Integrating Math and Science (K-8)
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory has produced exemplary curriculum for several decades (*exemplary in that students have consistently made and maintained progress on many measures in contrast to students learning by other media)...
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http://www.sedl.org/expertise/math_science.htmlThe Southwest Educational Development Laboratory has produced exemplary curriculum for several decades (exemplary in that students have consistently made and maintained progress on many measures in contrast to students learning by other media). This site contains integrated studies in several topics, mud slide (environment) and biology and physics. They are solid and engaging.
Lesson plans integrating statistics and environmental topics, such as earthquakes, temperatures and weather, as well as sports stats were created at the University of Illinois.
Math/Science Nucleus serves as an online science resource center to assist teachers around the world. Their major goal is to develop problem solving capacity through science for the world's children and provides a free online reference science curriculum for elementary grades.
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Teachers often strive to integrate math and science and throw in the towel because so much work is involved. Sometimes the available units are really science with a bit of mathematics, simple enough for the whole class, grafted onto the science activities.Using such integrated units from the getgo is a good thing. Be sure to compare these units with national, state and local benchmarks in both math and science.
The "newer" math standards encompass statistical concepts and the MSTC materials are a good model of integrated curricula.
