STEAM Teaching and Learning Through the Arts and Design

<p>In this book award-winning art educator Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt offers user-friendly approachable strategies for STEAM planning instruction and assessment to help cultivate PK-12 students' full potential and draws from wide-ranging artists and designers to help you develop inspired creative approaches to teaching STEAM in your classroom.</p> <p>Beginning with the basics and best practices of STEAM planning instruction and assessment Sickler-Voigt then encourages readers to move <i>full steam ahead </i>with chapters based around diverse contemporary and historical artists and designers. In helping you to explore the interdisciplinary connections between Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics Sickler-Voigt identifies strategies to build off from STEM subjects to form authentic well-designed and age-appropriate learning tasks that encourage your students to make deep connections and learn subject matter in context through art media and technologies.</p> <p>Each chapter includes flexible choice-based classroom resources-with tips for adapting to different grade levels-and STEAM amplifiers which fuse contextual learning on artists and designers with real-world STEAM topics to spark student learning and ignite creative approaches to planning instruction and assessment.</p> <p>Featuring 150 visually stunning full-color images this book fuses tried-and-true best practices with highly applicable instructional models inspired by artists and STEAM professionals ideal for PK-12 teachers and STEAM specialists.</p>