Lesson Specification Report (LSR)

 Lesson Specification Report (LSR)

Correlation of the subjects in school

Lesson Name: Math behind Alice in Wonderland

Within the framework of the project Across Subjects English and Math teachers designed an integrated lesson, guided by the main objective to promote correlation of school subjects and highlight the ways of bridging the school disciplines, taking Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll as an example.

Correlation of school disciplines is considered highly essential nowadays. To meet the demands of the time educators devise some up-to- date approaches that promote effective teaching. Integrated lessons like that may fully demonstrate correlation of school disciplines and become a useful tool in bridging subjects.

Education is a co-ordinated process and the major aim of education is the unification of knowledge existing in different branches of knowledge. All subjects of school curriculum contribute towards the realization of the aims of education. Since they have the same purpose, study of one subject favours the study of the others. In horizontal correlation an attempt is made to co-ordinate the teaching of English and Math.

To make such correlation meaningful and justified, the lesson designed should meet the following requirements.

• To select an appropriate learning material

• To ensure the common ground between the disciplines of the research.

• To instil and activate specific vocabulary of the partner subject (e.g. Math terms in English)

• To organize the process of bilingual comprehension in an accessible way

Alice in Wonderland, written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, is said to be full of Algebra and Geometry.

The students prepared the research project using Case Study Method. They tried to decode Math hidden behind Alice in Wonderland.