Integrated Unit and Seemless Curriculum
Motivation through Integrated Units and Seemless Curriculum
HOW TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS
ART
- The Digital Exquisite Corpse Project - Integrate Art and Computer Technology into the Classroom
- CARTOON ART AND SONG
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ART AND MATH
MUSIC
TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG - this is an excellent interdisciplinary resource that will inspire.
TEACH SCIENCE THROUGH SONG - Interdisciplinary K12 Science.
TEACH MATH WITH MUSIC
Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Mathematics Teaching Idea
TEACH 3 SUBJECTS: SCIENCE, MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY - Integrate 3 subjects using Science, Music, and Technology by teaching students to become Ham Radio Operators with a Free Tutorial. They can learn to guard our airwaves and even save lives in an emergency. Find Crystal Radio kits online and much much more on this page.
TEACH ACROSS THE CURRICULUM - Cross-Curricular Thematic Instruction explains what a Thematic Reading Curriculum is all about.
Cross-Curricular Thematic Instruction
MaryEllen Vogt has built this comprehensive site with information
on what cross-curricular thematic units are, how they are
developed what are their advantages and useful ideas for
assessment and getting started. Very useful.
Learn about the American Virgin Islands and First Nation People
- Gullah Languages a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina.
- An Interdisiplinary Thematic Unit for the United States Virgin Islands
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Hear and Read the Virgin Island Anansi, Tekoma, and the Cow's
Belly Folktale
A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in
Standard English and Negerhollands English - translated and spoken by Dr. Robin Sabino. -
Learn More American Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Language
Kwa is considered to be a language family. Kwa is not a language but a large cluster of more than one hundred languages spoken in south of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. Twi (Akan Ashanti...) is a Kwa language. All Kwa languages are tonal languages. Ijo, spoken in the delta of Niger, is also a tonal language. - What is a Tonal Language?
- A thematic reading module includes music, reading and technology integrated into the classroom.
- First Nation People - ThanksGiving, Native Geometry and Mayan Math
interdisciplinary | thematic | Curriculum | education
Marion Brady Resources
Marion Brady's Introduction to A Seamless Curriculum
A curriculum that respects the integrated nature of knowledge will
permit a quantum leap in student performance. If, however, you
think having different fields of study interlock and reinforce
each other is a good idea, and are interested in several hundred
activities that do that, plus push kids to use every known thought
process, plus engage at least some lousy students and challenge
your best, plus move steadily from simple to ever-more-complex
ideas, plus give you lots of latitude for exercising your
creativity.
Marion Brady's Web Resources for Integrated Thematic Teaching and Curricula
Defintion of Supradiscipline
Start off in the right direction. Just about everything that's wrong
with the traditional curriculum stems directly or indirectly from
the awkward, artificial, arbitrary way the disciplines take reality
apart to facilitate specialized study.
Offer an alternative way to segment reality—the "supradiscipline" implicit in our ordinary, non-school approach.
This supradiscipline has five components
. Dealing with reality, we note
(a) time frame, (b) setting, (c) participant actors, (d) physical
action, and (e) the states of mind that "explain" the action. When?
Where? Who? What? Why?
These five "mega-concepts," with their supporting conceptual
substructures, encompass, organize, and integrate all present
knowledge. All future knowledge will be a product of the
exploration of relationships between them.
The instructional challenge is to make our implicit supradiscipline
explicit, elaborate it until it encompasses and organizes everything
known, and make it our major tool for understanding reality and
coping with life.