It is published twice yearly by an interdisciplinary team of NC State graduate students representing a broad range of fields, from education to forestry. Meridian features research findings, practitioner articles, commentary, and book excerpts by educational researchers, technology designers, middle school teachers, and authors who wish to share and expand teaching and learning experiences with computer technologies in middle school classrooms and beyond. Using the same shapes, the results depend on how you arrange the pieces. Problems in life occur randomly and are never identical. Our solutions emanate from the way we blend prior knowledge with recently gained data.
Instructors place students in roles of active investigation.
In this web instruction, you will find an overview of the problem-based learning model, actual lesson plans in various subject areas and grade levels and links to additional resources. We have added a segment on adolescent development to underscore the behavioral characteristics that make a compelling argument for the use of the curriculum integration approach in middle school. You will also find a story about a young teacher and her team and the curriculum integration project their team implemented. There is a link in that component that will take you to a site that describes the actual project that was implemented. We felt that it was important to provide practice for the theory.