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"An approach to planning curriculum in which knowledge and skills in several curricular areas are combined to accomplish an authentic task"

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A project that is reflective of real-life situations.

Examples in a secondary classroom:

Examples in an elementary classroom:

  • Humanities: Help a local animal shelter (Cache Valley Humane Society)
  • Science: Find and promote ways to help with the air quality of Cache Valley
  • Social Studies: Involve students in the election process (watch debates, research the platforms of the candidates, etc.)
  • Math: Conduct a survey to see the students in your school's feelings towards math. With your class's help, think of ways to help raise their classmate's views on the subject (offer math tutoring, show how it applies in real life situations, etc.)
  • Any Subject: Encourage the student body to take pride in their school
  • Encourage everyone in the school to implement some sort of environmental change (recycling, producing less waste, conserving energy, composting, etc.)
  • Beautify an area
  • Have an older grade tutor students of a younger grade
  • Give students of the oldest grade school "jobs" (library duty, lunch server, peer tutoring, school news, hall monitors, etc.)
  • Write and publish a class book

Why use authentic tasks?

Integrated Curriculum Projects

  • To help students see the practical applications of school subjects in real-life problems.

  • To show students that they need to use their knowledge in multiple disciplines to complete real-life work.

Using Authentic Projects to Integrate Content Knowledge

Meghan Iverson

TEAL 4770

  • Give ELLs an opportunity to use vocabulary from different subjects in multiple contexts.

  • Provide opportunities for ELLs to practice using vocabulary in real-life situations.

  • Engage ELLs in activities that require them to collaborate with their peers in small groups.
  • Present the project or possible project and have students brainstorm ideas about what might be accomplished.

  • Will enhance their intrinsic motivation.

  • It is important that students are excited to complete the project.

Involve students in project planning

  • Science and social studies curricula
  • National or local news events
  • Service project needs in the school, community, or your own classroom.

Be alert to curriculum possibilities related to:

How integrated curriculum projects help English language learners:

Step 1: Identify an authentic project opportunity

  • The project has to have a purpose. Keep the grade level standards and objectives as well as the language objectives of your students in mind.

  • List other groups, organizations, teachers, and administrators who can be enlisted to support the project.

Step 2: Relate the project to grade-level & ESL standards

  • What you want to achieve (the end products or accomplishments).
  • The problems you will need to overcome.
  • The people who will need to be involved.

As a class, identify the following:

Step 3: Identify the class goals

Divide the labor

Give each group a list of responsibilities and a checklist of tasks to be carried out

Establish working groups and their assignments

Form cooperative groups, making sure that the ELLs are paired with strong language models.

The Steps in implementing integrated curriculum projects:

Step 4: Establish working groups and their assignments

Plan ways to involve the cooperative groups in studying, planning, implementing, and celebrating each step of the way.

Step 5: Integrate learning

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