Danielle Dornsife

Dornsife’s innovative teaching idea, “The Science and Art Connection,” focuses on capturing the creativity of kindergarteners by allowing them to create music, dance and visual art to represent their understandings of disciplinary core ideas. During an earth science unit, students will share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. In the physical unit, they will conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths and directions of pushes and pulls on an object. In the life unit, they will create a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and their habitats.  Dornsife believes children have active imaginations and are willing to tackle any challenge set before them. With the Voya grant this project will capture that creativity by allowing students to partake in process art.