A lesson sequence for Cross Curricular Teaching - STEM and learning outside
By Meridith Ebbs @iMerinet @MakeCreateEducate Updated - Originally written for Issue 2 of STEMed Magazine https://issuu.com/stemedmagazine/docs/final_stem_ed_magazine_issue_2 Cross-Curricular Teaching Cross curricular teaching is a pedagogy that can be used to address the time poor classroom. Currently many learning areas are taught in a silo’d fashion, using case studies and resources designed specifically for each subject worksheets for English, units designed for History and Geography and text books for Mathematics. With the curriculum being overcrowded if you can overlap key learning areas in your teaching it allows more time to cover additional content. Cross curricular teaching is when you teach English but complete a comprehension on the theory content associated with a Science unit. It is when you teach graphing in maths but use the results of a science investigation as the content rather than using favourite pizza toppings. Use mathematical language when discussing maps in Ge