eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2021

Thoughtfully-crafted STEM lessons that leverage technology-rich resources similar to what your students are using outside the classroom are great ways to engage students in interdisciplinary instruction. When you start with a book, it is easy to make those cross-curricular connections, because they already appear for you in the story.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2021

Third graders, for example, have created a Shaker Village, staging reenactments by blending history, mathematics, and language arts. They learn how everything fits together, and it becomes a fun and memorable approach to interdisciplinary learning. The Shaker unit is an excellent example of teacher-inspired learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You must have enough teachers, the right technology, and lessons that infuse STEM into all classes including history and English/language arts, just to name a few. A history teacher can take their students to virtually explore a battlefield, versus simply having them read accounts and examine photos. Forge community partnerships.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Third graders, for example, have created a Shaker Village, staging reenactments by blending history, mathematics, and language arts. They learn how everything fits together, and it becomes a fun and memorable approach to interdisciplinary learning. The Shaker unit is an excellent example of teacher-inspired learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Even incorporating history, such as the evolution of technology or major scientific breakthroughs, can contextualize STEM subjects in ways that feel relatable and meaningful. STEM storytelling combines language arts with STEM, enhancing students’ understanding of scientific impact through a historical or personal lens.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. Do graduate students themselves want to pursue interdisciplinary aims and become “wicked”? Those who have enrolled in intentionally interdisciplinary Ph.D.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

Each CoderZ course develops interdisciplinary skills like problem-solving, collaboration, and grit as well as core knowledge in physics, geometry, literacy, and algebra. Any teacher, even those without computer science expertise, can use CoderZ’s proven approach, which uses virtual robots to bring instruction to life.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Learners then work with partners to co-design interdisciplinary projects that both align with the academic and life goals of the learner, as well as the business or nonprofit needs of the partner. The model works with partner companies and organizations across Cedar Rapids to conceptualize projects learners might complete.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

And in September 2024, history took a bold turn as Kiski welcomed young women into its ranks and opened a new chapter in its storied legacy. With a rich history, an eye on the future, and a commitment to academic and athletic achievement, Kiski continues to redefine what it means to be a boarding school in the 21st century.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Learning from History We use the space race as a model for the type of transformation modern education programs must undergo. CTE Gets a Bad Rap All U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Educating for American Democracy: offers an interactive roadmap for using an inquiry model when teaching civics and history. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

STEM Career Coalition partners underwrite critical academic and career content available through the award-winning, flexible K-12 learning platform and STEM Connect , an interdisciplinary K-8 resource blending dynamic digital content with ready-to-use lessons and hands-on activities to enhance core curriculum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

But he says the conversations often fell off once he suggested adding subjects like history of science, philosophy or communication. Very few of them had any interest in interdisciplinary programs,” is how he remembers it. A handful of programs are emerging from the ground-up with interdisciplinary approaches embedded.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today, the award-winning science series NOVA , produced for PBS by GBH Boston, announced the launch of NOVA Science Studio , a new national program to teach and engage young people through an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on science communication, digital media literacy, and video production.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2022

After building relational trust, local community members share resources and context on local issues and history that I use to create lessons. Because I work with Indigenous students from tribal nations that are not my own, I approach these partnerships with cultural humility and willingness to listen.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives. history teacher in Pittsburgh. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. gathered on the National Mall at the end of April.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language. No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus. says students at his school learn all about the Civil Rights Movement, but less about African history and African influence. “My Cary Hunt, who teaches AP Seminar at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Ala.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature? Math is this general-purpose subject at school, but if it isn’t interdisciplinary, well, why not? If it isn’t serving history, English, geography and all the other subjects, why not? Absolutely. It might be looking at the linguistics of a novel.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At our university’s inaugural faculty-staff research symposium last fall, the two of us met on a drug history and policy panel, and discovered we were both teaching courses on drugs the following semester. We wanted students to gain both interdisciplinary and practical knowledge about drugs and addiction.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence. In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences. The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2018

The goal, she says, is to “bring our collective expertise to create blended, interdisciplinary, and multimodal learning environments.” The deal between Carnegie and Smithsonian marries two household names with an established history of developing and disseminating research-backed educational materials.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At our university’s inaugural faculty-staff research symposium last fall, the two of us met on a drug history and policy panel, and discovered we were both teaching courses on drugs the following semester. We wanted students to gain both interdisciplinary and practical knowledge about drugs and addiction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Construct a Hypothesis Through our school model, students experience hands-on interdisciplinary learning through projects, or expeditions, as we call them, that each last 10 to 12 weeks and require students to tackle real world problems that don’t have easy paths to solutions or one right answer.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Its learners receive all of their core academic content—English, history, social studies, and math—through competency-based online courses. They cover a myriad of topics, often in an interdisciplinary format: from Adulting 101, Renewable Energy, and Beekeeping to Comparative Religions and International Relations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. In “the real world” as teachers say, challenges are complex. You’re never just solving a math problem. You’re communicating, collaborating, managing yourself, the list goes on. STEAM , the CCLS ELA standards, etc.),

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Manegold says that teachers have already been using Minecraft to teach subjects such as History and Engineering by having students recreate three-dimensional replicas of ancient ruins, and he sees the addition of coding expanding the opportunities for educators to use the software for interdisciplinary learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

The best solution is a combination of those two, as outlined in an action plan from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who have studied school safety and gun violence for decades. Most had a history of school disciplinary infactionsactions. Secret Service in 2019. Nearly all experienced negative home-life factors.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

We are in the midst of one of the most disruptive, yet exciting times in history: The Information Age. Students are also creating more content than any generation in history, thus they learn in fundamentally different ways than we are used to. Life is irregular—thus, learning is irregular.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying voter behavior. And so we've seen not only a decline in civic education, but also what we call bubble sheet civics, where it's really focused on memorizing facts about history and reading legal cases. What can fields other than political science tell us about young voters?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

And this year’s predictions range from the abstract, such as “advancing cultures of innovation,” to more specific ones like an increasing appearance of new interdisciplinary studies on campus. Several of the ideas and challenges have landed a spot in the previous editions of the report.

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