Science Education Article:
The article that I chose to read was “Arts in Science education” by Dina Izadi. After reading the article I now have a better understanding of how to incorporate arts and science together in the same lesson. Putting art in the classroom is more than just coloring a worksheet about the processes of life or drawing a Bohr model. Including art in the classroom is creating a masterpiece while using scientific concepts and scientific reasoning.
The problem science teachers have/had been incorporating meaningful art into the science classroom. Art that will help students develop a better understanding of science concepts. Not just the coloring sheets about a topic that was taught.
The solution to the problem in the article was to incorporate meaningful art into the classroom that will help the children gain a better understating of the scientific concepts. For example, “A new way to investigate simple periodic motion, such as that of a pendulum, as well as chaotic motion, is to ask students to build their own dolls with arms and legs attached to a rotating connector. The dolls can be built of paper, nonomagnets or any other materials, to investigate the parameters in this motion it is necessary to make the dolls in different shapes. Because students think differently, all these toys will help them to show their individuality in solving problems with their creativity in arts.” The author also suggested creating bridges made out of paper to investigate how much weight the bridges could hold; the teacher would also use that to teach about forces along with resistance. Artists enable people to visualize the sciences in different ways or to apply new ways of thinking.
The purpose of this study was to educate teachers on the importance of incorporating meaningful art into their everyday teacher of science. Teachers might even need extra professional development in the area of integration of the arts. Albert Einstein stated, “The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
The results and conclusions to this study was the implementation of the arts in a science classroom. One science teacher had her students look at nature around them for a certain amount of time; then they were asked to illustrate what they had been seeing. They were also asked to find scientific problems that they saw and analyze them through the arts. Displaying science knowledge through art an also help the children have a deeper understanding of the science materials but art concepts as well.
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