Integrative Studies

"Integrative studies involves bringing together typically disconnected subjects

so that students can arrive at more meaningful and authentic understanding."

Students build and demonstrate interdisciplinary understanding; bring together concepts, methods, or languages from two or more disciplines or established areas of expertise in order to explain a phenomenon, solve a problem, create a product, or raise a new question in ways that would have been unlikely through single disciplinary means.

S.T.E.A.M. Learning

Credit: 1

Open to: 10, 11, 12

Prerequisite: Interview with instructional coaches

Students will demonstrate their capacity to develop collaborative and hands-on projects, requiring them to work with peers, instructional coaches, and experts in the community to address meaningful questions which develop deep subject area knowledge drawn from a combination of science, technology, engineering, arts, or mathematics curriculums. Students will identify and solve challenges, take action, and document their experience so that it can be shared with members of our school community.

Students will:

• • Ask Questions Define Problems

  • Develop and Use Models

  • Plan and Carry Out Investigations

  • Analyze and Interpret Data

  • Use Mathematical and Computational Thinking

  • Construct Explanations and Design Solutions

  • Engage in Argument from Evidence

  • Obtain, Evaluate, and Communicate Information