At the completion of a unit on accuracy, Mr. Stockard has decided
that his fifth graders will go on a field trip to a bowling alley. He
has designed a note to send home to parents, informed the classroom
teachers and administration in writing and talked to the owner of a
local bowling alley. Mr. Stockard has also contacted the bus system
by phone to reserve a bus and arranged for a snack with the school lunch
personnel. To deepen his students' learning experiences, Mr. Stockard
has provided classroom teachers with ideas for integrating bowling scoring
procedures into their math units, designed the criteria for a writing
assignment about concentration, printed from the Internet a history
of bowling, and set up an art project with the art teacher centered
around student designed bowling T-shirts. The project has become a truly
integrated experience with teachers in the different subject areas sharing
their grading strategies and awarding shared grades in each of their
classes.