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Science Through Art: Motivating Gifted And Talented Students, Ksenia Zhbanova
Science Through Art: Motivating Gifted And Talented Students, Ksenia Zhbanova
Journal of STEM Arts, Crafts, and Constructions
Gifted and talented students have unique characteristics and needs. Arts Integration is an effective differentiation strategy that helps meeting these students’ needs. STEM subjects are easily and organically integrated with the Arts because scientific and artistic inquiry are very similar. This practical article describes an arts-integrated project that provided the gifted and talented participants with an increased level of challenge, an opportunity for self-expression and for building social skills, amplified motivation, and a chance to deepen and demonstrate their knowledge of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, social studies and English Language Arts. In this project, identified gifted students completed figural transformations …