What Kinds of School Content and School Contexts Link?

Abstract

In this chapter the final teacher, Mrs. Wilson , is introduced. Mrs. Wilson ’s students participated in studies for two years. These students participated in expository writing projects on the animals of the rainforest and sea mammals. This classroom provided the prompt to begin looking at links that students made with experiences that took place in school. These school-developed links allowed students to link across school years, across different content areas, and across activities that explored the content in different ways. The links that were prominent from the students, rather than those that the teachers made, were those that the students made with the activities in which they engaged in the class, rather than the teacher merely telling the students about the content.