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Walmsley, Sean A. – Instructor, 1996
Strategies for choosing themes for theme teaching include limiting subject areas, integrating skills, balancing teacher- and student-generated themes, avoiding cutsey activities, drawing from various arenas, avoiding overly long themes, avoiding yearlong or schoolwide themes, understanding the themes, repeating themes, and borrowing themes from…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods

Chopyk, Dan B. – Russian Language Journal, 1982
Examines four approaches to teaching Russian literature in translation and offers suggestions from the most successful programs to help in establishing, developing, or improving similar programs at other educational institutions. (EKN)
Descriptors: English, Interdisciplinary Approach, Postsecondary Education, Russian
Singleton, Laurel R. – 1993
This book is based on the belief that children's literature and geography should be linked in elementary classrooms. The book has three major sections. The first section, "Using Literature to Teach the Five Themes of Geography," provides a brief overview of the five themes of geography (location, place, relationships within place,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Geography, Geography Instruction
Saveland, Robert – Curriculum Review, 1987
Discusses problems with existing social studies curriculum, including the dichotomy between in-depth studies and coverage studies, lack of correlation with other fields of instruction, and uncertainty about the appropriate sequential development of concepts. A master plan for social studies curriculum, focusing on grades five through eight, is…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Guidelines

Moss, Barbara; Noden, Harry – Reading Teacher, 1995
Describes 13 recommended resources that alert busy teachers at all grade levels to meaningful trade books (both fiction and nonfiction) for children and ways to use those trade books in the classroom. Classifies them as lists of trade books; trade books and activities; and trade books across the curriculum. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Material Selection

Riley, Tracy L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1997
This paper explores the use of conceptual themes as a framework for interdisciplinary studies with gifted students. Describes sample themes and suggested student products, as well as guidelines for brainstorming, planning activities, facilitating production, and evaluating student products. (PB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Walmsley, Bonnie Brown; Camp, Anne-Marie – Instructor, 1997
This special section describes one elementary school's Art and Artists theme, which allows students to study art across the curriculum. Various types of projects are described, including a classroom art museum, self-portrait painting, writing about art, scientific drawing, and a study of shapes. A pullout presents examples of student work. (SM)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Creative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Approach
Powley, Sarah A.; Moon, Sidney M. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
This article provides a pragmatic approach to the development of theme units in a secondary English program for verbally talented students. The article provides a rationale for theme-based teaching, describes the structure of a thematic unit, and provides guidance on teacher development of thematic units. A unit on "losses/gains" is presented as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Gifted

Ganapole, Selina J. – Roeper Review, 1989
Implications of constructivist educational theory for language arts curriculum development for gifted students are proposed. A framework for designing curricula in which language and higher level thinking skills are integrated with content drawn from multiple disciplines is offered. A sample unit for sixth grade, "Life in a Space…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Novelli, Joan – Instructor, 1993
A Chapter 1 school motivated students using technology and the arts. A partnership with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts helped students develop cognitive and creative skills while working in concrete ways. Using computers, each class chose an artist, developed a class museum, and exhibited at the student-staffed museum. (SM)
Descriptors: Artists, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth

Jacobs, Heidi Hayes; Borland, James H. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1986
The Interdisciplinary Concept Model is a four-step plan for developing interdisciplinary curriculum units for gifted students. The model's steps are selecting a topic, brainstorming associations, formulating guiding questions for inquiry, and designing and implementing activities. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1999
Educating students about character development and responsibility can and should be an integral part of the academic curriculum. This collection contains units of study that were written to exemplify some of the many ways that these themes might be taught in preK-12 Massachusetts classrooms. Using the standards of the Massachusetts Curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Citizenship Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction
Hiatt, Evelyn Levsky, Ed.; Covington, Jeanette, Ed. – Update on Gifted Education, 1991
This document is a "theme" issue of a quarterly serial publication. It focuses on curriculum development for gifted students. A list of 13 principles of a differentiated curriculum for gifted/talented students precedes the articles. The first article, "Developing Curriculum for Gifted/Talented" by Jim Coffey, offers a philosophical rationale for a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education

Greenwood, Anita – Science and Children, 1996
Discusses reasons why inservice workshops often fail to impact science teaching. Describes restructuring of a workshop series so that teachers become real science learners, struggling with their own ideas about different scientific concepts as they design experiments and share theories with their peers. (JRH)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary Education, Hands on Science
Thirunarayanan, M. O., Comp. – 1992
This handbook is intended to be a ready source of reference for educators who want to find out about STS (Science, Technology and Society). Ideas, strategies, and models for implementing STS in the classroom are provided in this volume. The articles that appear here reflect current thinking in the field of STS education. These articles encompass a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Global Education, Integrated Activities
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