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[[image:C4 logo_color.jpg align="left"]]Terminology
**Interdisciplinary/cross-curricular teaching:** involves a conscious effort to apply knowledge, principles, and/or values to more than one academic discipline simultaneously. The disciplines may be related through a central theme, issue, problem, process, topic, or experience (Jacobs, 1989); often seen as a way to address some of the recurring problems in education, such as fragmentation and isolated skill instruction. It is seen as a way to support goals such as transfer of learning, teaching students to think and reason, and providing a curriculum more relevant to students (Marzano, 1991; Perkins, 1991).


 * Curriculum integration & thematic teaching: ** terms used to describe teaching methods that include interdisciplinary studies.

**Cross-disciplinary:** Viewing one curricular subject from the standpoint of another (for example physics of music and the history of math).

**Potpourri Problem:** Units often become a sampling of knowledge from each discipline; there is a need for strong content scope and sequence for any interdisciplinary unit or course.

**The Polarity Problem:** Because teachers often feel “territorial” about their content areas, they are sometimes threatened when another discipline offers a differing viewpoint from their own.

Research on Teaching Research Writing Skills

 * PEW Research Center Paper: How Teens Do Research in the Digital World**


 * Nell Duke's student framework for how to evaluate websites**





Research on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning

 * How to Teach with an Interdisciplinary Approach - Carleton College**


 * Integrated Studies Research Review from //Edutopia//**


 * 10 case studies in interdisciplinary teaching**


 * NCTE Policy Paper: Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum**

Tips on Designing Project Based Learning
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