Any knowledge, once created, becomes a part of a larger system that enhances learning and is capable of integrating and accommodating new information with greater efficiency and reliability. Each person creates knowledge in similar, yet uniquely distinct ways. Connecting information provided or described by others in novel and personal ways is a key to learning and developing knowledge. The idea of content links or connections is not exactly new, but offers some unique opportunities to chart your own course, learn, and add to your knowledge system. Enter the idea of Constructivism .
Constructivism is a philosophy as well as a psychology of education.
Constructivism is about how knowledge is created. I recommend that you go to a paper developed by Erik Strommen and Bruce Lincoln and published by Columbia University to learn more about this important and useful idea. It will give you some perspective that will help you construct you own knowledge about strategic teaching and learning. Click here for the paper. Thematic curriculum is about relating content for specific intended learning purposes.