Describes an activity that provides many opportunities for students to make connections between mathematics and the high interest subject of basketball. (KHR)

Focuses on why and how to integrate music education with children's literature. Discusses the use of the thematic approach. Describes a unit on animals, focusing on books to include in the unit. Includes a bibliography of children's books. (CMK)

Describes using song lyrics in undergraduate principles of economics courses to help the students learn economics. Discusses two music essay projects and includes examples of student responses. Addresses the benefits/costs and suggested refinements of the project. Includes references. (CMK)

Describes an innovative world history class course, "History through Theater", taught at National University (San Diego, California). States that the course integrates the use of different learning styles. Discusses the content of the course and highlights the materials that the students read during the course. (CMK)

Characterizes students' understanding of the rock cycle system. Examines effects of a knowledge integration activity on their system thinking. Interprets answers to an open-ended test using a systems thinking continuum ranging from a completely static view of the system to an understanding of the system's cyclic nature. Reports meaningful…

Presents a project where fourth-grade students depicted images on coins to reflect important conflicts in Canadian history, such as September 11, 2001. Explains how to create the coins in detail. States that the students each wrote a "proclamation" that described their time period depicted on the coins. (CMK)

A multidisciplinary team model used at a child and adolescent mental health service in Norfolk (England) was evaluated. Team members represented three different professional backgrounds: practitioners, managers, and planners. Formative evaluation results suggest that it is possible to establish interprofessional teams able to integrate with…

Describes the Delta Health Education Partnership, an interdisciplinary distance education program intended to recruit, educate, and retain interdisciplinary groups of primary care health practitioners to increase access to health care in medically underserved and health professional shortage areas of the lower Mississippi Delta. It spans six…

Offers a cave-mapping problem and discusses how to solve it. Presents the problem and necessary geologic background and a spreadsheet algorithm to solve the problem. (KHR)

Introduces basic principles of coding and decoding including the use of letter frequencies to decode secret messages by using the radio premium codes of Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. (KHR)

Proposes that collaborative, constructivist, and problem-based learning are powerful conceptual antidotes to pedagogy as transmission and knowledge as parceled facts and objects. Notes that as more texts become available in digital form, users access information in different ways that have profound ramifications for reading and writing. Contends…

Provides background information on the artist Frederic Remington who was fascinated with the Old West in the United States. Discusses how students can learn about Remington, his art, and the Old West. Presents an art lesson where students create their own bronze horse sculptures in the style of Remington. (CMK)

Examines the status of foreign language teaching and internal and external factors that affect its status. Proposes solutions to problems in foreign language education, such as its isolation from other disciplines in the curriculum. Such solutions include communicating goals, developing cultural competence, and enhancing interdisciplinary…

Describes an evaluation of ArtsOnline, a Web site designed to support humanities-based interdisciplinary inquiry in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Discuses barriers and challenges that lessen the benefits of Web-based instructional technology, including poor Web site design, insufficient editing, low access to technology, lack of…

Describes a visual arts project that integrated science and art for first-grade students. Explains that the students created an ocean life batik on a cloth banner, describing the process in detail. States that the assignment used a cooperative approach. (CMK)