Welcome to LarkLearningSTEM 3D Design Creativity
Foundations: STEM + Arts Skills for Learning 3D Design
Discovery
Using power of observation and patterns in nature, LARK Learning makers discover as they build - and test - how their original piece works in a proposed environment. Nature, light and motion are all key factors in Lark Learning at home via Zoom or outdoors in yard, park or playground.
Library Maker Space or School Pod ZOOM, or outdoor classroom.
PROGRAMS for 2023-24
*PreK - Gr. 2 Story & STEM ecosystem themes from around the world
*STEM Gardens - Planting with Purpose & Family Trail Tales Story Pages
*Grades. 2- -5 Code and Design 3D model and print with BlocksCAD
*Outdoors - Walk 'n Sketch Observation Skills Building at parks & trails
Hands on Learning Skills It's NOT about Perfection
Designing and building for the best purpose and results require testing and tweaking original work to produce positive results, and sometimes happy discoveries are made along the way. The STEM Engineering Process of Identifying the Challenge, Sketching it Up, Exploring Materials, 2D Modeling by hand, 3D Design, Rendering Prototypes, Testing and Tweaking are all part of the Lark Learning Process. Courage to 'Ideate' isn't easy at any age. Whether designing 3D models on the computer screen, or interpreting shapes and movement from sketches or interactive parts - for LarkLearners it's the power of observation, and ability to bring one's own originality to an object of 3D output made from one's own hands and minds that makes it a genuine design experience.
Exploration
Studying classic prototypes such as da Vinci's 'Rotor Copter' and other paper models allow kids to learn 'hands on' how things move and fly. LARK Learning Makers focus on the hows and whys of their models, and brainstorm uses as they record in their own way what works and doesn't work. History of a design, the ways prototypes have been used, purposes today and impact on the future are all part of the Lark process.
Preparing for computer design using BlocksCAD software (using intuition to build 'blocks' of code) rendering 2D and 3D projects, Lark Learners study patterns in nature and make prototypes from recycled materials, crafts, wood, foam core, card stock, LED lights, foil, wax paper, cardboard, paint, rubber stamps, pipe cleaner, markers, tape, paper clips, brad clips, hinges and all kinds of paper. Folding, studying movement key.
Originality
Lark Learners discover the cycle of living things and the natural balance of habitats. From meadow pollinators to the Amazon jaguar, from ocean to inland, from mountain to forest, students learn STEAM (STEM + Arts) concepts from LarkLearningSTEM which help prepare them to design off screen, and think about the impact designs have on environment.
Plant and Animal Adaptation and Food Chains can be fun to do as a group project. Approaching art with science can inspire young students.
(RIght) Lark founder and STEM teacher Kendall Inglese holds a 3D caterpillar print and a 2D butterfly design used in one the many Story & STEM programs for Lark programs with science, art or math instructors.
Lark Learning STE(a)M Enrichment, Lark Studio (Arts)
Maker Experience
Practice Creative Builds
Practice Creative Builds
Lark Learning STEM teacher Kendall Inglese created Lark Studio to provide maker prototypes for various STEM + 3d classes. She has 20+ years experience in conservation creative services & 5+ years in the maker world at Einsteins Workshop as a teacher and is a certified BlocksCAD 3D design instructor She has taught AlphaBest enrichment ga
Lark Learning STEM teacher Kendall Inglese created Lark Studio to provide maker prototypes for various STEM + 3d classes. She has 20+ years experience in conservation creative services & 5+ years in the maker world at Einsteins Workshop as a teacher and is a certified BlocksCAD 3D design instructor She has taught AlphaBest enrichment game design chemistry code and crafts afterschool and provided curriculum and taught as STEAM teacher at Concord's Umbrella Arts Musquetaquid Nature Center.
As a longtime arts and outdoors advocate, Kendall hosts Art Shows learning design techniques and studies nature for inspiration. ArtSmart, Story & STEM, and Project Wild are some of her programs offered in Boston area.
LARK posts Nature STEM + Art studies to inspire any age anywhere to DESIGN 3D.
