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What We Learned | Crafting Standards-Based Lessons
Crafting standards-based lessons has taught our 'Curriculum Connections' columnists a thing or two. They share their insights in this article.
Our Ecological Footprint | Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum
Exploring the impact of human activity on the environment provides high school students with an opportunity to understand ecological issues from the inside out. By conducting hands-on research, teens have the opportunity to interact with their surrounding environment, collect evidence, and analyze results—and the implications for their community.
Lincoln: A Multifaceted Man | Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum
The number and variety of books published about Abraham Lincoln provide teachers with an opportunity to explore the structural devices used in texts as they consider the man and his legacy from a range of perspectives.
Earthquakes and Eruptions | A Standards-Based Lesson
Join these educators as they brainstorm the curricular possibilities and connections between earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics in a standards-based lesson.
Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum: Measurement
Have you used a tape measure or a ruler lately? Figured out what coins to give a cashier? If you have, then you know how important measurement is in your daily life. This lesson plan provides a look at how children’s literature can support young children as they learn about standard measurement.
Work and Wages: Inquiry Across the Curriculum | On Common Core
Stories about labor and the economy continue to dominate headline news. In what ways does a “rising tide lift all boats"? What is the real minimum wage required to bring working families out of poverty? These and other important questions can be explored in the context of today's curriculum standards.
Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum | Natural Selection and Adaptation
In a lesson designed for middle school students, the authors investigate questions about the evolution of life on Earth through the lens of contemporary standards.
Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum: Global Citizenry
When the new social studies and the Common Core standards are used together to plan curriculum, the result is a truly powerful, integrated approach to learning. Here's a lesson that shows the way.
Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum | On Common Core
The new Next Generation Science Standards, released last April, are performance standards, created to demonstrate not merely what students will know, but what students will know how to do. They have been written with direct connections to the Common Core. Here is a sample lesson working within both sets of standards.
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