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Download full textBackler, Alan – 1988
This ERIC Trends Issues paper highlights the complementary qualities of geography and history and recommends the infusion of geography core themes into high school U.S. history courses. Part 1, "Rationale for Teaching Geography in American History," features information about: (1) overcoming the neglect of geography instruction; (2)…
Descriptors: Fused Curriculum, Geographic Concepts, Geography, Geography Instruction
Rooney, Thomas – 1989
Few U.S. high school students know art or music history, but the languages of the arts should not be foreign to anyone. History should be taught as an exploration of human endeavors and expressions. History provides the framework to help people learn the changing forms, styles, and functions of the arts, religion, philosophy, and other humanistic…
Descriptors: Dance, Fused Curriculum, High Schools, History
Kronish, Miriam; Abelmann, Jeryl – 1989
Integrating the arts from the preschool level through graduate school enables students to develop their creativity and their ability to reason, draw abstractions, analyze, give personal meaning to what they are learning, and to express themselves in very powerful and fulfilling ways. Students must be taught with a variety of approaches to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Ballard, Lizabeth B.; Anderson, Ray – 1994
This brief descriptive guide is a pilot social studies- language arts course at Haviland High School, Haviland, Kansas. The two-hour course is team taught and seeks to combine the junior year of U.S. history and the junior year of English in an interdisciplinary class. The project began in 1990 with the school's designation as a pilot school for…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Design, English Curriculum, Fused Curriculum
Selwyn, Douglas – 1995
This bulletin is designed to help teachers integrate the arts and humanities into the social studies curriculum. The volume includes three chapters. Chapter 1, "Learning Through the Arts," features the following sections: (1) "Integration"; (2) "Assessment"; and (3) "References and For Further Reading." Chapter 2, "Using Theater in the Classroom,"…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Culture, Fine Arts, Fused Curriculum
Lounsbury, John H., Ed. – 1992
Interdisciplinary education has been considered a key element of middle level education since the 1960s. Interdisciplinary teaching teams and multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary units of study have been frequently found in middle level schools since then. Although changes have been incorporated to support it, actual implementation of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Fused Curriculum
