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One thing I believe many educators are missing is the idea of us teaching all disciplines in every subject. When I teach science I get to include language arts like vocabulary, writing, reading and even history. A teacher that teaches history or music will directly or indirectly teach other subject areas.

For example, there is a social studies {history} program for middle grade classes which we participate in. Students get to study the history of Philadelphia / Pennsylvania. It is called THE HISTORY HUNTERS YOUTH REPORTER PROGRAM. While they are in this program, students get to visit some house museums, do activities like find fossils and analyze them, look at the way people in the 18th century preserved food. They also did some activities about the underground railroad. Map reading and drawing were involved as well as songs by runaway slaves at that time.

Bottom line is that it is all inclusive and there is virtually no way for us to divorce one discipline from the other. The moment we get the vision and pass it on to our peers and students, the more effective it will be for us to effectively educate this generation of students.

Tola