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Musa Saimon; Zsolt Lavicza; Tony Houghton; Fredrick Mtenzi; Pablo Carranza – Discover Education, 2025
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Education is one of the approaches that teachers adopt as they shift from content delivery focused teaching to skills development teaching. Also, effective STEAMING requires connection to issues outside the classroom (outdoor STEAM) and hence the coinage of the term Transdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Art Education, STEM Education, Sustainability
Waring, Scott M. – Teachers College Press, 2021
Learn how to integrate and evaluate primary and secondary sources by using the SOURCES framework. SOURCES is an acronym for an approach that educators can use with student in all grades and content areas: Scrutinize the fundamental source, Organize thoughts, Understand the context, Read between the lines, Corroborate and refute, Establish a…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Evaluation Methods, Critical Reading, Evaluative Thinking
Fulco, Charles – Science and Children, 2017
On Monday, August 21, 2017 there will be a Total Solar Eclipse. This will be the first time the Moon's umbra has touched the continental United States since 1979 and the first totality to span the country coast-to-coast since 1918. From within parts of Oregon and through 14 states to South Carolina, the Moon will completely hide the Sun for a few…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy
Dougherty, Chrys; Moore, Raeal – ACT, Inc., 2019
Spending more time teaching science and social studies in K-3 can have at least four potential benefits: (1) Increased learning in these subjects is likely to improve students' reading comprehension in later grades; (2) Introducing students to science and social studies in the early grades is likely to better prepare them for learning those…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Beliefs, Social Studies
Bintz, William P.; Ciecierski, Lisa M. – Reading Teacher, 2017
The Common Core State Standards for English language arts expect that teachers will use narrative and informational texts to teach content area material across the curriculum. However, many teachers at all grade levels struggle to incorporate both kinds of text, especially given the vast amount of specialized content they are required to teach.…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Common Core State Standards, Language Arts, Reading Instruction
Chandler-Olcott, Kelly – Literacy, 2017
This article argues that scholarship on literacy in and across the disciplines has disproportionately focused on the core subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies rather than on "specialist" subjects such as Physical Education. This disparity in emphasis has provided little guidance to specialist teachers seeking to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Approach, English
Collier-Harris, Christine A.; Goldman, Juliette D. G. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
The processes of puberty, including reproductive fertility and social-role transitions, now begin earlier, last longer, and are experienced in very different contexts. Because of this, all children and adolescents need good-quality puberty education in school curricula, and this need is supported by positive cost-benefit analysis and international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Puberty, National Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Wilder, Sandra; Lang, Annette; Monegan, Max – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2015
Issues of disconnect and isolation from other disciplines seem to plague numerous subjects taught in high schools today. Although they share common roots, mathematics, natural sciences and humanities appeared to have developed rich, but separated curricula with only occasionally emphasized and seemingly weak connections between their respective…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Mathematics, Social Studies, Language Arts
Graham, Abbey C. K.; Kerkhoff, Shea N.; Spires, Hiller A. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2017
The present study examined middle school teachers' perceptions of literacy demands in their disciplines and specific literacy strategies they used to teach their disciplines. The eight participants in this multiple case study included 2 middle school teachers from each of 4 disciplines (i.e., English/language arts, science, social studies, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
van 't Hooft, Mark; Vahey, Philip; Swan, Karen; Kratcoski, Annette; Cook, Dale; Rafanan, Ken; Stanford, Tina; Yarnell, Louise – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2012
Data literacy is recognized as a critically important skill in today's society, but thinking with and about data is often ignored in K-12 curricula. The Thinking With Data (TWD) project advocates that data literacy is a skill that should be addressed in an interdisciplinary manner. This article provides an overview of the TWD curriculum for middle…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Data Analysis, Information Literacy
Seo, Byung-In – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2009
Interdisciplinary concepts and methodology are increasingly common in today's secondary schools. However, many interdisciplinary lessons combine courses in related areas (e.g., English with history or science with mathematics). This article examines the use of mathematical ideas in the teaching of literature and writing. Employing mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics, English Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Upczak-Garcia, Anne – Educational Leadership, 2012
The author works as a biliteracy teacher in a bilingual school that serves students from K-5th grade. She and her coteacher provide instruction in both English and Spanish to 4th and 5th graders. They have two language arts blocks so that students receive literacy instruction in both their native and second languages, and they teach math, social…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Teachers, Team Teaching
Howat, Craig – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
The popular reality television show "Amazing Race" involves participants searching for clues and completing tasks as they progress on a journey all over the world. Inspired by the show, the author incorporated some of the tasks from "Amazing Race" with geocaching, a game in which participants use a Global Positioning System…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Heritage Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries
2001
This videotape records the stories of 7 scientists, 3 women and 4 men who range in age from 33 to 81. Beginning with their earliest scientific questions and including their most personal ponderings, the scientists reveal their histories and professional obligations to affect the world. Director Michael Apted allows the personal adventures of the…
Descriptors: Films, High Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts

Conn, Kathleen – Science Scope, 2001
Introduces an integrated science activity in which students learn about the principles of superposition, biostratigraphy, and correlation and study the single-celled microorganism foraminifera to learn about marine biology. (YDS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts