http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec570/
This course will teach you how to develop learning experiences that involve multiple subjects, multiple teachers, multiple students learning together and multiple technologies. It will focus particular attention on the most exciting technology now becoming available to schools: the World Wide Web. Thinking skills development will also be stressed. This course is an integral part of the Teaching, Technology and Restructuring Partnership at O'Farrell Community School and Morse High School.
Here you can post questions for others in the class to ponder. Guest speakers from afar will also be visiting here.
The EDTEC 596 Chat Room
You can interact with your teammates here in realtime from home.
Our experimental graphical chat area in which you can interact with and make faces at your classmates.
Short lessons and activities which involve guided inquiry on the Web. An online rubric is available.
Final Projects: A Complete Interdisciplinary Unit
Units which combine perspectives of two or more disciplines and involve various uses of the internet. An online rubric is available.
Steps in Building a Unit of Study
A well done summary of the unit design process developed by Instructional Technology Team Leaders in the Rochester (NY) School District.
A readable review of the research by Kathy Lake. A taxonomy of methods of interdisciplinary curriculum design is presented along with recommendations for practitioners.
What's Essential? Integrating the Curriculum in Essential Schools
Presents a thoughtful overview of the issues involved in devising curriculum that emphasizes thinking skills across disciplines. Published in Horace, a journal based at Brown University and produced by the Coalition for Essential Schools.
Cross-Curricular Thematic Instruction
This article by Mary Ellen Vogt describes the interdisciplnary design process with a sample planning web and evaluation rubric.
Mathematics Integration: a Common-Sense Approach to Curriculum Development
An article by Heidi Hayes Jacobs taken from The Arithmetic Teacher.
CONNECTING THE CURRICULUM WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY
A bibliography developed by the Wisconsin Department of Education.
ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center
ERIC, of course, is the best way to find articles, research reports, lesson guides, conference papers... anything that has to do with education and training.
Cohasset Middle/High School Page
Ken Cisneros, a Massachusetts science teacher, keeps this interesting page up to date with example interdisciplinary units, articles, and other resources for teachers.
A class project from Brown University. What would an ideal school look like if it were built around thematic units that cross disciplines? This paper spells one answer out in detail.
Integrating the curriculum: First steps
An article reprinted from The Reading Teacher by SDSU's Diane Lapp and Jim Flood.
Topics and Themes in Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Article from the Middle School Journal written by Gillian E. Cook and Marian L. Martinello.
Critical Thinking Bibliography
Terrific list of books on critical thinking.
An interdisciplinary unit based on the stock market.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development using Telecommunications
Description of a project by Eileen E. Schroeder, Anne Zarinnia and David Griffey of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Units
A set of questions that teachers should ask themselves while designing interdisciplinary units. From "Problem Solving and Critical Thinking in Mathematics" by Claudette Rasmussen and Cathy Cook, June 1990.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Planning
Adapted from Carla Mathison and Cheryl Mason, College of Education, San Diego State University, Planning Interdisciplinary Curriculum: A Systematic and Cooperative Approach; presentation to: ASCD Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, 1989.