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Kelton, Jeb P. Owen, AnaMaria Diaz Martinez, Alison White, Robert W. Danielson, Patricia Butterfield, Michaela Fallon, and Georgia  \nSchafer Medina  \nInterest is growing among out-of-school time (OST) educators in integrating the arts into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programming (e.g., Kelton & Saraniero, 2018) . Arts-integrated STEM—or STEAM—programming now takes place in a wide variety of OST environments, from relatively institutional learning settings, such as a library, to emergent or fluid settings, such asa pop-up program in a housing development community room.  \nELIZABETH GRACE is a graduate research assistant in the College of Education at Washington State University Spokane. MOLLY L. KELTON, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Education at Washington State University Pullman. JEB P. OWEN, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Entomology at Washington State University Pullman. ANAMARIA DIAZ MARTINEZ is an associate professor and human and family development regional specialist at Washington State University Extension.  \nALISON WHITE is an assistant professor and youth development regional specialist at Washington State University Extension.  \nROBERT W. DANIELSON, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Education at Washington State University Spokane. PATRICIA BUTTERFIELD, PhD, is dean emerita at the College of Nursing and professor emerita at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University Spokane. MICHAELA FALLON is a medical student in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University Spokane. GEORGIA SCHAFER MEDINA is a medical student in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University Spokane.  \nEducators often consider OST environments to increase engagement in STEM (Diamond et al. , 2015; be conducive to creative and conceptually ambitious Graham & Brouillette, 2016; Peppler & Glosson, STEAM programming because these spaces have the 2013), improve access for groups underrepresented in potential to deconstruct rigid boundaries between dis- STEM (Ludwig et al. , 2017; Peppler, 2013), improve  \nciplines that formal education often reinforces. learning outcomes (Graham & Brouillette, 2016; Ja  \nFor the past several years, our team has been de- cobson et al. , 2016; Thuneberg et al. , 2018), and cresigning and studying STEAM programs in OST settings ate a platform for understanding and communicating as part of the Health Education through Arts-Based about social and scientific issues (Allina, 2018; Peppler Learning (HEAL) collaborative. The HEAL collabora- & Wohlwend, 2018; Sochacka et al. , 2016) .  \ntive is a team of interdisciplinary researchers including This study explores the possibility that arts inuniversity faculty and graduate students with diverse tegration can support systems thinking. A crucial expertise in STEAM education, health sciences, human but challenging scientific practice, systems thinking development, youth programming, educational psy- involves the ability and propensity to make sense of chology, and biomedical education. Our team includes complex scientific phenomena by attending to mula visual artist and several additional consulting visual tiple interacting elements across micro to macro scales artists. HEAL works in partnership with Latinx com- and exploring how these elements take part in a cohemunities in rural-agricultural Washington to increase sive whole. For example, the human body is a complex STEAM education opportunities that blend visual arts system composed of multiple interacting subsystems—with health sciences. We develop programs that inte- the digestive system, the circulatory system, and so on. grate art into STEM learning to These systems, in turn, are com  \npromote expanded conceptual posed of multiple interacting or  \nunderstanding of STEM content. Although systems ","cbCaimcyhzuL5eAu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimcyhzuL5eAu","pdf",304114,"English","# Overview\n## Arts-integrated STEM in OST environments\n## HEAL collaboration and program aim\n## Systems thinking as a focus\n# Arts Integration and Systems Thinking\n## Rationale for blending STEM and arts\n## Components of systems thinking","[{\"question\":\"Why are out-of-school time educators integrating arts into STEM programs?\",\"answer\":\"They seek higher engagement, improved access for groups underrepresented in STEM, stronger learning outcomes, and ways to understand and communicate social and scientific issues.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the HEAL collaborative do in relation to STEAM education?\",\"answer\":\"HEAL is an interdisciplinary team that partners with rural-agricultural Latinx communities to increase STEAM education opportunities that blend visual arts with health sciences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article connect arts integration to systems thinking?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that incorporating visual arts can help learners make sense of complex scientific phenomena by attending to multiple interacting elements across scales.\"}]","Integrating Arts with STEM to Foster Systems Thinking | PDF",1792070991,23]