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Interdisciplinary aspects to social skills

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Interdisciplinary aspects to social skills

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Interdisciplinary lessons cross disciplines, or subject areas. I feel like my job as a social skills teacher for students with all their academic classes in general education is inherently interdisciplinary. I support the kids with their reading and writing skills, help them understand concepts in math and science by re-teaching concepts in a way that they can more readily assimilate into their knowledge base. I work with them on social studies facts and historical concepts. The ABLE II paraprofessionals and I support our students' ability to succeed in PE by going over the idea that winning or losing a game in PE is a little deal vs. a big deal. I talk with students about adjusting to teacher expectations in tech and being open to working on something other than highly preferred subject material in art. In social skills we do a lot of role-playing of social situations which involves language and acting skill, reminiscent of theater or acting out a play in ELAR. We have outside playtime which is sometimes similar to PE. We do creative projects relating to social stories, social history, social experiences, incorporating art. We talk about social expectations for behavior, addressing legal restrictions, and potential legal consequences, which is a little bit of real world application of social studies.

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To me interdisciplinary means the learning will be across subjects or including more than one subject that  enhances the learning for students by cementing the concept being taught by providing more information or examples for students. 2) Currently my class is doing a research packet which includes biographical information about people in our social studies curriculum. This is how my team has incorporated social studies into our writing which is time effective and provides the benefit of allowing for more time to learn about the historical figure. _Sammy

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To me interdisciplinary means the learning will be across subjects or including more than one subject that  enhances the learning for students by cementing the concept being taught by providing more information or examples for students. 2) Currently my class is doing a research packet which includes biographical information about people in our social studies curriculum. This is how my team has incorporated social studies into our writing which is time effective and provides the benefit of allowing for more time to learn about the historical figure. _Sammy

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1.  To me, interdisciplinary means involving many subjects. Therefore, an interdisciplinary lesson would incorporate connections tying more than one subject together.
2.  Currently, I am making connections within my lessons to concepts and topics in science, i.e. chemistry, biology, physics. In my class, we are doing a unit on measurement and discussing/practicing how important it is to include units and how they are related through conversions. We use units in geometry for length, area and volume just like we use those same units in chemistry. I have a science background and make many analogies for my students relating the two subjects.
--Alexander Smalls

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Interdisciplinary means to me when you incorporate other subject areas into the content you teach. For example, I am an art teacher. I incorporate English into my class room by having my students interpret the art of poetry when the English classes cover poetry. This way the get to learn about it from a different perspective. We draw each line of the poem in our own interpretation in order to see the full picture.
-Kimberly Hubbard

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Interdisciplinary means to incorporate another subject into your lesson. I teach ELAR and I recently did this through a class debate on the topic: Are zoos a good thing or a bad thing? My students got to research the different factors around the issue of animals in captivity. I could easily incorporate social students by bringing in articles that talk about civil rights, for example. Math, on the other hand, is hard to incorporate. Overall, my students struggle with math and I wouldn't want their struggle with the subject to be a distraction for what I'm trying to teach.
Yanet Pintor

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1. Interdisciplinary means to me the interconnection of more than one type of knowledge at the same time.
2. I am a first grade self contained bilingual teacher, and in my classroom there is interdisciplinary teaching taking place with science and reading and then with the combination of writing/math/reading as well. With science and reading I usually choose science texts (plants, animals, water cycle) and introduce them to the science aspect of it as well as ensuring they talk about the importance of this knowledge and also the importance of recognizing text features (NF texts) as well as pointing out that the knowledge was made available by us reading the text. Writing is an important subject that in our school is not giving a lot of time and I use the math block and reading block to have stations and opportunities in whole group to have reflection writing time, problem solving writing time. We talk about the importance of being able to be understood and how when you know how to write and can communicate those concerns or comments, people will be able to listen.
Marah Garza

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(1) Interdisciplinary teaching is the combining of one or more educational disciplines in order to utilize skills and knowledge from both and address a particular learning goal. (2) In my content area, physical science, I have to integrate a number of linear algebra skills. In many ways physical science is applied basic mathematics and I have to take an interdisciplinary approach to make sure students have the skills to approach problems and understand concepts.   

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(1) Interdisciplinary teaching is the combining of one or more educational disciplines in order to utilize skills and knowledge from both and address a particular learning goal. (2) In my content area, physical science, I have to integrate a number of linear algebra skills. In many ways physical science is applied basic mathematics and I have to take an interdisciplinary approach to make sure students have the skills to approach problems and understand concepts.   

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1. Interdisciplinary instruction is when you combine two or more subjects into a lesson. 2. I teach science so I am able to incorporate math, geography/social studies and reading/writing throughout the year.

