Integration with Other Subjects

Bickart
• Integrate science with social studies to help children make connections

Kilmer
• Extend activity to relate to other curriculum areas
e.g. write a story, song, art activity, books that relate

Holt
• Doesn't really address

Chille
• Integration from the perspective of the child, not the topic.
• Extending and connecting the curriculum
• Get ideas by observing children
• Consider varying scale
• Vary properties of material
e.g. role a thick liquid down an incline instead of a ball
• Create a way to challenge what a child has already done
• Connecting with literacy

Questions

How can technology be used or integrated to enhance a science curriculum in the classroom? When children undertake design activities using technological tools (such as robolab), are they doing science inquiry?