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cross-curricular

adjective

  1. education denoting or relating to an approach to a topic that includes contributions from several different disciplines and viewpoints
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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For the younger children, these 25-minute sessions start with identifying things using English words, but it evolves to reading comprehension and cross-curricular lessons in mathematics and social studies, Tribble said.

Cunningham Elementary in southwest Austin already has its own farm, and now it’s getting a teaching kitchen as part of a cross-curricular culinary education initiative.

High schoolers integrate with tykes in cross-curricular programs, so the second-graders would go giddy whenever Tagovailoa would appear, Welch said.

“They need to know where our food comes from so they can eat and live healthier lives. It is cross-curricular, from social science to math to reading and writing. It is hands-on learning. The kids are able to see veins of the leafs under microscopes. I see kids measuring our flowerbeds and writing down their observations. It becomes a living textbook instead of memorization.”

Those lessons will be cross-curricular, tying gardening to other subjects like science, math and English.

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