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Description:
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Integration is an approach to teaching in which learning experiences are intentionally designed for students to construct and demonstrate understanding in more than one discipline (e.g., science, language arts), which honors the nature of the contents and builds upon the natural connections.
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The "Grade 6 Integrated Concepts" tab contains a standards crosswalk organized by the number of connections made between a particular standard and others within the 3rd grade standards (beginning with those standards that have the most number of connections and concluding with those that have fewer).
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This document is designed to be used by communities/educators seeking to engage in 6th Grade Content Integration. It contains resources in the tabs below related to making sense of where different core content standards in the subjects of Social Studies, Health Education, Mathematics, English Language Arts and Science have natural connections. PLEASE NOTE: This is not a mandate regarding where to integrate, but rather a starting place for educators to find opportunities to incorporate integration.
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The "Content Practices" tab contains the practices that are crucial to each content area organized into general categories (discourse, justificaiton, modeling, etc.) that can be used for integration.
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The "Standards Overview" tab contains a summary of each of the content area standards included in this document.
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The tabs with titles associated with the content areas each contain a full standards description, along with where each of the standards from that content area overlap with standards from other content areas.
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Use Cases:
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An elementary teacher may use the "Integrated Concepts" tab to identify which standards most frequently overlap with standards from that grade level in order to identify activities that touch on multiple content areas for students at the same time.
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An elementary teacher may focus on the Practice Themes across subject areas so that, for example, students would be using the same structures to build discourse skills in social studies as they are in health.
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A school or team of teachers may use all of the tabs to build an integrated project for their students, that uses the integrated concepts tab to identify what knowledge the students would be learning and the Practice Themes to build out a rubric to assess the project. These skills would represent the application of the knowledge the students learned.
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The * in front of standards listed throughout the integration crosswalk indicates a (possible) ethnic studies connection within the core standard. These standards may have a particular focus on increasing cultural awareness, shared identity, character traits, the perspectives/ contributions of diverse ethnicities, a student's unique characteristics, or cultural histories.