Elementary teachers can use music as the springboard for across-the-curriculum activities. The article presents strategies for introducing elementary students to music and integrating the arts into other subjects. It also explains how to select the right pieces and suggests various helpful products for integrating music into the curriculum. (SM)

Describes a two-day class plan in which students learn about performance and production aspects of a Shakespearean play and become sensitive to the multiple readings that can exist in a text. (SR)

Environmental education is an interdisciplinary approach that draws on biology, mathematics, chemistry, social studies, and humanities and provides a balanced, comprehensive perspective. Knowledge and skills required are applicable to regional, statewide, and global concerns. Methods include infusion, issue investigation and action, and educating…

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)

Addresses the difficulties for upper elementary students in shifting from reading to learn to reading for content. Suggests that integrating reading instruction into social studies lessons will help students improve in confidence and responsibility for learning. Includes detailed plans for two lessons and the strategies to be used. (DK)

Discusses the concept of writing across the curriculum and how it is used in a university level geography class. Suggests that writing as a resource for learning benefits students by encouraging critical thinking, the organization of bodies of information, and increased memory. Includes specific reading and writing assignments. (DK)

A discussion of liberal studies in the pharmacy curriculum argues that integration throughout the baccalaureate program is needed, and teaching methods and goals, not course content, are primary factors in building coherent curriculum. Strategies used at Albany College of Pharmacy to avoid separation of the curricula are offered as illustration.…

Notes increased interest among media instructors in the broader liberal arts mission and their role in it. Explores efforts to connect journalism and mass communication studies with the rest of the curriculum. Explains a "linchpin series" which connects mass communication topics directly to various other fields. Provides examples. (SG)

Calculator riddles can interest elementary students in math. Solving riddles where a numerical answer turned upside down reveals a word answer provides an amusing way to practice mathematical operations and learn about calculator functions. The paper explains how to create word riddles and includes student work pages. (SM)

Outlines the concept and development of environmental education and the future implications to teachers in Bophuthatswana. Defines and discusses an integrated approach to teaching approaches in environmental education. (Contains 17 references.) (MDH)

Presents units that address states of matter and changes of states of matter linked with the water cycle and integrates literacy and science. Discusses the language in science books. Lists characteristics of good science inquiry units. (Contains 11 references.) (ASK)

Advocates for studies designed to promote understanding of how service learning fits with the historical traditions and norms, key concerns and perspectives, and basic assumptions of the various academic disciplines. This agenda can only be successfully addressed by enlisting the active cooperation of national and regional disciplinary and…

Examines the educational benefits of an experimental project approach to students taking the last course of an introductory biology sequence. Educational benefits were defined in terms of analytical skills, knowledge of basic statistics, and experience with scientific writing. The study was viewed as a preliminary investigation, but one that…

Provides an insight into the scope and practice of Literacy Strategy which encourages primary children in England to read and write non-fiction more effectively, the way it is being used to complement primary science, and how it provides secondary science teachers with an exciting opportunity to improve pupil achievement in science. (Contains 18…

One way of seeing music education is to think of it as the study of music as a series of sounds and silences. This model has dominated North American conservatories and many universities (2) and found its way into classroom practice. Another way of seeing music education is to define it as cultural studies--that is, a subject concerned with…