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Multidisciplinary Project-Related Websites
Hello
everyone!
Wealth
o’ Websites is in the process of moving and therefore has been quiet
now for several months. I will let you know when we arrive at our
new home sometime this summer. But in the meantime, I wanted to share
with everyone some Multidisciplinary Project-Related Resources collected
at the Philadelphia Education Fund.
 First,
an exciting new publication has just been published and is now available
(paper version) – "What Story Does the Work Tell?: A Resource
of Curricular Units, Student Work and Commentary by Philadelphia Teachers."
This
publication is packed with work done by Philadelphia teachers and
students during the 1998-1999 Mini-Grant Program sponsored by the
Fund. It is all about the Multidisciplinary Projects that groups of
teachers worked with their grant monies and shows examples of students
work, teacher rubrics, and resources for looking at student work.
An on-line version of the publication is currently under construction
and will be disseminated via this list as soon as it is finished.
In the meantime, we want to encourage people to call the Fund to request
a copy of the publication to be sent to their school. Contact Renie
Manzano at 215-665-1400, extension 3306 for a copy.
Secondly,
below are websites to support multidisciplinary projects collected
by Amy Cohen at the Philadelphia Education Fund. Amy is a teacher-on-special-assignment
here at the Fund this year. She also works with the Peace Corps World
Wise Schools program to develop on-line multidisciplinary units about
water-related issues in Africa.
We
hope you find something interesting and helpful here. Feel free to
email me with comments and/or suggestions. Thanks! –
Christina
Multidisciplinary
Project-Related Websites
The
following list of websites was compiled to help Philadelphia teachers
who are designing multidisciplinary units that will satisfy the School
District’s new Promotion and Graduation requirement. Many of these sites have links that can further
inform the design of challenging, engaging, and academically rigorous
projects.
Instructional
Technology Resource Teachers, Rochester City School District
Steps in Building a Unit of Study
www.servtech.com/~germaine/Steps.html
A great place
to start! This is a wonderful
site that summarizes the steps a teacher should take in creating a
learning unit using “Backward Design”, a planning process designed
by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.
You can see how Essential Questions, Multiple Intelligences,
and even Bloom’s Taxonomy can be systematically combined to develop
outstanding learning units for your students.
New
York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/index.html
Here you’ll find
a daily lesson based on an article from a recent edition of the New
York Times as well as a searchable archive of interdisciplinary lessons.
Objectives, materials, procedures, assessments, extension activities
and connections to the standards are all clearly laid out.
College
of Education, San Diego State University
Units of Study Examples
Edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596/Project1/EDTEC596Index.html
Edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596/ProjectsS98.html
Edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edweb.sdsu./courses/EDTEC5701
This site contains
examples of units developed at San Diego State University by students
taking a course entitled “Interdisciplinary Teaching With Technology.”
You’ll find lots of ideas for developing themes across the
curriculum and for integrating technology, but these units do not
include culminating projects.
National Geographic
is a wonderful site for teachers of science and social studies.
This area of the site -- magma.nationalgeographic.com/education/lesson_plans/index.cfm
-- is useful to teachers across all grade levels and disciplines. You’ll simply plug in a topic, a grade level,
and the subject areas you desire, and then any lesson plans that fit
your criteria will appear.
Teachers
First
www.teachersfirst.com
A good general
education site where you can find interdisciplinary projects and lesson
plans grouped by grade level. There are several complete units and lots of
ideas for additional resources.
Projects developed
by 9th grade students and teachers in North Hagerstown,
Maryland as part of the Interdisciplinary Team Organization Project.
This site presents interesting ideas for integrating field
trips into multidisciplinary units.
A web-based interactive
stock market learning project for both elementary and secondary students.
You can find ideas for putting math in the center of a multidisciplinary
unit.
Lesson plans
and learning units for a variety of topics, grade levels, and combinations
of disciplines.
This area of
Ask ERIC has many, many interdisciplinary lesson plans arranged alphabetically
by topic. As might be expected
with such a large collection of lessons, the quality varies a great
deal.
A compilation
of interdisciplinary units based on the theme of conflict resolution.
Assessing
student work can be the most challenging aspect of project design.
The following list of websites will give you examples of
rubrics that have been developed for a variety of types of projects.
A site with background
information about the “why” and “how” of rubrics in addition to sample
rubrics for several disciplines.
Build
A Recreation Center Evaluation
Rubric
www-ed.fnal.gov/help/97/neuberger/rubric.html
Rubric for a
geometry project involving the design of a recreation center
A useful rubric
for presentation skills and for assessing group work
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