2/5/19 Science/Visual Arts Meeting Notes

Science and Visual Arts met together. We focused on how we support students in revisiting and revising work in each of our disciplines (and the similarities in how we develop that skill). Kara shared a lesson from 9th grade chemistry (Does the mass of steel wool depend on the shape?), Jeremiah shared about how he is using standards and grading in his art class to encourage students to revisit their work and know “when is it done?”. We broke into high school and middle school groups to discuss in more depth and went beyond the initial question to discover many layers of similarities between the work of each discipline and what we are trying to get students to learn in our classes. We discussed how helping students see these similarities could help, for example, a student who feels comfortable in art class but feels their science or math teacher should “just tell them things” see how the work they are being asked to do is similar and transfer some of their approach from one class to the other.

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