Teaching · For Teachers

Cross-Curricular Integration Planner

Join two subjects where the task genuinely needs both: a goal for each, explicit teaching of each, and real time on the joint task.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the For Teachers toolkit, $79 for 92 items.

Plans

Each plan keeps the subjects, their goals, the link and a timed lesson. Load the worked example to see a 60-minute rainfall lesson.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
An integrated lesson with the subjects, a goal for each, the joint task and why it needs both; a timeline that adds up against the lesson and shows the minutes on the joint task; six checks marked ready, not yet or not needed; and a run sheet with the goals to print.
Who it is for
Elementary and middle school teachers and teaching teams planning lessons across subjects.
Format
Browser tool with a saved record per integrated lesson. Prints a run sheet with clock times, the full integrated lesson, every integrated lesson in a table or a blank form; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Choose the subjects.
  2. Write a goal for each.
  3. Say why the task needs both.
  4. Lay out the lesson and mark the checks.
  5. Print the run sheet for the team.

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Integration that earns its time

A real link, or a decorationDecorationCounting apples in astory about applesThe second subject hasno goal of its ownNothing is assessed initReal linkRainfall graphs thatbecome evidence in awritten claimEach subject has its owngoalThe task needs both tosucceedTest itRemove one subject: doesthe task still work?If yes, the link isdecorationIf no, both subjects aredoing workA real link, or a decorationDecorationCounting apples in a story about applesThe second subject has no goal of its ownNothing is assessed in itReal linkRainfall graphs that become evidence in awritten claimEach subject has its own goalThe task needs both to succeedTest itRemove one subject: does the task stillwork?If yes, the link is decorationIf no, both subjects are doing work
An integrated task is worth the time when it needs both subjects. The planner keeps a goal for each and measures the minutes spent on the joint task.

Kinds of integration

Integration runs from subjects taught side by side on one theme, to shared skills across subjects, to tasks that need both subjects at once. The planner measures the last kind: the minutes spent on a joint task. Side-by-side teaching still has a place, as the first two segments of the example show.

Keep both goals

Integrated units lose value when one subject becomes decoration. A goal and a rubric row for each subject keep both honest.

Sources

  1. Fogarty, R. (1991). Ten ways to integrate curriculum. Educational Leadership, 49(2), 61-65.
  2. Drake, S. M., and Burns, R. C. (2004). Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum. ASCD.
  3. Beane, J. A. (1997). Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education. Teachers College Press.
  4. Wiggins, G., and McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by Design (2nd ed.). ASCD.

The worked examples are made up. The 30 percent and 25-minute flags are planning rules of thumb. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.