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Designing a Robot Chicken: Where Art Meets STEAM
Designing a Robot Chicken: Where Art Meets STEAM This week in the art room, we engineered a chicken. Not a fluffy farm chicken. A blocky. Structural. Possibly-ready-for-liftoff robot chicken. And yes — it was one of the best STEAM lessons we’ve done all year. Step One: Think Like an Engineer Before we ever talked about
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Coffee Filter Flower: Capillary Action
Coffee Filter Flowers & Capillary Action A hands-on lesson in how plants drink There’s something magical about watching color travel. In this lesson, students create vibrant coffee filter flowers while exploring one of the most important processes in plant biology: capillary action — the way water moves through tiny spaces without needing gravity to pull
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Pop, Pour, Print! Soda-Pop Powered Lithographic Art
Kitchen Lithography: Printmaking Magic with Soda-Pop (Really!) I love a project that makes students say,“Wait… that worked??” Kitchen lithography is that project. It looks like legit, old-school printmaking… but we’re using foil, soda, and oil like we’re about to cook something instead of make art. It feels slightly unhinged and very science-experiment energy — which
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Discovering the Magic of Color in Nature: Making Paint from Dirt
Discovering Color in Nature: Making Paint from Dirt This week, our art class took a little adventure to our very own “Secret Garden” on campus. With diggers, dump trucks, shovels and spades, we set out to collect dirt from different areas around the garden. We quickly noticed that the soil wasn’t all the same —
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Bridging STEAM and Cognitive Learning: Color Mixing with Bee-Bots!
Bridging STEAM and Cognitive Learning: Color Mixing with Bee-Bots! Recently, we invited parents to join in for a day of fun and learning at school where we showcased the curriculum in color. I was tasked with creating an activity combining technology, cognitive learning, and color. The challenge was to create an activity that ticks all
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Seeing Like an Artist & Thinking Like a Scientist: Observing Insects with Kindies
🐛 Seeing Like an Artist & Thinking Like a Scientist: Observing Insects with Kindies When we teach young children to observe, we’re not just helping them make better drawings—we’re helping them become more curious, thoughtful, and aware of the world around them. And what better subject for observation than insects? Insects are fascinating, tiny, and
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Exploring the Magic of the Rainforest: A Kindergarten Art Adventure!
🌿 Exploring the Rainforest: A Kindergarten Art Adventure This month in kindergarten, we took a deep dive into the lush, colorful world of the rainforest—and we brought it to life right in our classroom with a collaborative mural project that combined art, science, and storytelling. We began our journey with a question:“What animals live in
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Introducing Kids to AI through Art: A Fun Way to Spark Creative Thinking!
🌟 Introducing Kids to AI Through Art: A Fun Way to Spark Creative Thinking! Children are natural artists. They draw, paint, cut, glue, and imagine with fearless creativity. What if we could take that creative spark and combine it with the power of artificial intelligence—not to replace their ideas, but to expand them? Today, AI isn’t just
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Exploring the Colorful World of Minecraft Inspired design and Illustration
🎨 Art Lesson: Create a Minecraft-Inspired Scene with Graph Paper & Geometry! Looking for a fun and engaging way to combine art, math, and a little gaming inspiration? This easy lesson helps students of all ages create their own Minecraft-inspired scene using graph paper and geometric shapes. It’s a perfect project for developing spatial reasoning, practicing precision, and getting creative
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Exploring the Magic of Deserts: Data Collection & visualization and Numeracy in Early Years
🌵 Lesson Plan: Data Collection & Visualization through Desert Habitats Target age: 5–6 yearsDuration: 30–40 minutesLearning Areas: Science, Numeracy, Geography, IB PYP Sharing the Planet Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, students will: Activity worksheet: the learners filled in the number of “raindrops” to represent their understanding of numbers and how much rain
Rebecca
Growing creative, confident global thinkers through art and design.
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