Suggests a number of ways to implement an interdisciplinary approach to the study of science and English. (DD)

Maintaining primary teachers should teach social studies and science, this article presents five conceptual teaching directions: identification of locational relationships to the rest of the world; sense of personal identity; understanding of relative time; identification of available resources; and realization of and respect for life. (JC)

The use of poetry in teaching history is discussed. Emphasis is placed on understanding the various types of metaphors used by the poet. (DE)

Argues that film and literature courses must get beyond discussions of plot to explorations of narrative perspective and structure, communication techniques, and critical methodologies in order to give students an awareness of the inherent natures, limitations, and possibilities of film and literature. (DMM)

Student interest in the important economic, diplomatic, and ideological underpinnings of the world in the period 1919-1939 might be engendered through art, music, and literature. For example, Pablo Picasso's painting, Guernica, is important for the study of both the Spanish Civil War and the events leading to World War II. (RM)

Discusses a serious internal inconsistency of the contribution of economics to environmental studies, focusing on differences between micro- and macro-environmental economics approaches. Reconciliation of several difficulties with the teaching of macro-environmental economics without surrendering the relevance of the approach is also discussed.…

Illustrates the use that can be made of aestheometry'' (the aesthetics of geometry) in stimulating student inquiry and in promoting interdisciplinary study by providing instructions for the construction of an illusion of a floating sphere in a pattern of threads. (AL)

Demonstrates the relevance of values probing strategies for helping high school and college students understand values issues. In this approach, students react to a conflict issue from their own perspectives and justify their reactions, clarify and evaluate their arguments and alternative viewpoints, discover the values that give rise to the…

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

Outlines the values and merits of interdisciplinary instruction. (Author/RK)

Strategies for choosing themes for theme teaching include limiting subject areas, integrating skills, balancing teacher- and student-generated themes, avoiding cutsey activities, drawing from various arenas, avoiding overly long themes, avoiding yearlong or schoolwide themes, understanding the themes, repeating themes, and borrowing themes from…

Proposes a lesson that integrates the volume of geometric prisms and literature as a way to introduce students to the Cartesian diver. Describes activities constituting the lesson and contexts included in the lesson. (KHR)

The transition from a disciplinary to an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the history of education is discussed with regard to course development, content, activities, student evaluation, and teaching techniques. (IAH)

Several across-the-curriculum activities, with a penguin theme, are described. Research, discussion, science, writing, math, and art activities are listed. Included is a list of resources which gives sources for books and posters. (IAH)