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3 KEY OUTDOOR TIPS
1. Less is more: Limit yourself to a single pen, pencil, sharpener and eraser, stored in a travel toothbrush case, like I do. Or, carry a small kit of watercolors and a watercolor brush. You don't want to be making lots of choices, carrying supplies you don't need, and worrying about loosing them.
2. Notebook: Typically, one small or medium-sized sketchbook is plenty unless you're going on a long trip. My favorite hardback sketchbooks are made by Stillman & Birn, and I also like slim paperback books with multimedia paper for toting in my purse.
3. Know your tools. Practice in comfortable controlled environments, so you know how your supplies work. Then, you can go outside with confidence, knowing you have only what you need, and that you haven't forgotten something important.
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Artful Science
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 "Close observation is the first step in any scientific inquiry, and to my mind, there is no better way to observe than to try to draw what you are looking at," says Barrett Klein, a trained artist and entomologist who prepares specimens and displays at the American Museum of Natural History.
 "Even if you are a poor artist, when you take pencil to paper and just draw the line--not even the shading--you begin to appreciate each structure and understand it better." |
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Research results:
Art in science classrooms = improved student outcomes
"Students in arts-integrated classrooms are more creative, positively challenged, and more engaged in their schoolwork than those not in arts-integrated classrooms." Report from Kennedy Center for Education
"Cutting-edge studies in neuroscience have been further developing our understanding of how arts strategies support crucial brain development in learning." President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities report
And yet, integrating the arts into classrooms can be overwhelming for teachers with limited arts training. Want to get started? Contact me, or...
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