eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Social Studies?Techbooks. Featuring standards-aligned, core-curricular resources that use an inquiry-based approach to enhance literacy and critical thinking skills, Discovery Education’s Social Studies?Techbook? interdisciplinary K-8 resource,? Discovery Education’s?Social STEM Connect. STEM Connect ?blends

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STEM Textbooks Interdisciplinary Social Studies 244

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Civics Education Is at a Crossroads This knowledge gap is due in large part to the sidelining of K-12 social studies since the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside.

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History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Education Science 204

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The science of reading is a long-standing interdisciplinary body of knowledge that shows that to be proficient readers, kids need to be able to lift the words off the page—or decode—and then also need the language skills to understand them. How does Excite Reading support teachers in providing effective reading instruction?

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Reading Science Interdisciplinary Languages 177

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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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 306

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives. Social studies teachers also need more coaching and feedback to become effective service-learning facilitators.

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Learning Local Government History Coaching 205

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. Students at Dayton are focused on large interdisciplinary projects and problem-solving. I am by no means a game designer. EdSurge: Technology is an integral part of all learning experiences now.

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Teachers History Social Studies Learning 175

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2016

and international social studies, language, and interdisciplinary curriculum standards. Accompanying teacher or parent materials include lesson plans, global collaboration opportunities, a standards-alignment chart and scoring rubric.

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Interdisciplinary Culture Social Studies Participation 106

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What it looks like : Imagine a middle school math teacher who works with her specialist to create an interdisciplinary, maker-and-technology-infused lesson covering concepts like scaling, common denominators and equivalent fractions.

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Assignments Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 167

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

This year, a seventh grade English class designed games to highlight the theme in “The Giver” and a second grade class built gingerbread models of Chicago landmarks for an interdisciplinary math and social studies unit.

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Fairness Confidentiality Students Interdisciplinary 162

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Some interdisciplinary writing ideas include: Science: Have students write argumentative or informational journal entries on science-related topics, such as climate change, human impacts on the ecosystem, and important inventions we use every day.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Social Studies Patriot’s Pen is a nationwide youth essay contest organized by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) for students in grades 6-8. Knowledge Bowl Knowledge Bowl is an exciting academic competition where teams of four to six students tackle a variety of interdisciplinary questions.

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Critical Thinking Essay Participation Math 52

EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says. Students move back and forth all day in their neighborhoods to get their projects done,” Cryer says.

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Learning Elementary School Elementary School Learning Spaces 119