STEAMed Magazine April 2016 | Page 44

FROM THE FIELD STEAM on a Shoestring Budget Bringing Conservation and The Scientific Process into the Art Room with a Recycle Engineering Challenge Erin Price Guiding middle school students to reflect and grow through artistic process can be tough – at least, that is, until they push past the abstract to acquire constructive criticism and metacognition skills necessary for revision and maximum growth. My students increase artistic skills in jaw-dropping bounds over nine-week or se