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1. Interdisciplinary instruction is when you combine two or more subjects into a lesson. 2. I teach science so I am able to incorporate math, geography/social studies and reading/writing throughout the year.

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Interdisciplinary instruction is when you incorporate multiple subject areas into the lesson you are teaching. For example if you are teaching a reading lesson, you can make it interdisciplinary by reading about a lesson you learned in science or counting the words in the title. 

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Interdisciplinary instruction is when you incorporate multiple subject areas into the lesson you are teaching. For example if you are teaching a reading lesson, you can make it interdisciplinary by reading about a lesson you learned in science or counting the words in the title. 

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I could incorporate other disciplines into my writing lessons by having students write about what they are learning in science and social studies. I could also incorporate other disciplines into my math lessons by having using counting stories to help them practice counting.

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Interdisciplinary instruction is when you combine more than one subject together and crea a more meaningful lesson.

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Interdisciplinary instruction is when you combine more than one subject together and crea a more meaningful lesson.

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I try to combine other subjects into lessons, such as cause and effect into social studies for the revolution, and compare and contrasting in science for weathering. I also try to incorporate other subjects in small ways into lessons, like calculating how much time passed between events when reading a biography.
Rocio Garcia Rios

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1) Interdisciplinary means that you are incorporating two or more subjects in your lesson at the same time.
2) I currently am incorporating science and reading together. I do this by picking a nonfiction text that goes over the science topic we are covering at the time. We then use our reading strategies to work through the passage (ex. Identifying text features)
-Jonathan Klinkerman

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1) Interdisciplinary means to combine two or more fields of study. In this way connections between ideas and concepts can be made resulting in a deeper learning experience.

2)Main Subject: Social Studies. I’ve incorporated a lot of reading and writing using Readworks.com. Students also take two days out of the week to improve literacy by reading a content-based novel and working on IXL-Language Arts. When learning about the geography and natural resources of a region we often must touch on scientific studies like geology, meteorology, climatology, biology, and oceanography. Most of it I go over during the geography portion of the unit by examining maps and completing Edpuzzle videos. We do also touch on math when it comes to economics. Students must read charts and graphs and determine economic levels of development using economic indicators like life expectancy, child mortality, GDP, Per Capita GDP, literacy rate, etc.

- Serdalia Garza

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1. Interdisciplinary means combining two or more subject areas to aid students in the learning process.

2.  I teach ELAR and during our reading of a fiction piece entitled, Life on Mars. I incorporated Science because the students were required to explore the advantages and disadvantages of living on another planet and whether or not the atmosphere on Mars would be harmful to human life.

DeAndre' K. Bell

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1. Interdisciplinary means to combine two or more subject areas in your classroom to assist students in making real-world connections.
2. As my 5th graders are preparing to take their Science STAAR, I am giving them more science based selections so they can see the information in other formats other than in their science class.
Susie Nguyen

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Interdisciplinary teaching  methods involve combining two or more disciplines or fields such as science and reading or socials studies and writing.  You teach several subject in one unit while relating them to one another so the students make connections as to how they relate to the world around them.

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Interdisciplinary teaching  methods involve combining two or more disciplines or fields such as science and reading or socials studies and writing.  You teach several subject in one unit while relating them to one another so the students make connections as to how they relate to the world around them.

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Jacquelline Aceituno

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1. Interdisciplinary means that more than one discipline (i.e. math, science) are being incorporated into a lesson. In elementary school, a teacher may do a unit on a subject that would include lessons in social studies, science, math and reading.

2. In my special ed math class, I have worked with science  to incorporate weather (temperature) with math (graphs). We have  learned how to represent data (temperatures) using tables and graphs such as line plots, bar graphs, and line graphs. We have also recognized the differences in representing categorical and numerical data .

J Goins

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Interdisciplinary means incorporating elements from and supporting other content areas during instruction.  For example, right now my students are getting ready for Science STAAR.  I am currently reviewing nonfiction in my classroom (ELAR).  I am working with the Science department to incorporate content from their lessons in my nonfiction review. Other ways to integrate content from other areas into my ELAR classroom might be supporting Social Studies during research activities, or by supporting Math by integrating books such as "Fraction Action" during a unit on fiction.

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Interdisciplinary means incorporating elements from and supporting other content areas during instruction.  For example, right now my students are getting ready for Science STAAR.  I am currently reviewing nonfiction in my classroom (ELAR).  I am working with the Science department to incorporate content from their lessons in my nonfiction review. Other ways to integrate content from other areas into my ELAR classroom might be supporting Social Studies during research activities, or by supporting Math by integrating books such as "Fraction Action" during a unit on fiction.

