Ten Ways to Teach Across the Curriculum

1. Ask students to answer math problems by writing a paragraph explaining how they got their answer and how they might use this type of math problem in a real-world situation.


2. Encourage students to practice reading comprehension exercises on passages that cover science and social studies topics.


3. Take situations that present themselves in a fictional reading passage and ask students to solve the problem mathematically.


4. Request that students create illustrations, shadowboxes, or other creative pieces to express their understanding of scientific or mathematical processes.


5. Add depth to Social Studies topics by having students read biographies of famous figures in American history.


6. Games in P. E. can incorporate mathematical concepts, such as creating tables that show the speeds of different students or calculating the probabilities of different outcomes.


7. Discuss how scientific inventions and discoveries altered American history, such as the invention of the wireless telegraph and its impact on WWI.


8. Study the animals and plants featured in fictional reading, find the settings in the book on a map, and discuss what was happening in the country and world during the time that book was written.


9. Have a trivia relay - students break up into racing teams, and must answer questions from various areas of study before they can pass the baton.


10. Be creative! Listen to what your students are interested in and find ways to explore those topics in any curriculum.