Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. 10 Math and Science Prompts for Interdisciplinary Writing Writing in math and science can be as easy as pi! That’s where journal writing prompts come in! Which do you choose, and why?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Subjects: English Language Arts, Writing-Essays A number of topics, questions to consider, and research ideas help high schoolers choose and debate their argument. When is it okay to break up with a friend?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When I was at TCEA last week, a teacher approached me after one of my sessions to ask if I had ever written about my experience planning interdisciplinary projects. So, I wanted to share the framework that my teaching team (English, history, and science) used when planning large scale interdisciplinary projects.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This understanding has deepened through my collaboration with Kathy Renfrew, whose journey from a self-proclaimed science-phobic classroom teacher to renowned STEM educator and leader illustrates the transformation that happens when educators break down traditional subject-area barriers and create truly interdisciplinary units.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Not only are science classes investigating questions and finding solutions, you’ll also encounter that in your English, fine arts and social studies classes. We try to guide students through interdisciplinary work.” ” Next page: How industry partnerships target the STEM gap.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. We use an interdisciplinary approach to the STEAM education we provide in our Digital Explorers program. Every day we get closer to answering those questions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Build a culture of curiosity and encourage questioning An environment that encourages curiosity and allows students to ask questions and explore concepts they’re genuinely interested in can significantly enhance engagement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

For instance, when discussing natural resources in geography, I pose a thought-provoking question: What is something you cannot live without? I pose the question: How can we identify an issue within the town of Lexington and address it while ensuring we do not contribute to urban sprawl? link] Moser, K. Ivy, J., & Hopper, P.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Their story, told in verse, features colorful illustrations and fun experiences which demonstrate problem solving, critical thinking, interdisciplinary learning, and more. This book was created around one simple question: how can we build more interest in coding,” explains Ray Ackerlund, Skyward’s chief marketing officer. “We

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. The question is, how do you ensure students are graduating with these skills in a way that sets them up for future college and career success?

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

When educators are comfortable with engineering, The engineering design process is a cycle that begins with a question: 1. Ask a question 2. Whether they go into engineering or not, the engineering design process is something that integrates a lot of important skills that are very necessary in the real world.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

As students plan investigations to answer a question posed to them, they conduct tests, record and analyze data, and communicate their results. The practices support interdisciplinary learning, too. Take a question and turn it into an investigation and project. Science practices. Relevant learning. Natural curiosity.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Conventional schooling often leaves students disillusioned, questioning their intelligence and value as it is framed by a system that needs an overhaul. They cover myriad different topics, often in an interdisciplinary format: from Adulting 101, Renewable Energy, and Beekeeping to Comparative Religions and International Relations.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Lessons include engaging student-facing videos that guide instruction, discussion questions, interactive activities, and practice. The In Context Pathway includes interdisciplinary lessons built to be incorporated into other parts of the school day- including ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies instructional time.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Its flexible, modular learning units give students an easy-to-follow experience using high-quality interdisciplinary resources that can be used in a wide variety of classrooms and across all subjects. Next page: Four important questions about STEM Connect).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This paradigm shift highlights a growing sentiment among recent high school graduates, who are increasingly questioning the value of pursuing a conventional four-year college degree and exploring alternative pathways.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

For example, one of our PBLWorks project-based learning experiences involves having students answer the driving question How do we inspire people to move to this region?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Although data science is interdisciplinary, one possible home for data science standards is in mathematics standards, as there are important mathematical tools and methods that support data science. Establishing standards is only the first step, though.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It is sponsored by the National Training & Simulation Association, which promotes international and interdisciplinary cooperation within the fields of modeling and simulation, training, education and analysis and is affiliated with the National Defense Industrial Association.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. I think about these questions each day as I prepare my students to pursue a career in education, and over the years, I’ve found that incorporating CTE skills into teaching helps students have a deeper learning experience.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Necessary infrastructure to support interdisciplinary programs August 9, 2023 Kimber McKay Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Montana The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. we’re already interdisciplinary!”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Units are designed to continually spark curiosity, prompt questions, and offer students opportunities to engage in engineering practices to make sense of the science around them. Active investigation of phenomena which prompts students to ask questions, build models, and develop explanations to generate evidence of sensemaking.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2023

Collaborative efforts, interdisciplinary workstreams and unified goals were instrumental in driving progress. Thorstenson explained, "We pulled in different departments, had interdisciplinary workstreams, procurement, e-teaching and learning, and we were all pulling in the same direction."

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

Very few of them had any interest in interdisciplinary programs,” is how he remembers it. One question is whether that will bring change to data-science curricula. A handful of programs are emerging from the ground-up with interdisciplinary approaches embedded.

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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. As a result, career education is not woven into the fabric of K-12 education, often leaving younger students to ask the age old question, “Why am I learning this?”

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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

MAY 13, 2020

At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. As an example, Trust pointed to an interdisciplinary choice board , which gives students multiple options for learning about a subject.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

For Puri, that is the next level of AI—its ability to not only say what something is, but to reason and understand the intent of its being, to answer the ‘why’ question. They ask questions because they are not shy,” says IBM Watson’s Chief Architect, Dr. Ruchir Puri, in an interview with EdSurge. Working with kids gives you grounding.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

That was the provocative question posed by Conrad Wolfram in a blog post earlier this summer. And then a bit later we have questions like, “Are Girls Better at Math?” As you see, these thing are quite fuzzy, they’re not like traditional math questions. Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences. I think what COVID has done for every sector, for every profession, for every discipline and for every sector of education is to [force the question], ‘what is really important?’ It’s a memoir called “ A Synthesizing Mind.”

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And it becomes this interdisciplinary lesson—part science, part math, part writing—where the students learn cause-and-effect problem solving. I try to teach my students to question more critically and use AI as a tool—but not a full answer. AI isn’t going away.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

” ESUSD’s AI Policy Lab is designed as a collaborative, interdisciplinary partnership that encourages responsible AI development, deployment, and usage. An interdisciplinary and international team assembled at CSHL’s Banbury Center to address the challenges of short STEM training programs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2023

There is no question that today’s schools are filled with digitally savvy children who have grown up with technology and the internet of things. Need your computer hooked up to the projector? There is a good chance at least one student can do it for you. Need help getting the WiFi booster to work properly? Ask a student.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This work supplies essential questions to hook K-12 students in thematic instruction. Let’s empower our teachers to lead the way by embracing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates SEL with service-learning in K-12 education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Those were just a couple of the questions raised on Tuesday, February 27 when the #DLNchat community got together to discuss: What Is the Role of Libraries in Digital Learning Innovation? The #DLNchat community named a few: learning commons, makerspaces, research showcase experiences and space for interdisciplinary discovery among faculty.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

This is the question that researchers at the MIT Media Lab are asking. Initially I was the one who questioned the word ‘community.’ Initially I was the one who questioned the word ‘community.’ But is coding preoccupying the hearts and minds of students after school hours? I mean, they were posting projects and writing comments.

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