Education

The STEM Read Podcast: Doodlers and Daydreamers

Northern Public Radio | By Gillian King-Cargile

Published January 19, 2018 at 5:01 PM CST

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(L-R: Gillian King-Cargile, Tom Lichtenheld, Dr. Rhonda Robinson, Kristin Brynteson)

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Episode 6: Doodlers and Daydreamers with Dr. Rhonda Robinson and Tom Lichtenheld

On this episode of the STEM Read podcast, hosts Gillian King-Cargile (@gkingcargile) and Kristin Brynteson (@kbrynteson) chat with visual literacy expert Dr. Rhonda Robinson and author/illustrator Tom Lichtenheld (Cloudette, Duck! Rabbit!, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site). We’ll talk to Rhonda about the importance of fostering visual literacy skills in learners and share some activities and picture books you can use at home or in the classroom. Then we’ll talk to Tom Lichtenheld (http://www.tomlichtenheld.com/) about his process of creating visual images and stories and how important creativity, collaboration, persistence, and constraints are to that creative process.

Northern Illinois University’s STEM Read is part of the NIU STEAM family of programs that explore science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math. Find more great books, lesson plans, and resources at stemread.com.

The STEM Read Podcast is produced in collaboration with WNIJ.

Notes & External Links

· Cloudette, Bridget’s Beret, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site, and Duck! Rabbit! By Tom Lichtenheld

· What is Visual Literacy?

· Visit the DuPage Children’s Museum!

· Argonne National Lab’s great storm guy is Doug Sisterson!

· The Toy and the Twister by Gillian King-Cargile and Kevin Krull

· You can see Kevin Krull’s Illustrations Here!

· We don’t expect you to paint like Vermeer, just create.

· The Napping House by Audrey Wood

· Try Analyzing these Illustrations: Boy and the Airplane, Inside Outside, Flotsam

· The Toy and the Tide Pool by Gillian King-Cargile and Kevin Krull