Bring Full STEAM Ahead! & Build Me a Story to your School
Learn how to integrate the arts into your STEM subjects to create a more meaningful experience. Our approach fosters creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. 

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In small collaborative groups, participants will be asked to engage and persist in dance and movement related problem solving. 

This kinesthetic approach is interactive as it merges coding and technology with physical activities and movement and leads participants through a process where they create a short simple dance that illustrates the connections. 

Choreography, like coding, is an algorithm, or a set of instructions. Coding consists of variables that have specific attributes or characteristics. The variables can be represented in movement with thematic choreographed choices. 

Teaching Artists Kim Ratliff and Harlan Brownlee introduce participants to movement strategies that make the connections between choreography, variables, and the algorithm and draw parallels to the 21st Century learning skills sets, commonly referred to as the 4C’s of Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication.
  • Understand the relationship between choreography and coding, given that both are algorithms or sets of specific steps using variables.
  • Make the connections with this teaching approach and the integral components of the necessary 21st century skills of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.
  • Appreciate dance, and other art forms, as viable methods to help students achieve higher level thinking skills.
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Full STEAM Ahead! 
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Build Me a Story:  The Intersection of Engineering and Storytelling 
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What do you get when you cross classic fairy tales, fables, and engage a child’s innate desire to create and learn through storytelling?  Teaching Artist's Kim Ratliff and Harlan Brownlee present a STEAM arts integrated approach that can transform learning for your students. Learn how to take back to your classroom storytelling elements, tableaus, engineering problem-solving through recreation of story setting, and using narrative as a dramatic tool with movement and dance. A STEAM arts integrated classroom provides the opportunity for your students to develop the essential skills of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

Come prepared to move and get your creative juices flowing!

  • Understand the relationship between storytelling, student engagement, and dance and movement related problem-solving.
  • Make the connections with an arts integrated approach and developing the essential 21st Century skills of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.
  • Appreciate dance, and other art forms, as viable methods to help students achieve higher level thinking skills.
Integrate the Arts in STEM Subjects