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1. Interdisciplinary means integrating 2 or more subject areas into a lesson.

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1. Interdisciplinary means integrating 2 or more subject areas into a lesson.

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2. I give students passages that relate to what they've done in other classes. I have previously given students a passage on life cycles because I knew they were studying that in science. We also used a lot of passages that connect to social studies, mostly passages related to the Civil War and Slavery. Next year, I plan to read a book to my students that addresses slavery and the civil rights movement, as well as World War I.

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1. Interdisciplinary  means to combine or include 2 or more subjects during one lesson. 

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1. Interdisciplinary  means to combine or include 2 or more subjects during one lesson. 

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2. One way that I am incorporating other disciplines into my content area is by incorporating reading strategies to look at newspaper articles during Social Studies. We analyze and annotate section by section of the article to understand a non-fiction work.
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1. Interdisciplinary means overlapping the study of two different areas during the course of a lesson. It is used to help students make real world connections within their learning.

2. In ELAR classes, we are constantly providing context to students within history and science areas of study. Students read texts within these disciplines, however if we had more time I would love to make this crossover more applicable to real-world situations by providing students more hands-on activities.

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1. Interdisciplinary means to include two or more academic subject areas during the course of a lesson. 2. As a Social Studies team, we are incorporating Science concepts as it relates to geography and the ecological effects that come with prolonged farming. 3. We will continue to tie in how natural resources changed and altered history as we review the major eras of history during STAAR Review.

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1. Interdisciplinary means to include two or more academic subject areas during the course of a lesson. 2. As a Social Studies team, we are incorporating Science concepts as it relates to geography and the ecological effects that come with prolonged farming. 3. We will continue to tie in how natural resources changed and altered history as we review the major eras of history during STAAR Review.

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Shakirah Thomas

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1.	Interdisciplinary is when you combine two or more subjects into a lesson.2.  I try to incorporate science and social studies into reading and writing because the students do not receive enough instruction in science and social studies. I also have science stations during math station rotation and social studies stations during reading station rotation.  Ashley Cofer

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1.	Interdisciplinary is when you combine two or more subjects into a lesson.2.  I try to incorporate science and social studies into reading and writing because the students do not receive enough instruction in science and social studies. I also have science stations during math station rotation and social studies stations during reading station rotation.  Ashley Cofer

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Interdisciplinary means to incorporate examples or make connections between 2 or more subject areas. For example, when discussing the independent and dependent variables in math, a conceptual link may be formed to describe the same variables from a scientific perspective. Students may be reminded of a previous lab experiment that they might have performed in science class. I am, currently, incorporating other disciplines in my content area by having students write in math and use complete sentence stems, when answering questions in a whole group class discussion. Students might be answering rationalization or analytic questions, to absorb the mathematical concept. These are English Language Arts and Reading Skills being used, partially, or as needed. Science can be incorporated into math because concepts of conversions, measurements, and variables are commonly used in both subjects. Measuring ratios of liquid water and solutions are chemistry and basic algebra concepts.

Hiba Iqbal

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Interdisciplinary means to incorporate examples or make connections between 2 or more subject areas. For example, when discussing the independent and dependent variables in math, a conceptual link may be formed to describe the same variables from a scientific perspective. Students may be reminded of a previous lab experiment that they might have performed in science class. I am, currently, incorporating other disciplines in my content area by having students write in math and use complete sentence stems, when answering questions in a whole group class discussion. Students might be answering rationalization or analytic questions, to absorb the mathematical concept. These are English Language Arts and Reading Skills being used, partially, or as needed. Science can be incorporated into math because concepts of conversions, measurements, and variables are commonly used in both subjects. Measuring ratios of liquid water and solutions are chemistry and basic algebra concepts.

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Interdisciplinary means to incorporate examples or make connections between 2 or more subject areas. For example, when discussing the independent and dependent variables in math, a conceptual link may be formed to describe the same variables from a scientific perspective. Students may be reminded of a previous lab experiment that they might have performed in science class. I am, currently, incorporating other disciplines in my content area by having students write in math and use complete sentence stems, when answering questions in a whole group class discussion. Students might be answering rationalization or analytic questions, to absorb the mathematical concept. These are English Language Arts and Reading Skills being used, partially, or as needed. Science can be incorporated into math because concepts of conversions, measurements, and variables are commonly used in both subjects. Measuring ratios of liquid water and solutions are chemistry and basic algebra concepts.

