Butterflies and Frida Kahlo
Butterfly Symmetry, Camouflage, and Disguise
A great lesson to put students’ knowledge of the REAL primary colors of paints to use. Challenge students to create a butterfly using symmetry which uses either camouflage or disguise as a survival technique.
Read MoreGlue Sponge
Try out this solution for messy glue bottles – use a glue sponge instead. Endorsed by the teachers at Stephen F. Austin STEM Academy in Texas.
Read MoreFrida
This picture book (available in both English and Spanish) details Frida Kahlo’s life with some amazing lessons about art and life.
Read MoreVery Hungry Caterpillar
A great story about a caterpillar but beware of inaccuracies to the real butterfly life cycle.
Read MoreCaterpillar to Butterfly
A very accurate book about the life cycle of the butterfly from National Geographic.
Read MoreTucson Botanical Gardens
Our host for this workshop, we enjoyed the Frida Kahlo exhibit throughout the gardens and the Butterfly Magic exhibit in the greenhouse.
Read MoreSeven Essential Life Skills
From the Mind in the Making book, these are the essential life skills we want students to develop.
Read MoreSTEMAZing Journal Hack
Make graph paper STEMAZing journals that require no staples or tape using an old bookbinding trick.
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