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Interdisciplinary
* Communicating Through the Internet
Created by Marilyn Healy at Bardwell Elementary School , Aurora, Illinois, through participation in the Fermilab LINC class. This is an online project that introduces primary students to the concept of the internet, telecommunications, and e-mail. For teachers the project has the purpose of integrating telecommunication into their existing curriculum and class instruction. It provides a link between the real world and what students learn in the classroom.

* Communities
In Ms. Lococo's second grade at Washington Irving School in Oak Park, Illinois students are studying communities. Several activities have been used to integrate this theme into mathmatics, geography, language arts and social skills development.

* The Iditarod Dog Sled Race ILW Original
Developed by Judy Bernard, Edgewood School, Woodridge, IL for grades 4-5, who used Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives to plan the unit.


* Prairie
The unit, "A Celebration of Prairie Life", is an eight-week multidisciplinary study for fourth grade in Oak Park district 97, Illinois that integrates several subjects, including the fine arts: social studies, language arts, science, mathematics, music, visual arts, dance, and drama. The choice of the prairie as a topic for integrated study provided for natural connections between the subject areas.

* Reptiles
Integrating reptiles into art, music and physical education in Oak Park District 97, Illinois.

* Solar BikeRayce 96
The students at Marshall High School (small rural school in eastern Illinois) will design, draft and engineer two solar bicycles to be entered into the Solar BikeRayce USA 96.


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