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Tug?c¸e Gu¨nter; Go¨zde Parasiz Arslantu¨rk – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
This research aims to examine the effect of integrating arts in a laboratory practice, concerning basic artistic stage, chemistry and art, dermocosmetics, and laboratory practice level dermocosmetics production, on the learning performance of students. The application process consisted of two stages, namely an experimental stage and an artistic…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Students, Art Activities
Marder, Michael – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
Striking differences between physics and biology have important implications for interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The author is a physicist with interdisciplinary connections. The research group in which he works, the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin, is…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Scientific Research, Science Teachers, STEM Education
Wraga, William G. – Educational Horizons, 2009
One shortcoming of the academic curriculum is its tendency to emphasize the integrity of the separate subjects and to neglect, even ignore, connections between and among subjects as well as between students' academic experiences and those beyond school. Unfortunately, evidence indicates that recent high school students, who have completed more…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Academic Education, Intellectual Disciplines, High Schools
Stinson, Kevin; Harkness, Shelly Sheats; Meyer, Helen; Stallworth, James – School Science and Mathematics, 2009
The squeeze on instructional time and other factors increasingly leads educators to consider mathematics and science integration in an effort to be more efficient and effective. Unfortunately, the need for common understandings for what it means to integrate these disciplines, as well as the need for improving disciplinary knowledge, appears to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Mathematics Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Vignettes
Ashmann, Scott – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Over the past few decades, it has become evident that the natural environment is an entity that humans need to better understand. Environmental education is defined here as the teaching and learning of, and about, nature and human interaction with nature. Traditionally, the environment has been researched and taught about in a piecemeal…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Humanities, Art Education, Language Fluency
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes, Ed. – 1989
This document describes a variety of curriculum integration options ranging from concurrent teaching of related subjects to fusion of curriculum focus to residential study focusing on daily living; from 2-week units to year-long courses. Suggestions are offered for choosing proper criteria for successful curriculum integration, dealing with the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fused Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum
Pfeiffer, Carl H. – 1968
The two student notebooks in this set provide the basic course outline and assignments for the second year of a four year senior high school unified science program. The two volumes contain these four units: Expansion of Ideas About the Nature of Matter, Characteristics of Living Matter, Mechanisms of Life Processes, and Patterns of Change. The…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Fused Curriculum, Instructional Materials

Spice, J. E. – Physics Education, 1972
Describes for members of physics departments in higher education what kind of background in physics they may expect of students who have done the Nuffield physical science course, rather than a senior level course in college prep" physics. (Author/TS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Fused Curriculum

Nissani, Moti – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 1995
Proposes a practical definition of "interdisciplinarity" that reduces some of the uncertainties surrounding the term and focuses on its essential attributes. Indicates that "interdisciplinarity," the uniting of distinctive components of two or more disciplines, involves interdisciplinary knowledge, research, or education as its main objects of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Philosophy, Experimental Curriculum, Fused Curriculum
Walker, Dean – 1996
A growing number of education reformers are justifying their reform strategies by pointing to the findings of developmental brain research, theories of information processing, and the needs dictated by today's information-rich world. They advocate integrative education, which places students in a holistic context. This digest describes the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Fused Curriculum, Holistic Approach, Integrated Curriculum
Beane, James A., Ed. – 1995
This book addresses issues relevant to the development of a coherent curriculum. A "coherent" curriculum is one whose parts are unified and connected by a sense of the whole. Following the foreword by Arthur W. Steller and the prologue by James A. Beane, the introduction (1) by James A. Beane raises a number of questions related to the search for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Curriculum
Springer, Mark A; Lott, Jesse – 1986
Understanding U.S. culture is difficult, because the information explosion creates an increase in the number and complexity of various cultural relationships. American Studies is a valuable and unique discipline because it directly addresses this problem, the basic purposes of education, and the relationships that shape students' culture. This…
Descriptors: American Studies, Area Studies, Fused Curriculum, Holistic Approach
Pfeiffer, Carl H. – 1968
The two student notebooks in this set provide the basic course outline and assignments for the third year of a four year senior high school unified science program. This course is the less technical of the two third-year courses offered in the program. The first of the three major units in this course, Structure and Dynamics of the Biosphere, is…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environment, Environmental Education, Fused Curriculum
Pfeiffer, Carl H. – 1968
The two student notebooks in this set provide the basic outline and assignments for the fourth and last year of a senior high school unified science program which builds on the technical third year course, Science IIIA (see SE 012 149). An introductory section considers the problems of survival inherent in living systems, matter-energy…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Fused Curriculum, Instructional Materials
Pfeiffer, Carl H. – 1968
The two student notebooks in this set provide the basic course outline and assignments for the first year of a four year senior high school unified science program. The first volume consists of these three units: The Universe and Man; Man's Attempt to Understand and Relate to the Process of Change; and Man's Ideas About the Structure of Matter.…
Descriptors: Fused Curriculum, Instructional Materials, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach