Language of and Across Discipline
k-12
Big Idea
Across Disciplines- This icon promotes exploration of connections across, between and within subject areas, as well as supports an understanding of relationships of one topic to other subject areas.
Big Idea
Language of Discipline - This icon represents the complex and specialized language related to a topic or subject. It includes key words/phrases, signs/symbols, abbreviations, figures of speech, etc., necessary to understand the subject.
Directions
Define: use synonyms, antonyms, and symbol
Relate: make it personal (activate background knowledge)
Integrate: use real world current events
Apply: link to new learning
Relate: make it personal (activate background knowledge)
Integrate: use real world current events
Apply: link to new learning
When to Use - Across Disciplines
- describing the topic in terms of different disciplines
- prioritize various subject areas' importance to the topic
-identify relationships
-judge with criteria
-compare and contrast info
- prioritize various subject areas' importance to the topic
-identify relationships
-judge with criteria
-compare and contrast info
When to Use- Language of the Discipline
- identify/list/define the terms
- prioritize
- identify relationships (among terms)
- categorize the terms or tools
- judge with criteria (the specificity of the terms)
- distinguish appropriateness of usage of the terminology
- determine relevance
- prioritize
- identify relationships (among terms)
- categorize the terms or tools
- judge with criteria (the specificity of the terms)
- distinguish appropriateness of usage of the terminology
- determine relevance
Depth & Complexity: Langauge of and Across the Disciplines
Strategy Variations- Across Disciplines
Language Arts- biographies, journals, writing or reading related to a discipline
Math- geometry, architecture, art, maps, operations/computation/agriculture/business
SS- cultural advances in science and the arts, patterns, traits, products of an era, human behavior
Science- origins of laws, principles, theories, communicating research findings, quantities, measurements, and tools of the disciplines
Math- geometry, architecture, art, maps, operations/computation/agriculture/business
SS- cultural advances in science and the arts, patterns, traits, products of an era, human behavior
Science- origins of laws, principles, theories, communicating research findings, quantities, measurements, and tools of the disciplines
Strategly Variations- Language of the Discipline
Lang arts- descriptive words, interpretation of vocab, style, figurative language
Math- terms, signs and symbols of math areas, algebraic terms, variables, functions, operations, axioms and theories, metric and US measurements dispersion of data
SS- terms of geography, history, government, sociology, characteristics, features, elements, facts, evidence, chronology, statistical data
Science- matter, energy, heat, motion, forces, scale structure, heredity, interdependence, space time relativity, atoms, molecules, elements, particles, quarks, theories, laws, principles
Math- terms, signs and symbols of math areas, algebraic terms, variables, functions, operations, axioms and theories, metric and US measurements dispersion of data
SS- terms of geography, history, government, sociology, characteristics, features, elements, facts, evidence, chronology, statistical data
Science- matter, energy, heat, motion, forces, scale structure, heredity, interdependence, space time relativity, atoms, molecules, elements, particles, quarks, theories, laws, principles