Integrated Studies
by Edutopia, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
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Description
The challenges of today's workplace and modern social life require a new kind of educated citizenry -- people who not only have mastered the academic basics but can also apply their knowledge across disciplines to solve complex problems, come up with new ideas, and collaborate with diverse and dispersed colleagues. In an integrated curriculum, subjects are not dissected and separated into discrete chunks. Instead, teachers and students work together in making curricular connections around a theme or topic. Traditional schedules and use of classroom spaces are altered to allow team planning and shared collaborative class time.
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| 1 | VideoAn Introduction to Integrated Studies | is, integrated studies, Sir Ken Robinson, School of Environmental Studies, Ferryway, interdisciplinary | 7 10 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoCommunity Partners: Making Student Learning Relevant | At Hood River Middle School, local experts make student learning come to life. | 20 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoCollaborative Planning: Integrating Curriculum Across Subjects | Hood River Middle School collaborates on projects across subjects to make learning relevant, connected, and engaging. | 20 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoPlace-Based Learning: Connecting Kids to Their Community | At Hood River Middle School, place-based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local geography, culture, history, and economy into classroom lessons. | 20 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoPiggy-Bank Friday: Life Skills Through Financial Literacy | Through the Piggy-Bank Friday program, K-5 students at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy have saved over $30,000 in one year. | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoGarden-Based Learning: Engaging Students in Their Environment | From fairy gardens to garden towers, Walter Bracken STEAM Academy transformed its school grounds into a student-centered, garden-learning wonderland. | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoInterest-Based Electives: Engaging Students With STEAM Explorations | Educators at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy engage students by letting them choose outside-the-box enrichment classes, like toy making, drones, and candy chemistry. | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoElementary Engineering: From Simple Machines to Life Skills | At Charles R. Drew, they use design thinking for teaching engineering concepts to elementary students. | 25 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoDepartmentalization and Integration: Deeper Learning for Elementary Students | See how Ralston Elementary teachers combine two subjects in one lesson, giving their students a deeper understanding of the content and its applied interconnectivity. | 14 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoIntegrated Learning: Broadcasting and Social Studies | Engage history students with the challenge of creating and producing their own radio program to share their knowledge and ideas with a wide audience. | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoPlace-Based Learning: Using Your Location as a Classroom | By taking down the walls of their school and bringing learning into the community around them, Crellin makes education meaningful and magical for their students. | 9 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoLearning Partners: Co-Teaching With Community Experts | Inviting community members into the classroom to share their expertise can help bring lessons and learning to life for students. | 9 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoBookmaking Across Subjects: Making Learning Last Longer | Symonds Elementary uses schoolwide projects like bookmaking to combine academics and art in ways that excite and engage students, and make learning feel more personalized and fun. | 6 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoMaker Education: Reaching All Learners | At Albemarle County Public Schools, maker education fosters student autonomy, ignites student interest, and empowers students to embrace their own learning. | 21 9 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoArts Integration for Deeper Learning in Middle School | Critical thinking, risk taking, and collaboration -- along with academics and discipline -- are just some of the areas where Bates Middle school educators report big improvements since integrating the arts across all subject areas. | 7 9 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoFit Lit: How Movement Impacts Learning | Students at Casey Middle learn more (and feel good about it) in a combined language arts/fitness class that boosts their cognition with aerobic and anaerobic activities. | 17 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoIntegrated Learning: One Project, Several Disciplines | For any project within a vocational major, High Tech High encourages teachers and students to include relevant content from other subject areas to enhance real-world connections. | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoIntegrating Academic and Vocational Learning at High Tech High | High Tech High School's four academies provide students with a range of vocational majors, connecting them with real-world contexts and teaching 21st-century skills. | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoIntegrated Studies: Sustainability and Cross-Curricular Connections | By connecting the theme of sustainability across multiple disciplines, the teachers at Montpelier High School have built a robust, integrated teaching approach that engages students and creates community. | 6 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoLearning STEM Through Agriculture on a Nebraska Farm | Members of the Loseke family use STEM skills each day to