STEAM POWER FOR EDUCATORS

Tree Time: Through a dynamic collage making process, children experience the life cycle of story character Walter, a decaying water oak.  They also learn about other types of oak trees and the environments where they grow.

What’s for Dinner? Children explore the food webs and chains of backyard ecosystems through an interactive information gathering process.  The lesson culminates with children collaboratively creating large backyard food pyramids.

Backyard Magic: Children follow a step-by-step landscape planning process to create simple backyard designs that are teaming with life.  Along the way, they learn about backyard plant placement and plants that attract wildlife.

Marvelous Mandalas: Children explore their favorite backyard plants and animals and how they are interconnected.  Then children create circular designs called mandalas that express their personal backyard worlds.

Flash Fiction: Children examine the backyard setting and characters of The Adventures of Shiko and Walter, while learning about key elements of story telling.  Then children write and illustrate their own short backyard tales.

Let’s Boogie: Children read excerpts from The Adventures of Shiko and Walter stories, practice how Shiko and animal characters move, then perform short choreodramas of action scenes.

Story Time: (On-Site) I share backyard wildlife and plants found in The Adventures of Shiko and Walter stories through interactive show, touch and tell, and movement exercises.