1. Looking For Connections: An Interactive Dialogue about Integration Techniques

2. Questions to Ponder  What is integration?  Challenges?

3. Our Integration Journey

4. Always an Ongoing Process!  New materials  Different needs of students  We like change Note: It is not done in one year!

5. Work With a Colleague  Exciting and fun  Different styles  Constant dialogue, testing and revising  Pairing up our classrooms

6. Does Integration Save Time?  Not always…

7. Benefits  Gives students in-depth experiences  Helps meet more goals at once  More holistic view as students make connections  Addresses multiple intelligences  Provides added experience to students as they repeatedly apply the skills they are learning

8. Ideas for Getting Started  Map your curriculum

9. Use a Planning Tool  Grid examples

10. Examples

11.  Bit map of skeleton Bit map of skeleton

12. Science Notebook

13. Resources  Teaching manuals are providing many more integration ideas.  Websites http://www.my- ecoach.com/resources/curr_integ.html# map http://www.my- ecoach.com/resources/curr_integ.html# map

14. Go Forth and Integrate!