STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) and the Arts

Enhance your students’ understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) through the arts. Young Audiences programs use the arts to give students a different way to explore a concept, helping to build confidence and develop critical thinking skills.  Enhance the lessons already being taught with a meaningful art activity which reinforces direct teaching of science content.

Professional Development

Young Audiences professional development programs provide educators with integrated arts-based learning strategies that infuse high quality arts education into math and science curriculum.

• Science
  • Dancing with Newton: Understanding Physics Through Dance (Professional Development)
    Physical Sciences Standard
• Math
  • It All Adds Up: Music and Math Facts (Professional Development)
    Number, Number Sense, and Operations Standard
  • From Geometry to Escher: Teaching Tessellations in Math and Art (Professional Development)
    Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
  • The Stick Dance Math Cooperative (Professional Development)
    Patterns, Functions and Algebra Standard
  • Up, Up and Away! The Art, Science and Geometry of Making and Flying Kites (Professional Development)
    Earth and Space Standard, Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard

Workshops and Performances

Young Audiences offers programs in dance, theater, visual art and music that support learning in the STEM subjects.

• Science
  • Dinosaur Fables (2-4)
    Life Sciences Standard
  • The Science of Choreography (K-8)
    Physical Sciences Standard
  • Are We Trees? Murals (5-12)
    Life Sciences Standard
  • Children of the Eagle and The Quetzal (6-12)
    Life Sciences Standard
  • Fixing a Shadow: Beginning Photography with Pinhole Cameras (4-12)
    Physical Sciences Standard, Science and Technology Standard
  • Gaia: A Tribute to Mother Earth (5-12)
    Earth and Space Sciences Standard, Scientific Ways of Knowing Standard
  • Glass Fusion (5-12)
    Physical Sciences Standard
  • Glass Fusion Murals (4-12)
    Physical Sciences Standard
  • Let’s Fly a Kite! (4-12)
    Earth and Space Sciences Standard
  • Theater Electric! (4-6)
    Physical Sciences Standard
  • TV Commercials: Dramatic Activities to Communicate Scientific Inquiry (3-5)
    Scientific Inquiry Standard, Earth and Space Sciences Standard, Life Sciences Standard
  • The Water Cycle (2-5)
    Earth Science Standard
• Technology
  • The Musical Computer (K-12)
    Science and Technology Standard
• Engineering
  • Vault of Secret Dreams (6-12)
    Mathematical Processes Standard, Measurement Standard, Data Analysis and Probability Standard
• Math
  • Vault of Secret Dreams (6-12)
    Mathematical Processes Standard, Measurement Standard, Data Analysis and Probability Standard
  • Music & Math: It All Adds Up (K-4)
    Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard
  • Balloonetics Performance (K-6)
    Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
  • Balloonetics Workshop (K-6)
    Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
  • Creating Tessellations in Math, Geometry, and Art (5-10)
    Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
  • Deepening the Understanding of Symmetry with Mosaics (5-10)
    Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard
  • Kalinka — Exploring Music and Math through Russian Folk Song (1-6)
    Patterns, Functions and Algebra Standard, Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard
  • Math in Motion (K-6)
    Patterns, Functions and Algebra Standard
  • Symmetry, Patterns and Geometry Meet the Mosaic (3-12)
    Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard

Click here to check out our Summer Institute 2011 Resource Page for more STEAM resources.

For questions or to schedule a program, please call 216-561-5005 or email requests@yaneo.org.