Standards can help integrate a curriculum, as a fourth-grade teacher discovered when implementing a unit on the Middle Ages. Students created a medieval fair that demonstrated their learning in medieval history (social studies), pulleys and gears (science and technology), story telling (language arts), and costume and dance (fine arts). (MLH)

Before designing an interdisciplinary portfolio project, educators at a Colorado middle school surveyed seventh- and eighth-grade students about their most memorable work. Students' most memorable work in school included hands-on science, independent research projects, speech making, research on foreign cultures, field trips, and art projects.…