run their ranching business. See how Elisabeth, Erika, and Cort apply these skills in everything from veterinary science and nutrition, to agriculture and meteorology. | 29 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoTrees of Knowledge | Maybe teaching isn't about delivering information. Maybe it's really about providing a landscape where curiosity takes root, growing a unique, vibrant, continual source of knowledge. | 30 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoInformal Learning From STEM Clubs to Careers in Science | Follow Mariah's journey from informal learning as a kid with a passion for science to a young adult on a STEM career path. | 8 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoLearning Beyond the Classroom Walls | Collaboration with local museums and community organizations offer Normal Park students real-world connections to the curriculum. | 27 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoTravel Journals - Student-Created Textbooks | Each student at Normal Park Museum Magnet School creates a unique “travel journal” to explore the themes of science and social studies units. | 27 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoUsing Exhibits as Assessment | Students at Normal Park Museum Magnet School create various types of museum-style exhibits to demonstrate their understanding of academic topics. | 27 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoLearning Expeditions - Rethinking Field Trips | For Normal Park students, the entire community of Chattanooga, Tennessee -- from museums and cultural centers to local businesses and natural areas -- provides opportunities to make real-world connections to the curriculum. | 27 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoLearning the Physics of Skateboarding Engages Kids in Science | Skate veteran and educator Bill Robertson, also known as "Dr. Skateboard," teaches students who might have otherwise fallen through the cracks about speed, velocity, and momentum at the local skate park. | 19 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoSpoken Word Poetry Empowers Students to Use Authentic Voices | High school student Shayanna develops her talents at Youth Speaks, a nonprofit that creates a safe space for young people to explore writing and performance skills in the service of bettering their communities. | 24 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoHow Gardening Enables Interdisciplinary Learning | High school student Pierre combined biology, math, economics, and more to transform his campus greenhouse into a sustainable aquaponic system that provides fresh vegetables for the cafeteria. | 29 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoMimi Ito on Learning in Social Media Spaces(Big Thinkers Series) | Mimi Ito, an expert in young people's use of digital media, shares her research on informal learning in online communities, where students can build technology skills, learn media literacy, and create and share their work. | 22 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoHow Expanded Learning Time Builds Positive Culture and Academic Performance | -- | 21 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoReal-World Internships Lead to College and Career Readiness | At MC2 STEM High School in Cleveland, Ohio, students are paired with industry mentors in order to learn science, technology, engineering, and math skills. | 4 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoTeaching Grade School Students How to Make Global Impact | At John Stanford International School in Seattle, teacher Nicole Silver offers a Festivals of Light unit to encourage global perspectives in her students. | 7 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoKhan Academy Explores Hands-On Learning | The Khan Academy is well known for its online video lectures, which have the potential to free up time for more hands-on learning in the classroom. In their Discovery Lab summer camp, Khan Academy staff experimented with project-based learning activities | 3 1 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoGetting an Early Start on Financial Literacy Pays Off | Teaching about finance begins in kindergarten at Ariel Community Academy, a public K-8 school on the South Side of Chicago, with the goal of helping students develop the critical decision-making skills that will guide them later in life. | 3 4 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoMixing Art + Politics -- Integrated Studies in High School | Video: Teachers Dayna Laur (AP government) and Katlyn Wolfgang (art) at Central York High School in York, PA, share their strategies for creating successful integrated studies projects. | 30 8 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoConnecting High School to College and Career | A new approach to career and technical education is engaging high school students by combining rigorous academics with hands-on learning in specific fields of professional study and training. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoAcademies Raise the Bar at a Comprehensive High School | Focusing on careers in green energy and manufacturing technology improves attendance and test scores at Laguna Creek High School in Elk Grove, California. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoPartner with Local Arts Organizations | Partnerships with local arts organizations can bring much-needed resources to your students without much cost, and can provide students with new outlets for creativity and ways to develop essential critical thinking and collaboration skills. Explore more resources from this school – http://www.edutopia.org/stw/glenview-case-study-video | 21 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoA Magnet School Attracts Students to Careers in Health | Bravo Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles offers internships in medical offices and advanced research labs where students can learn real-world skills. