Cross-Curricular teaching is the essence of collaboration for students' learning—a fundamental way to teach concepts in the context of multiple subjects at once. It requires the math teacher to align with the literature teacher, who aligns with the art teacher. Cross-Curricular teaching is a fresh perspective for teaching and for learning.
Some Benefits
Connecting even two subjects together with a similar lesson focus can deepen the learning for students who often ask “When will I ever need this?” The purpose is to expand learning at all levels.
Some Benefits
Connecting even two subjects together with a similar lesson focus can deepen the learning for students who often ask “When will I ever need this?” The purpose is to expand learning at all levels.
- Brock Centre for Sport Capacity provides high school cross curricular resources that can be accessed as a free resources for teachers. They provide assessments as well as final summative assignments that can be used, manipulated and adapted to meet the needs of the specific class.
A common course that can be connected to several other disciplines is the Art curriculum. I have included the image of the creative process to show that the creative process that is used in the creation of art, is not different then the creative process that is used when discovering about historical events or in a technology class. There is no need for any one discipline to be separated from the other. We no longer live in a world where someone is an expert in one thing and maybe knows a little about something else. We are all generalists in several subject areas, and use our digital literacy skills to uncover the information that we are missing.
Code.org is a resource that can be used to connect coding into art, or can be used to connect to a history or geography curriculum. The linked Village coded art is a concept of something that could be used cross-curricularly when discussing migration patterns of a First Nations tribe or the set up of a traditional Native village. It can also be used to create a map that can log the different stopping points that Harriet Tubman made along the Underground Railroad, or a map of the different locations that Tecumseh was instrumental in the War of 1812.
Popplet is another resource that can be utilized when working with our students. It is actually quite user friendly and I can see it being beneficial to help teach our students how to properly organize their thoughts. This is one that I designed to help students to organize their ideas when working through creating a workout routine in a fitness class. I can see it being good resource to use connecting English and history, for example, regarding how to properly arrange ideas for writing a properly structured paper/report
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