What is the most common pitfall of curriculum integration, according to the text?

Teachers treat curriculum integration as a goal

Which of the following illustrates supportive integration?

A teacher organizes reading instruction around a social studies theme

Why do the authors consider fusion integration to be more ambitious than supportive integration?

2 subject areas must be combined to help students form a new, unified idea

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the supportive approach to curriculum integration?

Planning time is less because teachers plan for 2 subjects at the same time

How does a cooperative biography serve both literacy and social studies?

Students read, write, and discuss for in-depth understanding

Which of the following is NOT a criterion for selecting the subject of a cooperative biography?

The students are likely to recognize the individual’s name

What best represents the authors’ stance toward curriculum integration?

Integration should be used to achieve important learning goals

Why do the authors label the Understanding Living Things unit a “fusion” unit?

The unit combines two subject areas together around a generalization

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What is the most common pitfall of curriculum integration, according to the text?
Teachers think of curriculum integration as a tool
Teachers use integration as a teaching strategy
Teachers fail to teach social studies as an integrated subject
Teachers treat curriculum integration as a goal
2
Which of the following illustrates supportive integration?
A teacher asks students to create a chart representing data they gathered
A teacher organizes reading instruction around a social studies theme
The Understanding Living Things unit described in the text
Students read both narrative and informational texts
3
Why do the authors consider fusion integration to be more ambitious than supportive integration?
None of the above
2 subject areas must be combined to help students form a new, unified idea
Supportive integration can be done without much effort
The teacher must be an expert in two subject areas
4
Which of the following is NOT a feature of the supportive approach to curriculum integration?
The goals of one subject area are achieved thanks to another subject area
Skills are used to achieve valued content goals
Skills are strengthened by being engaged with content
Planning time is less because teachers plan for 2 subjects at the same time
5
How does a cooperative biography serve both literacy and social studies?
Learning about a figure increases students’ knowledge of a time period
Students read, write, and discuss for in-depth understanding
Students are able to apply reading strategies to informational texts
None of the above
6
Which of the following is NOT a criterion for selecting the subject of a cooperative biography?
The students are likely to recognize the individual’s name
Studying the person brings students into contact with powerful ideas of SS
A wide variety of materials about the individual are easily available
The students are likely to find the person’s life interesting
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Why do the authors recommend that teachers ask students to compare different biographer’s work on the same subject?
To avoid using primary sources
To begin to understand bias
To gain multiple perspectives on the subject
So students won’t plagiarize
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What best represents the authors’ stance toward curriculum integration?
Integration should be used to achieve important learning goals
Integration is always the best approach
Integration has too many pitfalls to do regularly
Integration inevitably trivializes learning
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Why do the authors label the Understanding Living Things unit a “fusion” unit?
The unit combines two subject areas together around a generalization
Students bring many sources together to understand a generalization
The assessments are determined in advance
It expects children to use the textbook as a data source
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Which two subject areas are fused in the Seeds of Change unit?
Math and history
Astronomy and biology
Biology and history
History and political science

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