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Advantages:
visible and highly motivational
umbrella for students- easy to see the
connections
straightforward curriculum planning modelgood for master teachers and beginning
teachers
keeps an overall focus and pattern
multidisciplinary units make it easy to
address various content standards
facilitates teamwork
easy to brainstorm activities, projects, and
products that mirror the selected themes
creative process that energizes teachers and
students
Disadvantages:
takes a lot of time to connect themes,
subjects and activities
choosing a theme
tendency to focus on activities rather
than concept development
hard to keep the content relevant and
rigorous
time consuming if theme cannot be
recycled year to year
tendency to grab at shallow themes that
are superficially useful in curriculum
planning
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