Learning objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
Understand the concept of curriculum integration, including intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary integration;
Design and implement approaches to integrating teaching across several learning areas in the curriculum; and
Recognise the benefits and issues pertaining to integration in science teaching.
Introduction
Primary school teachers raise concerns that a lack of time and space to deliver science within an already overcrowded curriculum impacts on their willingness to teach science. In resolving this concern, teachers may consider working with the curriculum in more creative ways. Science is well positioned as a learning area because its topics provide a context into which different learning areas can be integrated, such as literacy, numeracy and the Arts. This chapter will bring to life some innovative and interesting ways in which science can be taught in an integrative way to enrich learning across several discipline areas. It will discuss the concept of the integrated curriculum, approaches to its implementation and the benefits and drawbacks associated with it.
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