Integrated Studies

See how students apply their literacy skills to explore science problems outside classroom walls.

Arts integration is more than an afterthought. You can use the arts to both meet your arts standards and deepen academic learning.

The perfect problem connects content, student interest, and an authentic context.

At Hood River Middle School, local experts make student learning come to life.

At Hood River Middle School, place-based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local geography, culture, history, and economy into classroom lessons.

Hood River Middle School collaborates on projects across subjects to make learning relevant, connected, and engaging.

Through the Piggy-Bank Friday program, K-5 students at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy have saved over $30,000 in one year.

From fairy gardens to garden towers, Walter Bracken STEAM Academy transformed its school grounds into a student-centered, garden-learning wonderland.

Educators at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy engage students by letting them choose outside-the-box enrichment classes, like toy making, drones, and candy chemistry.

At Charles R. Drew, they use design thinking for teaching engineering concepts to elementary students.

See how Ralston Elementary teachers combine two subjects in one lesson, giving their students a deeper understanding of the content and its applied interconnectivity.

By taking down the walls of their school and bringing learning into the community around them, Crellin makes education meaningful and magical for their students.

Inviting community members into the classroom to share their expertise can help bring lessons and learning to life for students.

Symonds Elementary uses schoolwide projects like bookmaking to combine academics and art in ways that excite and engage students, and make learning feel more personalized and fun.

At Albemarle County Public Schools, maker education fosters student autonomy, ignites student interest, and empowers students to embrace their own learning.

Students at Casey Middle learn more (and feel good about it) in a combined language arts/fitness class that boosts their cognition with aerobic and anaerobic activities.

Engage history students with the challenge of creating and producing their own radio program to share their knowledge and ideas with a wide audience.

For any project within a vocational major, High Tech High encourages teachers and students to include relevant content from other subject areas to enhance real-world connections.

High Tech High School's four academies provide students with a range of vocational majors, connecting them with real-world contexts and teaching 21st-century skills.

By connecting the theme of sustainability across multiple disciplines, the teachers at Montpelier High School have built a robust, integrated teaching approach that engages students and creates community.

Maybe teaching isn't about delivering information. Maybe it's really about providing a landscape where curiosity takes root, growing a unique, vibrant, continual source of knowledge.

Members of the Loseke family use STEM skills each day to run their ranching business. See how Elisabeth, Erika, and Cort apply these skills in everything from veterinary science and nutrition, to agriculture and meteorology.

Follow Mariah's journey from informal learning as a kid with a passion for science to a young adult on a STEM career path.

Each student at Normal Park Museum Magnet School creates a unique “travel journal” to explore the themes of science and social studies units.

Students at Normal Park Museum Magnet School create various types of museum-style exhibits to demonstrate their understanding of academic topics.

For Normal Park students, the entire community of Chattanooga, Tennessee -- from museums and cultural centers to local businesses and natural areas -- provides opportunities to make real-world connections to the curriculum.

Collaboration with local museums and community organizations offer Normal Park students real-world connections to the curriculum.

Partnerships with local arts organizations can bring much-needed resources to your students without much cost, and can provide students with new outlets for creativity and ways to develop essential critical thinking and collaboration skills. Explore more resources from this school – http://www.edutopia.org/stw/glenview-case-study-video

Skate veteran and educator Bill Robertson, also known as "Dr. Skateboard," teaches students who might have otherwise fallen through the cracks about speed, velocity, and momentum at the local skate park.

High school student Shayanna develops her talents at Youth Speaks, a nonprofit that creates a safe space for young people to explore writing and performance skills in the service of bettering their communities.

High school student Pierre combined biology, math, economics, and more to transform his campus greenhouse into a sustainable aquaponic system that provides fresh vegetables for the cafeteria.

Mimi Ito, an expert in young people's use of digital media, shares her research on informal learning in online communities, where students can build technology skills, learn media literacy, and create and share their work.

Teaching about finance begins in kindergarten at Ariel Community Academy, a public K-8 school on the South Side of Chicago, with the goal of helping students develop the critical decision-making skills that will guide them later in life.

The noted neurologist turned educator talks about the science of boredom, how to get students' attention, and the most important lessons for 21st-century learning.

Video: Teachers Dayna Laur (AP government) and Katlyn Wolfgang (art) at Central York High School in York, PA, share their strategies for creating successful integrated studies projects.

Employers helped design the program at the Minnesota Business Academy charter school.

Pennsylvania fifth graders enter a national Space Day competition, designing solutions to problems real astronauts face.

A commitment to serving the local community motivated the University of Southern California University Hospital and Keck Medical School to develop internships for students at Bravo Medical Magnet High School who, in turn, mentor elementary school students.

A new approach to career and technical education is engaging high school students by combining rigorous academics with hands-on learning in specific fields of professional study and training.

Dea Flores travels across Los Angeles for a rigorous education at Bravo Medical Magnet High School.

This successful performance artist credits his career pathway program for making high school relevant.