Integrate into all ready great units- put new ideas in it.
Address the diverse learning styles.
Planned around an author, book, historical events, elections, olympics
Connections can be made to different subjects...bridge technology into these different subjects.
Maybe our assessment needs to look like the CRT test when we assess.
Boring subjects can be made alive with a theme.

Ten reasons to use Thematic Units
1.  Increase technology
2.  Compacts the curriculum
3.  Mixing different subjects together to enhance learning
4.  Increased student interest in learning and time engaged
5.  Expands your assessment strategies- different ways
6.  Collaborative and cooperative learning- working together- student to student/teacher to teacher
7.  The learner to become a master of what we are teaching them
8. Integrating word processing skills into creative activities- like Civil War- act they are a soldier and write in their journal each day.
9. Safely control the web access for students
10. Models for students the resources used in research



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