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Using art to teach science, let kids act it out

September 8, 2017 Ticia 11 Comments

I remember very distinctly an art project we did in 4th grade. We sat there with a brown paper bag, and we worried at it, and crumpled it, and generally abused the paper bag until it had a texture similar to leather. This was then tied into the Native American living in California and how they tanned hides and used them for all sorts of projects. When you bring other subjects (like art) into your lessons kids remember it better, so remembering this lesson from my childhood I decided to use art to teach science in our science lessons a few years ago.

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 Using Art to teach science

This week learned what to do if you meet a bear in the wilderness as a small part of our Apologia Land Animals lesson*.

combining art and science

After reading the material, we opened up our notebooking pages* and saw we were supposed to draw what to do.  The kids happily drew pictures of what to do, and made their poster,  but I wanted to make sure they remembered it.  Besides I had a fun project pinned on my land animals board.

A few years ago over at Almost Unschoolers she shared about making a bear cave, a great example of using art to teach science.  I stored it away and pulled it out this year.

 

create a paper bag bear cave

We pulled out paper bags, colored, cut, stapled and………..

 

exploring science through art

Created our very own paper bag bear caves.  Yes those are all bears, these are not the dogs you are looking for…………..

 

And we used art to teach science.  The kids loved acting it out.

 

act out your science lesson

I especially love Princess’ expression as she demonstrates yelling and hitting the bear to surprise it.

Now, we’ve got a fun short term toy to add into our play, and they remember what to do if they ever meet a bear.

A few more fun hands on science ideas for you

why does jupiter have a big red spot
life classification mnemonic
farm animals unit

 

Let’s see what others did this week:

I used to run a weekly science linkie, and these are some of the great links that had been shared.

Finding the Teachable Moments shared a great unit on the Sun with us.  I loved some of her reading activities that went with this science unit.

 

Highhill Homeschool shared some great videos about blood cells (no great picture to share from the post) and a slew of other anatomy videos.  Give her some love ya’ll, she’s got a lot going on right now and still manages to post great stuff.

arts and crafts kid crafts, land animals, Science Sunday, zoology

Comments

  1. Tanya says

    September 9, 2012 at 9:59 am

    Thank you for spotlighting our Sun Unit! I was so surprised to see my little guy’s face here when I popped over to link up 🙂

    I love all the hands on learning your kids had this week. Looks like they had lots of fun!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 9, 2012 at 10:24 pm

      They really did, I need to think of more ways to do this 🙂

  2. Priya says

    September 9, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    I was so surprised to see my electromagnet in you spotlight light. Thank you so much.

    This is a wonderful way to encourage a lot of science.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 9, 2012 at 10:24 pm

      I enjoyed your post a lot, and thought it was well done. I actually had a lot of really great posts last week, it was hard to choose the ones I did.

  3. Wonder Mom says

    September 9, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    Congratulations on using a “pin” from your Pinboard! I know I always actually feel like I’ve “accomplished” something when I do that…it makes me feel like all the time I spend on Pinterest is justified… ;0)

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 9, 2012 at 10:25 pm

      I do too, it’s a big sense of accomplishment.

  4. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    September 9, 2012 at 6:52 pm

    What a cute craft! I have yet to try a single one of the gazillion ideas I have pinned. They’re still there, though!

    Did you make the superhero doll one of your boys is playing with? Am I vaguely remembering a post about that?

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 9, 2012 at 10:34 pm

      I did make it. And good memory, there’s actually a couple of posts about it, but the post sharing it originally is here: https://adventuresinmommydom.org/mailboxes-and-dolls/

      I LOVE that pattern, and have made so many of them. They’re so much fun to make.

      I don’t even want to think of the outrageously large number of pins I have that I haven’t even attempted.

  5. Almost Unschoolers says

    September 9, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    What to do if you meet a bear – run, and hope the guy you’re with is slower than you. That’s what they teach us in Montana, anyway 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 9, 2012 at 10:35 pm

      Ha ha ha ha, that’s certainly what I would have thought.

  6. Bri says

    September 10, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    What a great craft/learning idea! This would be great to do with my kiddos I nanny for, and Ava once she’s older!

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