Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary approaches to the teaching of Social Studies

With the completion of this webquest students will have achieved a solid understanding of the connections and relevance between the social sciences, and more importantly how integrating the curriculum improves students higher-level thinking skills; reduces curricular fragmentation resulting in a unified sense of process and content;provides stronger real-world applications yielding increased opportunities for the transfer of learning; enables greater mastery of content; heightens sense of initiative and autonomy; improves students ability to adopt multiple points of view; and enhances motivation to learn.