STEAMed Magazine January 2015 | Page 11

Art creation in CAPE classrooms takes many forms: painting, students to rethink, revise, and re-create/experiment based on sculpting, writing, dancing, acting, photographing, building… new guesses and assumptions. Document CAPE trains teachers and artists on how and why classroom work should be documented- by the students and the educators. CAPE provides cameras, audio recorders, journals, and portfolios to collect student and teacher work from start to finish. Such rigorous documentation is similarly central to scientific investigations, where the careful tracking of conditions, variables, controls, measurements, anomalies, and outcomes is vital in determining the strengths and weakness of a hypothesis and the design of an experiment. By documenting hypotheses, data, and conclusions, students and teachers alike can capture progress over the course of a project. the list goes on