Research On Middle School Chemistry Activities Under The STEAM Concept Of Art Integration

Under the current trend of advocating interdisciplinary integration,Art is being actively integrated into the education of other disciplines.Analyzing the integration of Art into the research of STEAM education,it is found that researchers recognize the many values of Art,but few cases are truly integrated into the process of art appreciation and artistic creation,and Art is rarely combined with other disciplines to solve complex problems.This has led to the fact that Art only plays a small role in cultivating students’ imagination,creativity,and aesthetics.Students’ understanding of Art and other subjects such as Science and Technology is still in a state of fragmentation.Therefore,this paper based on the existing research,to explore ways Art can be incorporated into STEAM activities,and based on the chemical experiment to develop chemistry activities in secondary school.The aim is to provide activity path for STEAM education integrating Art,and to provide experience reference for interdisciplinary aesthetic education integrating chemistry teaching in secondary school.The thesis is based on Experience Learning Theory and Multiple Intelligence Theory.First,it analyzes the current situation of the integration of Art in STEAM education in detail,and summarizes and reflects on the problems that need to be solved.Then it puts forward the design principles of STEAM teaching activities integrating Art,namely embodiment,situational,and generative,and constructs the design path of STEAM teaching activities integrating Art,which is divided into four parts: activity theme analysis,activity goal analysis,activity step design,and activity effect evaluation.Which provides a framework for development activities.Among them,the activity steps include five links: showing-appreciating,exploring-asking,guessing-explaining,innovating-designing,and evaluating-improving,corresponding to the five aesthetic levels of enjoying beauty,exploring beauty,analyzing beauty,creating beauty,and appreciating beauty.According to the activity principles and paths,we have developed some chemical activities in secondary school,such as "The Art of Surface Tension--Colorful Droplets Blooming on Oil Layer","The Art of Electrolytic Reaction--Metal Dendrites Growing on Wood","The Art of Photochemical Reaction--Blue Image under the Sun".With chemical experiments as the main body,it focuses on the connection between Art and Chemistry,expresses the beauty in Chemistry through art forms,integrates scientific inquiry with artistic creation,and involves interdisciplinary knowledge such as mathematical methods,photography technology and installation construction,which naturally integrates various elements of STEAM education into the activities.Before the design of each activity,the experimental ontology research was carried out to deeply understand the experimental principle,operation time,etc.On this basis,the appropriate activity content was determined.The activity was carried out in the school-based curriculum of Chemistry in senior grade one.From the students’ activity performance,works and interview results,the three STEAM activities developed in this paper can promote the change of students’ learning style,increase their interest in learning Chemistry,and help to improve students’ aesthetic ability and deepen their understanding of the relationship between Science and Art.Students not only use rational thought to explore the rules,but also actively mobilize affective thinking to imagine and create,and perceive beauty,appreciate beauty and create beauty in real and profound experiences.They experience the interest and beauty of chemical experiments,and thus love Chemistry more and more actively conduct scientific inquiry.