Our Program
Seeds to STEAM offers a complete strategy providing a turn-key solution to Elementary Schools incorporating the visual arts to leverage creativity, promote inclusion and equity, practice collaboration, and ultimately to improve STEAM literacy for all.
STEAM Integrated Curricula
- Week-long units aligned with Common Core Standards (CCSS), Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Technology, and Visual Arts standards.
- Universal Design Learning (UDL)
- Project and Problem Based Learning (PBL): Our units reflect the position, based on current research, that young children learn better by doing.
Teacher Professional Development
- Our Professional Development opportunities have been designed and tested to assist with the design and implementation of STEAM Integrated units.
- The strategy to accomplish a deep understanding of key instructional design components is by deconstructing the curriculum we have created, and by constructing a new one. This is based on the fact that some teachers use top to bottom design, while others use bottom-up.
- Teachers will gain experience in designing new STEAM integrated curriculum once provided with all the tools to design new curriculum, including science content knowledge and visiting scientists in the classroom.
- Our goal is to maximize the collaborative potential of all Elementary School teachers, reduce content knowledge anxiety, and team-building practices.
Classroom Implementation & Support
- Support during implementation
- Improvement support in the areas of pedagogy and content knowledge.
Formative & Longitudinal Evaluations
- Consulting
- Longitudinal Evaluations