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What interdisciplinary means to me is the connection of two or more subject areas in one. One way that I am incorporating this in the classroom is by adding writing. For example, during reading, students are required to write annotations on the passages, such as visualizing what they read in each paragraph. Writing can also be added to math when students have to create their own word problems with a given number sentence. This activates their creativity while improving their writing skills.

-Cindy Candia

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Interdisciplinary mean connecting with things outside of your direct content area.  I currently use interdisciplinary examples and metaphors in class to help student forge a connection.  Interdisciplinary lessons can also include outside skills or talents, such as artistic or dramatic skills, which can be used to help illustrate a concept or topic. 

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Interdisciplinary mean connecting with things outside of your direct content area.  I currently use interdisciplinary examples and metaphors in class to help student forge a connection.  Interdisciplinary lessons can also include outside skills or talents, such as artistic or dramatic skills, which can be used to help illustrate a concept or topic. 

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Interdisciplinary means incorporating two or more disciplines (e.g. reading/social studies) to meet the intended learning target. In my content we read a high amount of non-fiction text. We have begun using the same annotating process that is used in ELAR. We have also implemented the THIEVES strategy in order to assist students as they analyze non-fiction text in class. I could incorporate math and science into the classroom. Charts and graphs is one of our lowest TEK I could collaborate with my team members in order to take a uniform approach to analyzing data. L.Silva

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Interdisciplinary means incorporating two or more disciplines (e.g. reading/social studies) to meet the intended learning target. In my content we read a high amount of non-fiction text. We have begun using the same annotating process that is used in ELAR. We have also implemented the THIEVES strategy in order to assist students as they analyze non-fiction text in class. I could incorporate math and science into the classroom. Charts and graphs is one of our lowest TEK I could collaborate with my team members in order to take a uniform approach to analyzing data. L.Silva

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1. Interdisciplinary means incorporating instruction across multiple subjects. For example, reading teachers might include content that supports social studies or science objectives. This allows students to make more connections to learning and can be beneficial to helping students expand their background knowledge and increase retention of content.
2. I have incorporated other disciplines into my teaching throughout the year. I read "The Watson's Go to Birmingham" with my class and we paired it with mentor texts and activities that taught about the civil rights movement while I taught reading comprehension and characterization. I also am currently using science texts that support both the science objectives and reading's expository objectives.
-Laura Nelson

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Interdisciplinary means incorporating different subjects across the board. Students learn better when learning from one discipline connects with another one. For example teaching a unit on animal life cycles in science could connect to reading by reading a text about animal life cycles. Currently, I like to connect our reading to science and social studies because we spend less time on those subjects. We are talking about different parts of plants right now so I used a poem about plants during writing to introduce writing poems using sensory details. I feel it makes learning meaningful to kids when they see it across different disciplines.

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1. What does interdisciplinary mean to me? Interdisciplinary means incorporating more than one subject in a lesson. Having the students connect two or more subjects in one assignment and for them to be able to see the correlations and connections between the two subjects. 

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1. What does interdisciplinary mean to me? Interdisciplinary means incorporating more than one subject in a lesson. Having the students connect two or more subjects in one assignment and for them to be able to see the correlations and connections between the two subjects. 

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2. How are you currently incorporating other disciplines into your curriculum?
I teach ELAR and i have integrated science into the students writing. The students had to write a persuasive text and I had the students persuade someone to live in the planet they chose. The students have been learning about the solar system so I incorporated it into my lesson. The students had to use facts about the planet they chose and persuade people to move and live there. The students then created a picture to along with their writing.
3. I can incorporate more science into their writing and even social studies. I try to incorporate other subject areas but I do not do it often. Having the students pick which subject to incorporate into their writings.

Nancy Martinez

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1. Interdisciplinary means to incorporate different subjects in your classroom. This allows students to make connections from their other class and see the importance of that subject and how everything is connected.
2. I teach science and the most obvious connection is Math.  We use Math when teaching chemistry, physics, and finding mass,volume, etc. in labs.

Suzanne Hamon

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1. What does interdisciplinary mean to me?  Interdisciplinary is a term used when a teacher incorporates more that one subject into a lesson.  For example, I teach math.  I could incorporate another subject, like science, into my lesson and teach both math and science.
2. How are you currently incorporating other disciplines into your content area instruction? I don't often incorporate other disciplines into my lesson, but I do mention it sometime. One time I did incorporate science was when we had a full time that was also a super moon and a blue moon. I incorporated all of those explanations of those 3 terms along with the math of an elliptical orbit and distance to the moon. 3. How might I incorporate other disciplines? My first thought is in writing. Math has many vocabulary words that I would better incorporate into writing about them and well as definitions.

