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> The latest government edict is that the curriculum should be taught in a > more holistic way in the form of themes which include cross-curricular > topics (ie. a scheme of work which covers colouring in shapes counts for > both maths and art tickboxes). With this in mind, a lot of schools are now > reviewing their current approach and looking at developing a whole new > one. There are commercial companies supplying this market with > shrink-wrapped material (for about £8-9000, as I understand) but my school > at least is looking at building their own from scratch. > I think I can see some usefulness in this, for example if you were studying metabolism, then you could use different subjects to collect, record and presetn data Science, or PHSE use to predict what will happen to heart rate during exercise PE collect the data Maths / IT, look at data, and create graphs etc English, write the data up, IT sort / manipulate data on computer and create charts etc. Science or PHSE discuss conclusions and present data to the class, This is where your wiki and learning platforms come in, you split the class into groups, of equal boys / girls, in each group, they go away with this tasks, and come back with the results. If children enjoy science, but not PE as much, then the need to do the PE lesson to get the results, it becomes part of the lesson, and rather than just being PE, its data collection so has an additional purpose to it. Its also where schools can share the data, and perhaps as a follow up, get the kids in different schools to compare the data, for example a school in a rural area, to say central London or Manchester, collaboration, team work skills are also developed at the same time. notice I am using science and PHSE lessons to set the tasks and get feedback to the class, of course this would work if the lessons were in the right order, I am not a teacher, this is how I interpret this approach. Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html