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Christine Mazeppa – Dance Education in Practice, 2024
This article serves as an in-practice guide to help teachers facilitate the creation of a dance piece using the five-paragraph essay format to explore themes through motif and manipulation. It is an outline of the process that begins with the selection of a theme and the development of a motif to represent that theme. It compares the development…
Descriptors: Dance, Comparative Analysis, Dance Education, Human Body
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Mora-Flores, Eugenia; Kaplan, Sandra N. – Gifted Child Today, 2022
This article describes methods for operationalizing the concept of interdisciplinarity. The methods respond to the characteristics of giftedness and strategies of differentiation. In selecting and using an interdisciplinary strategy, educators need to consider the compatibility of the purpose or objective of interdisciplinarity to the curriculum…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Academically Gifted, Language Skills, Literacy
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Hilburn, Jeremy; Maguth, Brad M.; Jacobs, Kaylee; Parra, Heather – Social Studies, 2023
In February 2019, two nations with the largest nuclear arsenals announced their withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Russia's interference in U.S. elections and the invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated tensions between the U.S. and Russia. These actions bring renewed attention to nuclear nonproliferation efforts…
Descriptors: Weapons, International Relations, Treaties, War
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Schey, Ryan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: Current legislative, policy and cultural efforts to censor and illegalize classroom discussions and curricular representations of LGBTQ+ people reflect longstanding challenges in English education. In an effort to explore what curricular inclusion can (not) accomplish--especially what and how current struggles over inclusion, censorship,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Social Justice, Inclusion
Krutka, Daniel G.; Pleasants, Jacob; Nichols, T. Philip – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
The school lives of students and educators have long been affected by technological changes, but the advent of digital technologies, from smartphones to social media, have amplified the effects on their daily lives. Unfortunately, school curricula rarely focus on critically examining our relationships with technologies. Daniel G. Krutka, Jacob…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Information Technology, Technology Education
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Edwards, Kirsten D.; Gotwals, Amelia Wenk; Wright, Tanya S. – Science and Children, 2020
Young children love opportunities to build, discover, and solve problems. Teachers can take advantage of these natural tendencies by introducing students to aspects of engineering design while they engage in classroom activities. Engineering also lends itself to supporting students in developing disciplinary literacy practices such as learning…
Descriptors: Engineering, Kindergarten, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts
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Mertens, Gillian E.; Mundorf, Jon; Bainter, Taylor; Bourn, John; Kohnen, Angela M. – Middle School Journal, 2021
In this article, we describe a collaboratively developed information literacy curriculum that was embedded into three core 8th grade subjects: Algebra, American History, and English Language Arts. The curriculum was rooted in the concept of generalist literacy and supported students as they developed their curiosity, skepticism, commitment to…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Information Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development
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Sefton, Terry; Smith, Kara; Tousignant, Wayne – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Using a project-based learning approach, three teacher educators, teaching three different methodology courses, worked together to create, plan, and assess an arts-based assignment completed by preservice candidates. The preservice teachers created an animation project while applying curriculum expectations in three subject areas: visual arts,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Active Learning
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Schrodt, Katie; Winters, Jeremy; Huddleston, Tracey – Science and Children, 2021
In today's dynamic global economy, integrated units of study are particularly important. Students who are fluent in several disciplines and comfortable moving among them can make meaningful connections and maintain enhanced understandings (Sias et al. 2016). This article shares an integrated STEAM unit that is grounded in the science disciplinary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Gutierrez, Evan C. – Harvard Education Press, 2021
"A New Canon" is the first book to provide a framework for designing and utilizing rigorous, standards-aligned curriculum to address the lack of representation for marginalized communities in formal education. Grounded in literature around cultural relevance and responsive teaching practice, the book provides step-by-step guidance for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Humanities Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development
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Wilson, Rachel; Bradbury, Leslie; Lunceford, Amy; Stanbery, Shannon – Science and Children, 2021
Working with second-grade teachers, the authors designed a six-day integrated science and language arts unit to investigate the structures that insects use to make their sound vibrations. They were inspired by "The Very Quiet Cricket" (Carle 1990), which was used as the focus text for the unit, as well as "Bug Music"…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Grade 2, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Sarah Sansbury – Knowledge Quest, 2021
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian hate had been on the rise. By making sure all voices are heard, especially those who are underrepresented, librarians can be agents of civic engagement. This article examines how Sarah Sansbury knew then how her elementary students could bring about justice through awareness and, she hoped,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, United States History, Elementary School Students, Social Justice
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Lipowitz, Daniel; Berkeihiser, Michael – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2019
This article describes a class room activity introduced at Unionville High School in Kennett Square, PA. Humanities teacher Daniel Lipowitz partnered with engineering teacher Michael Berkeihiser and other STEM teachers to put the humanities (H) in "SHTEM." Sophomore English students were asked to re-engineer the conflict in common works…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Humanities, English Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Reis, Sally M.; Fogarty, Elizabeth A. – Gifted Child Today, 2022
Providing challenging curriculum in a literacy classroom of students whose reading abilities range widely can be a challenge. Integrating interdisciplinary book selections into a self-selected reading program, however, provides students with challenge by engaging them with big ideas. This article describes methods of integrating advanced…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academically Gifted, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Fluency
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Shea, Lauren M.; Shanahan, Therese – Science and Children, 2020
Science often takes a back burner to English Language Arts (ELA) and Math. With ELA and Math being tested from early years and school funding relying on each, many teachers are pushed by administrators to spend as much time as possible on those two subjects. During the authors' years as classroom teachers and professional development providers,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
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