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Classroom Webpages
Integrated Curriculum
Critical thinking and innovation will be among the most prized skills in the future workforce, where the ability to find solutions to unprecedented problems will be highly valued. Today’s students need to develop their abilities
- to think creatively,
- to develop ways to work collaboratively and to connect to the greater world, and
- to have an appreciation for imagination and aesthetics.
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Studies have shown that there are multiple types of intelligences, just as there are multiple types of learning styles. An integrated curriculum supports and enhances the core subjects, as well as nurtures and successfully addresses the individual talents of our students.
St. Michael’s has always incorporated the arts within the core subjects of math, science, language arts and social studies/history. With the addition this year of an Integrated Curriculum Coordinator, even greater emphasis is being placed on subject integration.
Thus far this school year, integration experiences have taken place in several grades:
- In 2nd grade, the students had fun crushing earth elements, soil, spinach, pomegranate, rocks and leaves into pigments, then creating paintings with the colors to support a science unit on soil and rocks, as well as a history lesson on the cave paintings of Lascaux, France which used art as a record of the past.
- In 8th grade literature class, presentation of the Billie Holiday jazz classic, “Strange Fruit”, reinforced the concepts presented by the reading of “To Kill A Mockingbird” and sparked a lively debate about racism and prejudice.
- A school-wide musical assembly presented by Michael Bayard to the students in K-4th and 5th -8th demonstrated principles of math, science, history and geography through the use of various multi-cultural percussion instruments.
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A Reference Manual on subject integration and individual Grade Level Binders with information on class integration experiences have been assembled. If you have questions about Subject Integration or would like to look at the Reference Manual to see how integration is enhancing the curriculum at St. Michael’s, please contact the Integration Coordinator, Gail Halverson.
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St. Michael's Episcopal Day School . 2140 Mission Ave. . Carmichael, CA 95608 . 916-485-3418
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