Collaboration revealed new connections
Working across subjects gave teachers new ideas and made them more aware of opportunities to connect science and history in their teaching.
Different disciplines
Shared questions
Exploring how teachers, researchers and museum educators can connect science, history and local places through curriculum development.
What the study found
Three insights from the team’s qualitative study of teacher collaboration
Teachers found a way to connect subjects
Working within curriculum structures and practical constraints, teachers brought science and history together across a shared unit. The individual lessons remained largely focused on one subject.
Disaster education calls for care
The museum visit and project discussions prompted teachers to reconsider Titanic as a human tragedy, and the need to teach it with respect and sensitivity.
Based on Park, Shaby & Newman, Science & Education (2025). The study involved seven teachers and two museum educators.
Publications & perspectives
“We often forget it was a disaster”: Cross-curricular teacher collaboration to develop a curriculum unit on the Titanic disaster
Wonyong Park, Neta Shaby & Rachele Newman
Creating opportunities for learning across subjects through the Titanic disaster
Rachele Newman & Wonyong Park
Remembering Titanic: Lessons from a cross-curricular professional development project with science and history teachers
Wonyong Park · PDF
Reflections from
the project
The ASE 2024 presentation reports that participants noticed more connections across subjects and reflected on the sensitivity needed when teaching a disaster.
It also explores local history as a setting for science learning and collaborative curriculum development as a form of professional learning.
Integrating Science and History Learning
The Remembering Titanic Project
Wonyong Park, Neta Shaby & Rachele Newman
ASE Annual Conference · 6 January 2024
University of Northampton
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