Chapter 9 is all about connecting science with other subjects. The national standards in every discipline support connections between subjects in the school curriculum. There are important connections to be made between science, math, language arts, social studies, as well as other subjects.
Math and science can center on four main themes: quantifying the world, organizing and interpreting data, using patterns and relationships, and operating on numbers. Children use all four of these connections all the time. Quantifying the world is estimation and measuring real world variables. Organizing data is making graphs, tables or diagrams from information collected or given about something. Interpreting data is reading what the graphs, tables, or diagrams are. Using patterns and relationships have children predicting and testing their hypotheses and coming up with a conclusion. According to the book, science and reading/writing is critical for elementary/middle school students.
Teachers can help students succeed in reading through helping them acquire necessary prior knowledge, and helping them follow up after their science readings. They always can improve their writing skills as they communicate their inquiries to others.
Science and social studies seem pretty easy to integrate because everything in society is based off of some part of history. For instance the book talked about weather and the environment. One needs to know the history on it before they have investigate it.
This chapter helped me greatly on trying to integrate other subjects into science. I always do it the other way around. I always integrate science into language arts instead of integrating language arts into science. It takes practice but i feel that this chapter has helped immensely.
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