Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

Web for curriculumintegration.Curricular ContentThe Fellows have developed curriculum on a variety of SMET topics and are working on others.Some of the topics show evidence of the kind of curriculum integration that is a goal of theoverall project. For example, the Fellows developed a class on pumpkins to conduct inconjunction with literature, writing and art activities that have been done in the classrooms formany years. These activities have included reading pumpkin stories every day during the unit,painting pictures and gluing cut-outs of pumpkins, etc. The class was used with first, second andthird graders in appropriate form. The children were first asked to brainstorm questions aboutpumpkins that were classified into various groupings