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cross-curriculum
By chris
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There are two ideas that I like:
- as often as possible, I use different texts for my reading and Language arts lessons: a web site ( i.e. The NASA website for anything about the solar system), Social studies textbooks,documents, websites for History, Arts etc, environmental print: a restaurant menu for problem solving skills, newpapers classified adds for maths again etc. My husband is great with a computer and he puts all my documents on CDRoms so we can work on it in the computer lab. Sometimes I give some reading to do on the CD for homework ( one copy per child) and the kids love it.
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two or three 'bigs' units per year that are truly cross-curricular. For instance Media month: we start with reading newspapers and go on to visiting a newspapers plant, interview a journalist, write our newspaper, figure out the costs of printing, photocopying etc...
A field trip provides another good cross-curricular unit: researching where to go, writing letters of inquiry, planning and preparing, figuring out maps and costs etc..
Hope this helps
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