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In my mind interdisciplinary learning is teaching multiple subjects in one or more lessons so students see how they can be connected.  I've talked about inferences when teaching students how to know what to do with word problems.  We learned about measurement conversions in Math this year.  I spoke with my students about how they would need this skill in science.  I would like to do more of this in the future so students see how the subjects are connected.

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In my mind interdisciplinary learning is teaching multiple subjects in one or more lessons so students see how they can be connected.  I've talked about inferences when teaching students how to know what to do with word problems.  We learned about measurement conversions in Math this year.  I spoke with my students about how they would need this skill in science.  I would like to do more of this in the future so students see how the subjects are connected.

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Interdisciplinary means using content and skills from other subjects to teach my lesson objectives or vice-versa. You could also use your content to support other disciplines. For example, I have used and incorporated terminology from Biology, Algebra, and English in my direct instruction. I have also tried to incorporate other subject areas by using real-world examples from their career paths to explain economics or the importance of a well-rounded education. 

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Interdisciplinary means using content and skills from other subjects to teach my lesson objectives or vice-versa. You could also use your content to support other disciplines. For example, I have used and incorporated terminology from Biology, Algebra, and English in my direct instruction. I have also tried to incorporate other subject areas by using real-world examples from their career paths to explain economics or the importance of a well-rounded education. 

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To me, interdisciplinary means cross curricular covering two or more content areas for content or a lesson. I do incorporate interdisciplinary in my in my lessons with projects that require research, essays, and poster projects. In fact, the genetics project my students completed  had an extensive essay that I did collaborate with a writing teacher on the best way to show my students how to write. 

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To me, interdisciplinary means cross curricular covering two or more content areas for content or a lesson. I do incorporate interdisciplinary in my in my lessons with projects that require research, essays, and poster projects. In fact, the genetics project my students completed  had an extensive essay that I did collaborate with a writing teacher on the best way to show my students how to write. 

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-Michelle Hernandez

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Interdisciplinary study is when two or more content areas overlap in the context of a lesson. In my class, this can be achieved quite simply. As a reading class, we have content skills related to reading, but we are able to incorporate a great number of varied topics... we have read about Ferguson, MO and the shooting of Michael Brown, we have read about #MarchForOurLives, we have read about Jean Lafitte, The Louisiana floods of 2016 and Hurricane Harvey, we have read about Day Zero in Cape Town, South Africa... in this way, we discuss current events, history, science, etc. in the completion of our reading assignments.

-Melissa Hodgkins

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To me, interdisciplinary means to connect the content that you teach to content in another area. Its having a thematic approach to lesson planning and delivery. Currently I have my students complete Stemscopes reading, writing, math or art assignments that are related to the content they are learning. 

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To me, interdisciplinary means to connect the content that you teach to content in another area. Its having a thematic approach to lesson planning and delivery. Currently I have my students complete Stemscopes reading, writing, math or art assignments that are related to the content they are learning. 

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-Jamilleah Daniel

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Interdisciplinary means teaching a topic that incorporates more than one subject area. For example, I used a theme poem (poetry) from writing and reading to a science lesson about the weather and seasons by having the students create an online theme poem about the science topic. We are about to start research in Reading and we are also going to study an animal in another subject so I am hoping to integrate the various subject matters into the research topic of animals. I may even find a way to make math more fun with it. 

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Interdisciplinary means teaching a topic that incorporates more than one subject area. For example, I used a theme poem (poetry) from writing and reading to a science lesson about the weather and seasons by having the students create an online theme poem about the science topic. We are about to start research in Reading and we are also going to study an animal in another subject so I am hoping to integrate the various subject matters into the research topic of animals. I may even find a way to make math more fun with it. 

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Interdisciplinary means including two diverse subjects into your lesson. Sometimes it can be more than 2 subjects! 

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Interdisciplinary means including two diverse subjects into your lesson. Sometimes it can be more than 2 subjects! 

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2) How I am incorporating other disciplines is that in math we are doing a lot of reading with story problems and we read math books that have math problems in written form! I also have students  write their own story problems.
3) I would like to include more math into my science lesson. I am going to do an experiment on the growth of plants and then I will have students practice their math TEK of measuring.

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1. Interdisciplinary is when you combine two subjects into your lesson.
2.  I try to incorporate as much social studies as I can into my  lesson. As we know social studies is not heavily pushed so in writing I have the students tell me what they know about a current even matter.
3. I would love to begin incorporating math into my lesson. I need to take an initiative to find or get with the math team for some relevant word problems.

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We've spoken with our English department about incorporating History related readings into their class and using those readings to further our instruction as well that go along with our current curriculum.