Integrated Science/Art Grant

The goals of our grant with the Harvest Foundation was to reach each 9^th grader with visual literacy training that could be applied during their four years at Hale, as well as integrate art projects into the existing curriculum.

Science Box Activity

This first activity introduced basic procedures involved in scientific inquiry as well as concepts describing the nature of science. The teacher used a numbered cube to involve students in asking a question—What is on the bottom?—and the students proposed an explanation based on their observations.

The students then engaged in a complex cube that asked them to use available evidence for their hypothesis.

Finally, students designed a ceramic cube that could be exchanged and used for evaluation.

Completed Student Boxes

The Energy and Matter Science Museum

Students also learned about balance in art and how it applies to posters they are assigned in science, as well as other classes they take at Hale. Pairs of students created a poster answering a question that applied matter and energy concepts to an overarching environmental theme. Curators set up the museum out of 4 feet by 8 feet Styrofoam panels, connected together to make rooms. They then hung the posters in the appropriate rooms of the museum.

The museum had a successful opening on the evening of November 5, where students and parents toured the exhibit, learning about matter and energy.