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Cross-curricular

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

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In education & teaching, cross-curricular means: Connecting two or more school subjects, so that students use knowledge and skills from different areas in the same topic or project.

In Turkish: disiplinlerarası, dersler arası

How it is used

Teachers plan cross-curricular projects, links, themes or approaches. For example, a unit on rivers can combine geography, science and creative writing. Interdisciplinary is a similar, more academic word.

Example sentences

  1. The science and art teachers ran a cross-curricular project on plant life.

  2. Look for cross-curricular links when you plan: graphs in science are also maths.

Common collocations

  • cross-curricular project
  • cross-curricular links
  • cross-curricular approach
  • cross-curricular theme
  • curriculumThe whole set of subjects, content and skills that students are expected to learn at a school or level, including how the learning is organized and assessed.
  • project-based learningAn approach in which students learn by working over an extended period on a real-world project or question and then present a final product to an audience.
  • inquiry-based learningAn approach in which students learn by asking questions, investigating, gathering evidence and drawing their own conclusions, with the teacher guiding the process.
  • scheme of workA plan that maps out the sequence of lessons, topics, activities and assessments for a subject over a unit, term or year.

More terms: Curriculum and Programs

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