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Bear Exploration Center
Bear Exploration Center
Magnet Curriculum
Magnet Curriculum
2024-2025
2024-2025
Visual Arts
Mini STEAM Art Challenge
Mini STEAM Art Challenge
Grade Level:
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades
Content Areas:
Visual Arts and Language Arts
Standards:
Third Grade:
Visual Arts 3.2 Demonstrate skills using available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process
Language Arts 3.5. Express ideas, opinions, and feelings orally in a logical sequence clearly, accurately, and precisely, using appropriate volume, clear pronunciation, and standard English grammar
4th Grade:
Visual Arts 4.3 Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies and techniques to create a work of art/design
Language Arts 4.42. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes, and speaking clearly with adequate volume, appropriate pacing, and clear pronunciation
5th Grade:
Visual Arts 5.3 Communicate personal ideas, images, and themes through artistic choices of media, technique, and subject matter
Language Arts 5.9. Express ideas clearly and effectively to diverse partners or groups
Mini STEAM Art Challenge
Mini STEAM Art Challenge
Objective: Students will create a “mini” work of art that represents one of the S.T.E.A.M. fields and verbally explain what category it represents.
Directions: Students are challenged to create a “mini” work of art that represents one of the S.T.E.A.M. fields using the medium of their choice.
Guidelines: Students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades were challenged to create a “mini” work of art (the size of a dollar bill) that depicts one of the S.T.E.A.M. fields (ASK). Students discussed the different areas of S.T.E.A.M. and collaborated on ways they could represent those areas. Students chose a medium to use for their art (crayons, markers, colored pencils, oil pastels, watercolor paint, modeling clay, etc.) (IMAGINE). Students then sketched out their subject to create a rough draft of their idea (PLAN). Students used their rough draft and chosen supplies to create a work of art (CREATE) making sure to add details and a background (Improve).
They then presented their art explaining what their drawing was of and what area of S.T.E.A.M. it represented (PRESENT).
Several works of art were entered in the M.A. STEAMfest Mini Art Show with 16 winning ribbons and one winning best of show.
Bas Relief with Clay
Bas Relief with Clay
Students chose from several different media to create their STEM related art.
Mixed Media
Mixed Media
Students attended the MA STEAMfest Mini Art Show to see their art on display.
Colored Pencils
Colored Pencils
Bear students won several ribbons in the different art media categories. This student won 1st Place and Best of Show.
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