Get Started
The STEMarts Curriculum Tool was created to deepen the student's learning experience by providing a pre-festival resource built around the work of PASEO artists selected for the STEMarts@PASEO Youth Program. It provides STEAM activities, resources and science standard alignments on each visiting artist who inspired students with a behind the scenes talk and demo to share their work and process. The Get Started page is designed to provide some guidelines on how to create unique artist-focused STEAM activities for your classroom using the STEMarts Curriculum tool
Here are some guidelines to get you started:
1. Teacher Explore. Explore the site to become familiar with all the tools and guidelines available to you and your students. The goal of the project is create a meaningful learning experience around the selected PASEO artists and their work.
2. Student Connections. Have your students review the Artist Pages to discover the variety of work represented. Discuss as a class how each artist process is similar or different and how science and technology is incorporated in the work. Have them explore the pages individually to encourage personal reflection and critical thinking. We created activity guides under the Teacher Tools section to facilitate this process and to provide prompts that help make connections between the artists themes, genres and medium.
3. Hands-on STEAM Activity. Review the STEMarts Design Tool for the selected artist. The Design Tool includes a STEAM wiki with links to hands-on science and art activities and research focusing on the artist's theme and technique. Choose an activity to try out with students so that the students have a hands-on experience of the artist's work or process before they visit the school.
4. Teacher and Student Surveys. Once the project is complete and after the festival, you can fill out the surveys to give us feedback on what worked and what did not. Help us improve!