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoAnimation as a Pathway to College and a Career | Students learn advanced computer programs, anatomy and teamwork by taking a series of animation classes at Sheldon High School in Sacramento, California. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoA Big, Diverse California District Embraces Academies | Multiple pathways of career technical education lead to academic rigor and success on a district-wide level at Elk Grove Unified School District in California. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoUniversity Teams Up with Local Schools to Advance Careers | A commitment to serving the local community motivated the University of Southern California University Hospital and Keck Medical School to develop internships for students at Bravo Medical Magnet High School who, in turn, mentor elementary school students. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoDea Flores Turns Video Games into a Winning Science Fair Project | Dea Flores travels across Los Angeles for a rigorous education at Bravo Medical Magnet High School. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoDavid Garibaldi: From Outlaw to International Hip Hop Artist | This successful performance artist credits his career pathway program for making high school relevant. | 7 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoWaldorf's Integrated Way of Learning | Alternative education, Rudolf Steiner, exercise, arts education, drawing, John Morse Waldorf Methods School, Sacramento | 18 9 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoBig Thinkers: Greg Mortenson on the Power of Education | Editor's Note, 4/18/11: According to numerous press reports, including CBS's "60 Minutes" broadcast on Sunday April 17th, there are many inaccuracies in Greg Mortenson's books "Three Cups of Tea" and "Stones Into Schools." Edutopia is following these reports closely and will provide clarifications for our audience as soon as we know more. Meanwhile, we suggest that readers proceed with caution before involving students in the Pennies for Peace program mentioned in this video. Pennies for Peace is a project of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute, founded by Mortenson. "60 Minutes" has raised questions about CAI's financial accountability. | 11 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoTech in Real Life: Clearfield High School | technology integration, tech, high school, Utah, technology tools as teaching aids, laptops, projector, interdisciplinary, cross-curricular, cross curricular | 27 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoCommon Sense: An Overview of Integrated Studies | is, integrated studies, Moanalua, Randy Nelson, Landry, NatureMapping, Sir Ken Robinson, School of Environmental Studies, Ferryway | 7 10 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoThe Edible Schoolyard: Martin Luther King Junior Middle School | emotional intelligence, environmental awareness, recycling, eating healthy, composting, gardening, organic | 27 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoTurning on Technology: Ferryway School | Boston, Quizdom, Saugus Iron Works, ironworks, national park, water wheel, fifth grade, ISTE, biomes, Malden, formative assessment, authentic assessment, ferryway | 27 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoArt Works: Boston Arts Academy | art, art integration, art appreciation, arts education | 28 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoTurning On the Switch: ASCEND School | expeditionary learning, immersion education, PBL, non-traditional education, parental involvement, low-income schools | 29 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoTeam Learning: Landry Middle School | team, cooperative, multi-grade, multi-age, working together, learning together, rural public schools, improving self-esteem | 29 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoLeading with Laptops: Maine Laptop Initiative | one-to-one laptops, computers in classrooms, innovative idea, technology integration, tech | 29 8 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoIntegrated Studies in Honolulu: Moanalua High School | tech integration, computers, multimedia, PBL | 10 9 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoJourney North: Rockledge Elementary School | nature awareness, nature, learning about nature, science and nature, technology integration and nature, Journey North | 10 9 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoLearning and Working in the Collaborative Age: Randy Nelson | Pixar, Collaboration Age, Apple, AELS, Apple Educational Leadership Summit, Speaker Series, stw, school-to-work, school to career | 19 9 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoOpen-Air Education: West Hawaii Explorations Academy | innovative education, taking education outdoors, pbl, place-based, place based, service learning, alternative | 17 11 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | VideoDeep Learning: An Interview with Elena Aguilar | training, integrated lessons, teacher development | 14 1 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoArt Enhances Achievement | music, opera, tucson, gene jones, magic flute, singing, dancing, wendy joy koltnow, violin, Papageno | 28 1 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoStudents Troubleshoot Spaceflight Snafus | Pennsylvania fifth graders enter a national Space Day competition, designing solutions to problems real astronauts face. | 21 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoKids Learn the Connection Between School and the Real World | Employers helped design the program at the Minnesota Business Academy charter school. | 21 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoBig Thinkers: Judy Willis on the Science of Learning | The noted neurologist turned educator talks about the science of boredom, how to get students' attention, and the most important lessons for 21st-century learning. | 6 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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- Language: English
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