Elementary students who love good literature are often the same children who dislike completing worksheets filled with numerical problems or who struggle with those troublesome word problems. With the whole-language philosophy and literature-based language arts becoming more prevalent, integrating math and literature is an exciting and logical…

Describes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching music and poetry. (FL)

Lists writing exercises based on observations students can make in a shopping mall. Notes that the exercises are intended to become a springboard for study, description, conjecture, evidence, example, and innovation, and can be combined, expanded, or shortened. (EL)

Describes a field-tested interdisciplinary unit activity that involves collecting data on honeybees. Students gain hands-on experience with collecting, transforming, and analyzing data in this activity by using actual techniques employed by entomologists, the scientists who study insects. (ASK)

The process of "webbing" is described as a valuable technique for organizing teaching activities around a theme. Two examples are illustrated using the broad topics of "change" and "fall." Suggestions are made for carrying out the fall theme by taking children on outdoor walks for the purpose of observing, examining,…

In times past art instruction for young children was integrated with other subject matters. Integration provides more meaningful experiences than can be achieved through separate study of narrowly defined subjects. (RM)

Describes classroom experiences while teaching a unit on Matisse to gifted students. (EL)

Reports on a three-day conference entitled "Creative Process in Education: Design for Quality Learning." Held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the conference focused on integrating the arts into the elementary curriculum. Teaching ideas presented in workshop sessions are described. (Author/SJL)

Considers the situations of "interdisciplinary writing," writing done in correspondence with subjects other than English. Describes some methods and experiences in teaching interdisciplinary writing in a college level "Writing Science" course. (JT)

Discusses the advantages of an interdisciplinary curriculum, especially in elementary school. Implementing interdisciplinary curriculum units helps children acquire targeted concepts and skills of various disciplines more effectively. Existing curriculum, current events, and student concerns are the places to find interdisciplinary unit ideas. (SM)

In order to stimulate the need for science teaching in the already overcrowded teaching program, it is shown how the science program can serve as a vehicle for providing unique and valuable school experiences, a way to express curiosity, develop useful attitudes, and demonstrate various skills. (EB)

Suggests that journalism and literature are indissoluably linked by the nature of their chosen task--to capture life in language that lives--and that journalism students should be exposed to quality literature to help them better understand how authors use language to get a message across. (HTH)

The trend toward the interdisciplinary approach to learning is suggested to be more effective for well-rounded study of a subject. Methods for using the approach in a university setting are presented. (LBH)

The Federal Superfund Program investigates and cleans up hazardous waste sites throughout the United States. Part of this program is devoted to informing the public and involving people in the process of cleaning up hazardous waste sites from beginning to end. The Haz-Ed program was developed to assist the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)…

Outlines a technique for improving student writing across the disciplines through postwriting evaluation sessions. (FL)