Presents a one-day, integrated activity in which a class monitors several students simulating a NASA space-shuttle flight. Includes space-shuttle crew application and space-shuttle time line. (MKR)

Presents two activities created by preservice middle school teachers that integrate technology and real-life mathematics in algebra. (MKR)

By developing a sequence of mathematical models of harmonic motion, shows that mathematical models are not right or wrong, but instead are better or poorer representations of the problem situation. (MKR)

Drawing from current models, research, and science and mathematics education reform documents, this article first defines and/or delimits three broad domains of education: integrated school science and mathematics, assessment, and technology. A list of characteristics is derived, and two integrated school science and mathematics activities are…

Presents a description of the Rivers Project, cited as an integrated, multidimensional science, technology, and society project developed to introduce water quality dimensions into high school curricula. Discusses the telecommunications network that connects all the participating schools, individual school projects, and the national recognition…

Describes numerous ways in which a multimedia study of Africa provides rich opportunities for students to combine art, writing, literature, and social studies. (SR)

Proposes the utilization of graph theory to solve optimization problems. Defines the notion of spanning trees and presents two algorithms to determine optimization of a spanning tree. Discusses an example to connect towns by power transmission lines at minimum cost. (MDH)

This paper suggests that Edwin Ellis' model for integrative strategy instruction, as applied to teaching adolescents with learning disabilities, requires further development in two areas: (1) the issue of what constitutes a thorough and valid educational model, and (2) the issue of how educational change can be successfully implemented. (JDD)

This article updates the integrative strategy instruction (ISI) model used with adolescents with learning disabilities; addresses motivation, evaluation, and implementation issues; reviews research concerning the impact of ISI on students, its social validity with teachers and students, and its relation to motivation; and clarifies differences…

The project approach involves an in-depth investigation of a particular topic that integrates language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and the fine arts and extends over a period of several days or weeks. Discusses new ways to implement this approach in early childhood classrooms. (MDM)

Discusses the benefits of integrating the teaching of literature and painting. Describes the benefits to students in the understanding of both forms. Asserts that using visual arts improves students' motivation as well as their overall understanding of modernism. (PRA)

"Jog around the World" is an interdisciplinary, schoolwide activity. Each class collaborates to jog the equivalent of the earth's circumference during the school year, learning about the different areas as they go. The program develops cardiovascular fitness, builds responsibility, and is a unifying force within the school. (SM)

This article presents a series of steps to help sending and receiving teachers of children with disabilities who are making the transition from preschool to kindergarten. The steps help teachers plan for transition, develop and implement child preparation activities, and integrate preparation activities with existing curricular goals and teaching…

Describes an integrated approach to social studies in which students participate in literature studies by reading tradebooks. Explains that the children engage in individual and small group activities to construct meaning from the text. Suggests that children create dioramas, character charts, and a club form of activities rather than just…

Describes a teaching tool that helps students understand that science is not a fixed body of knowledge but a continuous, dynamic process of human searching for answers often over a very long period of time. Using historical vignettes (short stories), teachers can help students make connections between the past and the present. (ZWH)