# How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience

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# How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience by Katrina Schwartz via KQED news

PODCAST LINK: [https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/storiesteachersshare/2019/10/ThirdGradersCanShowWhatTheyKnowThroughArtQC.mp3](https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/storiesteachersshare/2019/10/ThirdGradersCanShowWhatTheyKnowThroughArtQC.mp3)

EXCERPT: "_When I visited Maya Lin, an elementary school in Alameda, California where art is at the center of learning, third graders were in the middle of a multi-week project on climate change. Pairs of students had chosen climates around the world and researched them to learn about the weather, flora and fauna._

_In art class, they created artistic representations of their climates using either a torn-paper collage technique or oil pastels. They also wrote books about how climate change will affect their climates and the animals that live there. In the process, they learned what fossil fuels are, where they come from, and how they’re extracted. They studied how the greenhouse gas effect works and made a visual model of it._

_One boy, John, showed me his model and described the science behind it._" - Katrina Schwartz

LINK TO FULL STORY INCLUDING PODCAST:

> **[How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience | KQED](https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54370/how-art-can-help-center-a-students-learning-experience?fbclid=IwAR1rWfT4U-n3mGThxEuNWvQ7HpykMLkiPxOaHjPKAO8R2njmj9XCwRBlUQI)**
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> Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through arts integration are seeing kids thrive.