Describes projects using an Applied Foreign Language Component approach to incorporate foreign language study and enrichment in multidisciplinary studies, including practical guidelines for implementing such programs, forming faculty alliances, modifying courses, recruiting students, and expanding library holdings. (10 references) (Author/CB)

Use of classic book units with gifted elementary students is described as an interdisciplinary approach to stimulating student interest. Sample activities are offered from a unit on Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," with linguistic, artistic-creative, scientific, mathematical, and socio-leadership activities, classified as application,…

Activities in which students can learn to determine the history of a tree from the growth pattern recorded in the rings of a cross-section of a tree are described. Activities include background information, objectives, a list of needed materials per group, and procedures. Cross-sections of four different tree types are included if real tree…

Ties environmental education, via garbage disposal issues, to Oregon's educational reform agenda. Discusses teaching the basics through "garbage" lessons. Includes how to (1) take an interdisciplinary approach; (2) introduce waste management concepts in other lessons; (3) use waste management examples to apply existing concepts; and (4)…

An egg incubation project for students with severe visual impairments is described as an integrated curriculum project. Tactual aids were used to illustrate stages of fetal development. Objectives and activities including a farm visit, cooking, related arts, writing projects, and literature are described. (PB)

Kimbark Environmental Educational Program (KEEP) combines a strong environmental science emphasis with multidisciplinary instruction in grades K-6. KEEP blends five ingredients in two complementing modes of instruction: class and small group pull-out. The five ingredients are textbook, technology, hands-on activities, outdoor experiences, and…

Describes a project in which students combined personal narratives, drawings, and Japanese woodblock prints. Includes three examples of students' stories and prints. (SR)

Describes an interdisciplinary project with 13-year-old pupils that brings the history of mathematics into the project. Concludes that many changes were observed in the attitudes of pupils toward mathematics and that this project enabled pupils to see human aspects of mathematics. (ASK)

Presents literature-based activities that take division off the workbook pages and place it in situations to which children can relate. The activities help students understand division, devise strategies, and solve problems in context. Both activities involve reading stories then using division to solve real-life problems for story characters. (SM)

Examines 17 national standards documents from 12 key subject areas, to identify six critical thinking and reasoning skill areas that cut across core subject areas. Discusses to what extent different subject areas place different emphasis on the various thinking and reasoning skills. Discusses how thinking and reasoning should be taught. (SR)

Describes felting as the process of making felt using sheep's wool from fibers without weaving or knitting. Explains that teachers can incorporate felting into a lesson exploring the background behind this process, as an extension of collage or textile arts, as a means to studying abstract art, or in a fashion design unit. (CMK)

Discusses a graduate-level course in mariculture to help students synthesize what they have learned in traditional courses and apply that higher-level understanding in a systematic and explicit way in evaluating complex issues. (Author/CCM)

Issues of older adults are often ill-structured and complex, requiring the application of insights from different disciplines to be adequately addressed. Gerontology has often used a multidisciplinary rather than an integrated interdisciplinary approach. Interdisciplinary and problem-based learning (PBL) provide pedagogical tools which teach…

This article from the NCTM's 2003 Yearbook Learning and Teaching Measurement discusses various literary works containing measurement topics. (Contains 1 figure and 26 resources.)

The field of American Studies explores the cultures and practices of individuals and communities in the United States, as well as their transnational exchanges and impacts. It is an interdisciplinary field that is based on making "connections." Environmental justice, as a social movement, also makes important connections. It integrates…