Learn at www.BlocksCAD3d.com
Courses for Elementary and Middle School age 3D Math are on line at www.Outschool.com
For Preschool - Montessori
Lark Learning STEM curriculum:provides
science ecosystem topics via Story & STEM
co taught by Kendall & Yumi Izuyama
on Zoom or outdoor venue
Preschool and grade k-5 bookings
available for Library or Senior Centers, Community Centers, cultural council grantees,
Great for PTO or pods, club programs.
Older ages can include bot coding and mapping movement, and folding paper angles as well as habitat species adaptations.
Kendall is a member of the National Science Teachers Association and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She volunteers to teach Floating Classroom to k-12 on Ipswich River.
She has served on local and state boards overseeing arts rec & STEM educational spaces and has brought many MassCulturalCouncil and Mass Trails grants to the public sector.
Practice Creative Builds
Practice Creative Builds
Practice Creative Builds
With many traditional arts supplies and maker studio tools, adding modeling to an art studio created STEM learning.
Lark Learning techniques have been shared at:
Umbrella Arts Concord
Muskataquid Nature Center
Compass Program Lowell
Prospect Hill Program Somerville
Summer Fenn
Cambridge Valente Library Maker Space
Brookline Public Library IdeaSpa
With many traditional arts supplies and maker studio tools, adding modeling to an art studio created STEM learning.
Lark Learning techniques have been shared at:
Umbrella Arts Concord
Muskataquid Nature Center
Compass Program Lowell
Prospect Hill Program Somerville
Summer Fenn
Cambridge Valente Library Maker Space
Brookline Public Library IdeaSpace
WIlmington Memorial Public Library
Peggy Kane Memorial Reading Garden
Everett Palin Library
Framingham Library
Boys n Girls Clubs and Ymcas
AceraSTEAM Lab k-8
Beverly Harborlight School k-8
Bethlehem Montessori Preschool
Sunrise Senior Living, Lynnfield 4 Love
Town of Reading Afterschool Programs
Wakefield Academy & STEAMFest
Boston Tech Mom, Lexington and
Boston Children's Museum Maker Faire
Brookline & Lynnfield Senior Centers
IncUbate Hamilton at Patton Homestead
Stoneham Zoo, Wenham Museum
LET LARK LEARNING COME TO YOU
via ZOOM or outdoor program
we can custom design STEM program for you or design a prototype activity for class/group
on line or on site
Create a LARK Story with Design Activities
Bring a new perspective to design & space
And learn a STEM skills concept
via these 1 hour programs:
*STEM Story of Sunflower or Butterfly
*Lark's Journey Around the Meadow
*Lark's Journey Up & Down the River
*Lark's Journey Ocean Inland
contact Kendall today at LarkLearningSTEM@gmail.com
Be a Lark Learning Maker
Practice Creative Builds
Be a Lark Learning Maker
Try out 3D design modeling and 3D design software and find out how your originality can be nurtured via Lark Learning STEM.
3D Design is used for
Science, Tech, Engineering, Math
and Arts
Building skills for creating:
Mechanical Parts
Environmental Solutions
NASA Mars Moon projects
Medical Innovations
Architecture
Transportation Modeling
Mapping 2d
Try out 3D design modeling and 3D design software and find out how your originality can be nurtured via Lark Learning STEM.
3D Design is used for
Science, Tech, Engineering, Math
and Arts
Building skills for creating:
Mechanical Parts
Environmental Solutions
NASA Mars Moon projects
Medical Innovations
Architecture
Transportation Modeling
Mapping 2d - 3d
ART as a hobby or craft
Custom Design Jewelry
Applied 3D Perspective
Model Storytelling with STEM
LARK STEAM TEAM - we work with teachers and design professionals, collaboration is key
LARK Philosophy is to be aware of the entire 360 degree world your design functions in or has impact upon. We test our models and hope that you do too! Lark Learning is about sharing perspective collaborating for young and old. Create for the sake of creating and answer the question what if we did it this way?
Fly up to the Lark Perspective and see your world as a 3D place and share what you learn.
Lark ADDS the Arts- to STEM = STEAM
Painting, Nature Photography Project Wild
Learning by Doing
Traditional & Modern Art
LynnfieldArts.org
MassCulturalCouncil.org
Lark follows CDC protocols for COVID
Instructors are CORI checked.
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