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The Road to Delhi A year 8 Integrated Curriculum  David King, Andy Costin, Cameron Hromin, Shannyn Daniel

This WikiSpace has been created for EDUC3608, an education topic at Flinders University, South Australia. For this assignment, we have been assigned to a group and asked to create an integrated unit plan for students.

The integrated model that we have chosen is the multidisciplinary approach. Like most integration models, they are usually linked by themes, concepts or topics. The multidisciplinary or ‘multisubject’ approach that we have chosen to use for this assignment is where 'two or more subjects cover a organised theme, concept or issue’ (Beane,n/d). As a group we have come together to decide a theme; The Commonwealth Games. We then organised how each of our subjects relate to the topic. When selecting the multisubject approach we needed to select the duration the model will last and for the sake of this assignment we decided that a 6 week period would be suffice. However, generally a term or a semester is more suited in a school environment because teachers will continue, like other curriculums, to have their own subject ‘slot’ on the timetable (Pendergast & Bahr, 2005). In a school setting this enables both teachers to form their own assessment and tests relating to the topic over the duration they have negotiated, rather than having to share and integrate assessments. Using separate assessments for the two subjects, it will enable students to grasp the topic and better understand it.

For this assignment we have decided to create the unit plan around year 8 students. We have integrated all of our subjects, Physical Education, Health, History, English and Maths to have a core theme of the 2010 Commonwealth Games which were held in Delhi. We titled this assignment or this 'topic' as "The Road to Delhi".