Cross Curricular Integration

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Title: Cross curricular integration allows students to see the inter-connectedness between the Social Studies and the other subject areas in the school curriculum. The Social Studies is a multidisciplinary subject. Social studies topics can be horizontally integrated into other subject areas. In standard five classrooms, students begin world studies. Within this theme they learn “What’s in the news”. Such a topic can be used to reinforce or teach other topics in various subject areas. In this theme, students investigate the impact of local, regional, and international news and media. Students develop knowledge about world cities, basic economic concepts and begin to learn about becoming informed consumers. The newspaper is relatively cheap and a useful resource. The daily paper offers content that supports lessons and up to date events related to the curriculum. The newspaper can also be used to teach topics in social studies. Although students learn the newspaper in social studies it can be used to teach math, language arts, science, performing arts, health studies and agricultural science. The newspaper can be used to teach area, perimeter and currency in mathematics. Newspaper articles can be used to teach area and perimeter. Students can measure ads and calculate the area and perimeter of them. They can also choose two different sized ads and guess which one would have a larger area or perimeter. They can then calculate and see if they are correct. This method helps students have an appreciation for the newspaper and concepts in math. It helps them to understand the difference between articles and advertisement in terms of size. Grocery ads can be taken from the paper and have students make a list. They then calculate the bill and find the amount before and after tax. They can also be given a budget to spend and calculate how much they have saved. In this way

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