All interdisciplinary modules are models where large ideas may spread across different curriculum areas. Students use lots of equipment, including digital cameras, scanners, camcorders, and of course, computers and software. Over the last few years, students have started to use the World Wide Web to preview and evaluate five different Web sites for their projects. They may view three-dimensional models of great buildings such as the Parthenon and the Acropolis at the Web site . Students also apply scientific learning when comparing these ancient buildings to buildings of modern architecture.
Technology is an enhancement and another vehicle to artistic expression.
Through this process, we have made many discoveries. The American Girls Collection by the Learning Company contains interactive scenarios promoting an American play with scenery, characters, costumes, staging and performance-based creativity. We learned you do not have to be an expert in all art forms, but give students exposure, and they will run with it. The key to constructivist thinking and teaching is to be able to get yourself out of the way so the concept may grow and develop. Let the students do the rest.