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STEAM in Action: From Garden to (Lab) Table to Canvas

Mrs. Salisbury's third and fourth graders took a trip to Mr. Gance's Upper School chemistry lab after school on October 6. They have been working on a cross-disciplinary, cross-divisional project with their peers to create dye harvested from flowers planted in the community garden last spring. 

Lower School students had a great time crushing up the flower petals inside a mortar bowl and boiling them in Bunsen burners with the help of their Upper School scientist peers. After adding ethyl alcohol and letting the mixture sit for a week, on October 13, students used the extracted color to make a thick dye by adding cornstarch. Next up, the pigment was turned over to Upper School art classes for the final stage - using the dye as paint. During the week of October 17, students used the nature-made paint to create works of art on paper as well as glass.

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