SCHOOL WIDE STEAM PROPOSALS

Proposal One:

Produce a documentary on Apollo 11 (50th anniversary)

Example:

Art= Students produce an art project directly related to the historical event, i.e. an art collage, etc. Students can produce a documentary video about the landing, and interview teachers and others who saw the landing on tv and what they felt seeing the landing, etc.

History= Students study the cultures of America contrasted with Russia and write about the space race.

Science= Students study the physics of rocketry of the mission.

Technology= Students learn and compare past technology with present and take a field trip to the National Air & Space Museum in D.C.

Math= Students study the physics of the mission and produce an information banner that shows the math needed throughout the mission. The amount of rocket fuel per staging, the mass to movement ratio as the rocket got lighter, the amount of fuel to lift off the moon, etc. The banner could be designed by the art dept.

Engineering= Construct a scaled down version of the lunner land model.

Proposal Two:

Students Produce a series of mini STEAM projects that are quick and easy to do related to great works of art, architecture, sculpture, music, and classical literature along with language and world cultures.

Example 0ne:

This could also include the study of language and linguistics as it relates to our culture verses more primitive cultures such as the Rendille in the northern Kenya desert, or remote villages in Papua New Guinea. All of the STEM subjects can be built into the project in a more indirect manner, i.e. math= distance and time ratios to getting to locations Technology= the study of cultural elements and history produced in tour using thinglink software. Science= resources of plants and animal life found only within these remote areas of the world.

Example two:

Students study Edvard Munch’s The Scream painting. History= the time period and culture, Math= Golden ratio, Science= color and how the eye works with interpreting color within the painting, Technology= Create a tab on the art web site that is a tour of Edvard Munch and his life and the history of the painting using thing link software. Engineering, produce a augmented image of the painting or an on line tour of the image using thinglink software.

This project can be applied to every form of art, wether it be a painting, a classical writer, a piece of music, architecture, etc. These are projects that can be easily produced in as little as one week. It would be best to produce one project from each artistic discipline.

Proposal Three:

Produce a documentary on the Colonial Cemetery as well as a website that acts as a tour of the cemetery for the city of Savannah’s website.

Example:

Art = An exhibition of student art related to the cemetery depicting current day photographs with photos from the past. Student tomb or grave rubbings showing texture and the design of gravestones. Student drawings of the cemetery as contemporary art as well as collages forming images of the past as a history mural. Students recreate characters who are buried there and are filmed as a piece of theatre to go into the documentary involving wardrobe, culture of the fashion, etc.

History (Georgia and American) = Information on who is buried there. In depth research on the three signers of the Declaration of Independence that are buried there. This history of duels from those who are buried there. The history of the cemetery from 1750 to 1850. (Yellow fever victims, slaves, Union occupied, etc.

Science = The cultural means of treating a cadaver. The difference between deep comas verses death as many supposed dead individuals woke up in their graves. The science of the earth as related to cemeteries. The mausoleum was built as an above ground grave because of water tables that would push bodies up to the surface. The first mausoleums were in New Orleans then Savannah. The science of decomposition. The science of Yellow Fever and how it was treated or not treated. The history of yellow fever in Savannah and how the epidemic was handled, etc.

Technology = Students produce a website that is posted for a year on the internet as a documentary for tourists, The City of Savannah Tourism Dept. and as a STEAM project. Students learn iMovie, thinglink software, squarespace software, photoshop, and editing software in order to produce a tour of the cemetery.

Math & Engineering = Understanding scale of the cemetery with over 9,000 people buried there. The math of building a mausoleum, i.e. how many bricks are needed? The math of how many Union soldiers actually pitched their tents in the cemetery according to the tombstones that were removed to make room for the tents and then later embedded on the back wall of the cemetery? The math of how many people, on average, were buried there every year? The math of the square feet of the cemetery to how many feet one walks before standing above the nearest grave? (Inches or feet?)

Proposal Four:

Produce an exhibition on sharks that reveal as many aspects as possible using STEAM.

Proposal Five

Produce a documentary and exhibition on The Weeping Time (the famous sale of 413 slaves in Savannah) using STEAM.

Proposal Six:

Produce a documentary on all the various ships that come into the Savannah port, from French Frigates in the 1700’s to cargo ships of today using STEAM.

Proposal Seven:

Produce a documentary on turtles and how many are born each year on Tybee using STEAM.

Proposal Eight:

Produce a documentary on civil rights as it related to Savannah in its history to the present day incorporating the dark history of racism, slavery, etc. using STEAM.

Proposal Nine:

A product based proposal of building cell phone stands from design to marketing using STEAM.

Proposal Ten:

Deconstruct a famous symphony like Pictures at an Exhibition, a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

Proposal Eleven:

Adopt a fire station, and produce a documentary on the history of firemen in Savannah going back to the original Freemen slaves firemen. Produce a documentary on the project using STEAM.

Proposal Twelve:

Plants-Pots-Art

Using the green house at IHS, produce plants to go into clay hand painted pots. Sell the creations using a web site etc.

Proposal Thirteen:

MEET THE MASTERS

Twelve masters are discovered by students

3 great painters

3 great writers

3 great scientists

3 great businessmen

Each master is taught by overlapping STEM Plus subjects.