This article describes how physical educators can easily embed math and literacy concepts into their curriculum to enhance student learning across disciplines.

Designed to aid those wishing to integrate conservation education into all high school subjects, suggestions in this curriculum guide may be used as a part of a unit or as an entire unit in each school course. An outline of the philosophy, history, development, and resources of conservation are first presented to serve as a guide for discussions.…

Lists 58 journal articles and books, published 1989-2002, on integrated programs at the secondary level. Categories are: updates on the Ontario scene, suggestions for teachers, assessment, research, and program descriptions. (SV)

Dental health education can be an integral part of the school curriculum, even when there are constraints on time and money and a formal health instruction program is lacking. Under these less than ideal circumstances, dental health education may be correlated at all grade levels with instruction in other subjects including, but not limited to,…

This book is intended to introduce teachers to the practices of "environmental education," and is the first in a series published by the Institute for Environmental Education. The series focus is on problem-solving in the community as the subject matter for environmental education. Problem-solving is used as a process of investigatory…

Noting that theme teaching offers opportunities to set up a classroom environment that fosters and encourages process learning, this book offers a rationale and activities for a thematic approach to instruction. The introduction of the book explores several issues: (1) assessing the strategies that children will learn as a result of theme teaching…

This guide presents learning activities and lesson plans that integrate science with technical and vocational areas. Activities and plans are organized under broad headings such as Environmental Science and Acid Rain Research; Criminal Justice, Chemistry, and Narcotics; Children's Education and Services; Cosmetology; and Health Professions.…

This booklet is one in a series of resource manuals to help teacher educators conduct environmental education (EE) teacher workshops or promote EE programs. This unit is intended for workshop facilitators to help teachers integrate environmental themes into their teaching. It provides ideas for making connections between environmental content and…

This booklet is one in a series of resource manuals to help teacher educators conduct environmental education (EE) teacher workshops or promote EE programs. The unit is presented in seven sections that describe: (1) a rationale for teaching environmental issues; (2) a five-step process for addressing environmental issues; (3) classroom approaches…

Promoting ACademic Excellence in Mathematics and Science for Workers of the 21st Century (PACE) was a consortium project made up of Indiana University Northwest, the Gary Community Schools, and the Merrillville Community Schools. The focus of this project was to prepare teachers and curricula for Tech Prep mathematics and science courses for the…

The booklet is for participants in a Project GROW (Gaining the Realities of Work) career education inservice training session and is part of a package which includes slide/tape presentations, handouts, a game, and graded classroom activity packs. Three sequential modules comprise the training session; the third module is to be postponed until…

This guide is intended to be used primarily in schools implementing the CUE (culture, understandings, and enrichment) program--a multi-media approach to education which helps teachers integrate the arts and humanities. Included in the guide are discussions of the CUE system's rationale, benefits, and costs; the value of the arts in education; the…

The monograph is intended to demonstrate how the production of a slidetape show can become a multidisciplinary exercise that helps students become creative users of information, rather than passive receivers of information. Career education and audiovisual media instruction are both cross-disciplinary in nature and can be infused into existing…

This guide is designed to help teachers plan and implement integrated, theme-based (ITB) instruction for adults. Chapter 1 provides an overview of integrated, thematic instruction. Chapter 2 discusses important assumptions about how adults learn. Chapter 3 provides a general discussion of differences among individuals in their approach to learning…

This project paper for the 1994-95 Klingenstein Fellows Program at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), examines the philosophical and pedagogical underpinnings of an interdisciplinary law-related curriculum for secondary students. The proposed interdisciplinary law-related curriculum focuses on issues of human rights, civil liberties…