Some ideas for interdisciplinary activities

Interdisciplinary activities are anything you do in your class that requires students to use ideas, skills and knowledge from multiple subject areas to complete the task. For instance, doing artwork in science class to illustrate a concept. I was reading an article in Science Teacher magazine yesterday and came up with some ideas to do in my Physics classes.

1. Have students write a short, fiction story that utilizes or explains physics concepts as part of the story. I was also thinking that they could take a science fiction movie or story and address the physics of the movie (real vs. fiction.).

2. Write a song, poem, or rap about a physics concept as a great study aid.

3. Write/create/blog/wiki/poster/presentation applying physics to music, art, etc. One example would be the physics of light and color related to art, or the physics of sound related to their favorite instrument.

4. Create/write/blog/wiki/presentation about how a scientific discovery or new technology has changed the world and history.

I also realized that these types of projects can integrate 21st century skills and technology skills and will definitely be more interesting than a lecture. Students will learn alot and have fun.

Share your ideas for interdisciplinary activities with us!

Notely.net

I just found out about a great resource for students, Notely.net. Notely has all the tools a student could need, schedule, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more.

Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you crazy busy students out there to organise your hectic lives. Whether you're in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized and achieve better grades.

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Web 2.0 Flash cards

I just read an article on TechLearning.com by Jenn Farr on creating Web 2.0 flashcards (http://www.techlearning.com/article/16896) and thought I'd post the three online flash card sites that I checked out that I found easy to use. 

All of them also have a huge number of already created flash cards for students to use.

http://www.studystack.com/

http://flashcarddb.com/

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

Try them out for yourselves and let students know about them. Besides looking up already created flash card sets, students can create their own for studying.