A Language Arts-Engineering Mashup

Many cross-content lessons are easy to come by - a paper written for history includes quite a bit of language arts, math word problems include science topics, and health class covers body systems covered in science.  So when Anne Sullivan and Tricia Svendsen wanted to create a cross-content lesson including language arts and engineering, they were surprised by the lack of available lesson plans.  Using Goldilocks and the Three Bears and other works from literature, the women worked to incorporate them into lessons about temperature, texture,  and even chair stability for their 5th grade class.

Sullivan, Anne & Svendsen, Tricia. "A Language Arts-Engineering Mashup." Learning & Leading With Technology June/July 2011: 30-31. Print.