This document provides information about a STEAM exhibition being organized at Westminster Schools. It challenges teachers to create projects that investigate connections between STEAM subjects and demonstrate student knowledge through visual displays. The exhibition will take place in February/March in Broyles Gallery and other venues. Teachers have the fall semester and start of spring to plan projects, which can be individual or collaborative efforts. The document discusses intersections between art and science and provides examples of how art can illustrate scientific concepts. It also provides guidance on what constitutes integrating art into lessons and offers technology resources to support project development.

1. NEED TO KNOW
THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS
STEAM
http://bit.ly/18ZIfoh

2. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and
Mathematics
STEAM is the integration
of study in the areas of:

3. Challenge to Teachers
● Challenge to Teachers: Create a project
that investigates the thinking between
STEAM subject areas and engage your
students in creatively demonstrating this
knowledge to the school community in the
form of visual display.

4. An Invitation
● To make this one of your hallmark projects,
exploring new subjects, new materials,
processes, and technology.
●
● Getting the most benefit from doing this as a
collective, collaboratively.

5. WHERE?
The STEAM group of teachers will work
together to create a multi-department, multi-
divisional themed show which will occupy all of
Broyles Gallery.
Depending on the number of projects, other
venues may also be utilized for the duration of
the exhibit, and projects can be designed with a
specific “satellite” venue in mind.

6. WHEN?
The current goal for the STEAM exhibition is
that it will take place late February, Early
March. The exact exhibition schedule still
needs to be set by the Art Department during
Faculty Forum.
What is known is that teachers will have the
entire Fall semester and beginning of Spring to
plan and execute their projects.

7. HOW CAN I BE INVOLVED?
Teachers may develop and exhibit a lesson:
● In collaboration with another STEAM
member.
● On their own receiving feedback from the
group.
● With an academic classroom, a homeroom,
an extracurricular student group, an
independent study, or any other format.
● Or only offer feedback to the projects of
others.

8. AFTER TODAY WHAT WILL WE DO?
In the Upper School, we will make use of non-
departmental PLC times to continue meeting
throughout the year.
During this time we will present ideas for
lessons and display, getting feedback from the
group.

9. INTERSECTION OF ART
AND SCIENCE

10. ● Science can inform the creation of Art. The
better the understanding the richer/more
nuanced the artwork.
● Art can be used to bring (clarify) scientific
concepts to an audience (ie. students).

11. Intersection:
Art & Science as Way of Thinking
● Observation
● Communication
● Fundamental notion of design
● Visual-spatial skills
● Learning, experimentation, feedback,
refining

12. Intersection: Content
● Biology: Visual perception/cognitive science
● Biology: Perception of beauty/evolution
● Physics: Perspective/Color/Light
● Chemistry: Color/materials/preservation
● Medicine: Synesthesia/medical outcomes
● Medical visualization/illustration

13. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

14. Hunter Cole: Living Drawings

15. Her Process: Bioluminescent Bacteria

16. Her Process: Protein Music

17. Biological Concepts
● Bacterial Growth
● Bioluminescence (ATP, cellular respiration)
● DNA Structure
● Protein Sequence/ amino acid structure
● Polar molecules/hydrophobic/hydrophilic

18. Susan Anker, Difference and Repetition, 2000
Computer Generated Foam on Acrylic and Plexiglass

19. Anatomy Cross Section Made with Quilled Paper
Lisa Nilsson 2012

20. Elizabeth Jameson, Art Activist
Kaleidoscope," digital collage of hand-pulled solarplate
etchings, based on Axial, Coronal, and Saggital MRI
views of the artist's brain.

21. ART
-What does it mean to incorporate ART into
your lesson?

22. The use of traditional art materials: clay, paint,
pencil, or photography alone does not ensure
that you have integrated art into your
curriculum!

23. Art is about thinking, and the
expression of this thinking through
visual form.
Of course there are plenty of examples that do
this with traditional artistic materials:
Images: William Kentridge

24. ART= MAKING THINKING VISIBLE
For our purposes it could be described as the
question: How do we Make (Learning) Visible
to our community in the form of creative
display?
Students can be involved with figuring out this
question, and this process itself will contribute
to their learning.

25. There are many examples where an artwork
can be created without traditional materials.
Explosions in a work by Cai Guo Qiang.

26. Taxidermy animals and glass in a work by Cai Guo Qiang.

27. Anything Can be used to make art.
Cars and Lights in a work by Cai Guo Qiang

28. Packing Peanuts in an endless waveform by
Dan Steinhilber

29. Coathangers in a artwork by Dan Steinhilber

30. Artwork can require audience participation
or be in the form of a performance
Whispering Gallery, Grand Central Station

31. Someone speaks into a corner, and due to the
acoustics of the room can be heard, even at
whispering volume only in the opposing corner
of the large atrium.

32. Seems like a pretty good project for a Physics
teacher (hint hint, that should be fairly easy to
recreate following this simple diagram in
Broyles Gallery ;)

33. Artwork can be in the form of Design, and be
about creatively presenting information.
Similar Diversity Project

35. Graphic created to convey how much water is used to
produce certain products by The Virtual Water Project.

36. Technology
s(T)eam

37. s(T)eam

38. Project Booth

39. Opportunities in Partnership

40. Integration Team:
Partnership in Innovation
IS Team Partnership
Digital Tools
Organize,
Project Mgt.
Curating,
Recording
Materials,
Training
Process
Project

41. Resources
As you explore, develop and design your
project reach out to us for available resources,
and ideas.

42. NEW SIS
M
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Storage
on
new
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ollaboration

43. Transparent Display

44. Transparent Display

45. 3D Printers
Home: Love Hall 13
Owner: Marlene Getzendanner
STEAM, Art Dept, Design Thinking
Tinker/CAD Training

46. 3D Printers
Home: Love Hall 13
Owner: Marlene Getzendanner
STEAM, Art Dept, Design Thinking
Tinker/CAD Training

47. Organization Tool Collaboration
-Wiki

48. A Short Survey
Please fill out page 1 of the
following google Form:
Steam Brainstorm Form