Students learn art, math at museum HUNTINGTON -- Third-graders
from Salt Rock Elementary visited the Huntington Museum of Art
on Thursday as part of the Add It Up program, which integrates
art and math. Students were led by docents through the Touma
Gallery, the glass collection and the conservatory, learning
about the pieces of art and plants and then incorporating a math
lesson. In the conservatory, students learned how to read
Celsius and Fahrenheit on a mercury thermometer and then
measured the length and width of the large leaves on a banana
tree. "It's a great learning tool, doing realistic activities,"
said Cindy Dearborn, the Museum and Schools coordinator.
"There's tremendous value (to the program). It exposes them to
the arts and reinforces the West Virginia Content Standards and
Objectives." The museum has a partnership with Cabell County
Schools, so every third-grade classroom will visit for the Add
It Up program, while the fourth-grade classes take part in the
Look, Listen, Move tour. Dearborn sa