Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: The Common Core State Standards Edition

What students must know, do, and be have always been the focus of curriculum, but creating integrated curriculum that engages learners in ways that can be measured withinaaccountability-driven environments has proven increasingly challenging in recent years. In this completely revised and updated edition of SusanaDrake's classic text on integrated curriculum, the author provides a new approach toastandards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Within a framework that allows for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to curriculum integration, the author focuses on planning assessment tasks, designing instructional strategies, developing daily activities, and connecting big questions to big understandings. a