tree would look like during that season. For the four different seasons, students could make a tree by finger painting, tissue paper and glue, colored pencils, and real leaves that have fallen from trees and glue. The different mediums would provide a variety of art techniques while teaching the science concepts of the seasons. I would suggest learning about one season each week and doing the art project on a Friday!

In a classroom I was helping in, the students were studying leaves. Below is the link to one fun interactive lesson that the teacher did on the structure of a leaf. http://www.kcedventures.com/blog/art-and-science-of-leaf-rubbings-nature-activity There are so many fun activities that involve art that you can use with any science lesson! Just be creative and think outside the box :)

In the past I have done a science activity on Energy in motion by having students group up and giving each group a pie pan with three different colors of tempera paint in it and a lid. Students would then have a marble they would place in the middle and place the lid back on and shake away. That would be when we would discuss energy in motion and connect it with the activity. If you place a round small piece of paper in the middle of the pie pan before you place the paint, than the students can have a visual representation that you could place around the class as a post assessment.

The link below is from Scholastic and they have great projects for integrating art and science together! I usually refer to them first since they pair up with schools for most things that they do. You should check out this link!


http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2012/10/art-integration-easy-ideas-combining-science-and-art

Integrating art with science is a great way to interest your students in their learning! Here is a fun experiment that addresses science and art concepts: http://buggyandbuddy.com/exploring-colors-with-baking-soda-and-vinegar/

This is a great thread, I'm glad it's popped back up. I contributed some ideas above, but since then I wrote a blog post about a Family STEAM night at my school that includes the activities we did. All of them could be used as a regular art/science lesson. http://www.shareitscience.com/2015/06/childrens-steam-festival-family-steam.html Also, I just reviewed a new STEAM book on my blog this past week that has some awesome ideas for this. (Full disclosure, this was a blog post intended to help sell the book, but I genuinely recommend it, and there are links to other articles the authors wrote that have many free resources included at the bottom.) Have fun!

A couple things I thought of were to have your students make an animal of their own, either in 2D or 3D, and then they have to label the parts of their animal and give some information on it such as where it would live or what it would eat. And it definitely needs an original name. The other idea I have is for students to create a 3D ecosystem using a box. They are given a type of area (desert, tropical, frozen) and they have to put things in the box that would be found there like the animals and the types of vegetation.

When I was a TA for a 4th grade class we planted trees for Earth Day and then we had the children write a story accompanied by illustrations. The story had to be a time line of the process of tree growth with what they thought it would look like at each stage they described. After allowing the students to tell their stories we talked about the growth process of different types of trees and what they look like at each stage. The teacher of the class asked the art teacher to do a similar lesson with them in art so that they were integrating their science lesson into their art lesson. The art teacher had the students use scrap paper to make 4 different stages of their trees from their science story illustrations. The best part about the whole thing was that the art teacher was able to move around her lesson plans and was able to incorporate one of their objectives for 4th grade Art; which was symmetry. So the students had to make their trees symmetric but still make sure they some what resembled their science story illustrations.

I am so glad that I found this thread! I would love to be able to integrate art into some of my future science lesson! Thank you so much for these resources.

I love this thread of messages! I can use so many ideas from teachers all over the country! My CT did a cycle of life of a butterfly with pasta, and we made it into a necklace

A few of the upper grades at my school recently constructed earth layer models to show the different layers of the core (crust, mantle, inner core, outer core) and were given some free reign in terms of art medium. For example, some students used the usual foam craft balls and markers, but we welcomed the use of clay, tissue paper, and anything eles they would like as long as they met the criteria. We got some very interesting and creative submissions!

My students were learning the moon phases and we created moons out of styrofoam balls and decorated them with characteristics known about the moon. We then turned off the lights in the classroom and I had a big spot light to represent the sun. They were able to see how the moon goes through waxing and waning phases. They absolutely loved this hands-on activity.

I love the idea of combining science and art! Connects with more learners!

I would do something with a stencil, shaving cream plus food coloring. You would also need a small cut out sheet of paper. The idea of the project is to mix the shaving cream and food coloring together. Then put the stencil over the foam and the paper. Then peel the paper off and it should teach the students about reflection.