Integrating Art and Science Instruction to Build Data Literacy

• In Event: Poster Presentations

Session Submission Type: Poster Presentation

Summary

Data literacy is essential for students to grapple with and think critically about science topics like climate change. Creative instructional approaches can support this development - Building Insights through Observation, a new model for middle school science, uses arts-based approaches to build skills of observing, interpreting, and questioning mapped data.

Sub Unit

• Educating for a Changing Climate

Presenters

• Kathryn Semmens, Nurture Nature Center

• Jessica Sickler, J. Sickler Consulting

Non-Attending Contributors

• Rachel Carr, Nurture Nature Center

• Keri Maxfield, Nurture Nature Center

• Hilary Peddicord, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

• Randy Kochevar, Education Development Group

• Amy Busey, Education Development Center

• Erin Bardar, Education Development Center

• Michelle Lentzner, J. Sickler Consulting