What does WOWW mean by “Integration”?

• Classroom teachers consider curriculum objectives
  Example: 4th grade science curriculum: Planets in Space
• Organizations provide education programs in Educators’ Resource Guide
  Example: Amarillo Symphony’s Concerts for Young People with Space theme
• WOWW available to help teacher expand curriculum with organizations’ programs
  Example: WOWW rep meets with classroom teacher to discuss programs that would enrich students learning experience about Space
• WOWW available to help organization develop programs based on needs of teacher that include TEKS
  Example: Amarillo Symphony offers a program for 4th graders based upon the science curriculum with TEKS objectives included
• Curriculum is blended with content of education program(s) to enrich student learning
  Experience 1: LSB artist-as-resident comes to a school to demonstrate movement similar to constellation recognition and planet rotation in space
  Experience 2: Students attend Amarillo Symphony’s “A Flight to Outer Space” at the Globe-News Center.
  Experience 3: Field trip to the Discovery Center Space Theatre to see actual shuttle flights, Hubble telescopic pictures, distant galaxies and black holes.
• Students transfer learning experience(s) to maximize impact in math, science, social studies and language arts
  Math concepts of distance and measurement are more clearly understood after experiencing the musical concert, and the hands-on learning of the ballet artist, and the trip to the Discovery Center. Inventors of the telescope, the compass, and navigation are brought to life in social studies with their place in history while students write about how those inventions have brought new light to the twenty first century through language arts. All the experiences have brought a learning concept about Space in a more profound and unforgettable way through various methods and strategies making learning connections for life.