The acknowledgment of all these topics is well-done, but the baseline is again to maintain cross-sectoral "coherence," rather than considering further, specific steps for connecting topics alongside operational connections.
Reinhard Laubenbacher's Discrete Mathematics Group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has run two biomathematics workshops for in-service high school teachers connecting topics in modern discrete algebra to the Virginia public schools' required Standards of Learning (Martins et al., 2008).
"We don't provide you one single answer, but provide you both strongly connected topics as well as topics with more serendipitous connection and allow you to choose.
Kaling talks like this: rapid-fire bursts of conversation that leap between loosely connected topics.
Evolution and the origin of life are separate, if connected, topics, but they are frequently conflated especially by creationists.
Another strategy is to connect topics in biological evolution to students' everyday experiences, such as discussing genetically modified food and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (see Hillis 2007 for example).
Additionally, we use Bézier curves instead of straight lines to connect topics with experiments and gene sets.
And there is much written about a connected topic: the use of communication to promote development itself - such as HIV prevention leaflets, theatre for youth empowerment, or websites produced by NGOs to tell the world about their projects and beneficiaries.
Drawing policy-makers' attention to FR matters could be eased by connecting to topics that recently hit the media, referring to the BSE crisis as an example.
This paper presents AugmentedWorld, an open and adaptive location-based platform, designed to facilitate the creation of multimedia-rich questions while connecting scientific topics to relevant locations, real-world applications, and learners' daily life.
Beginning students of these subjects, however, have a very difficult time connecting the topics that they learn in a typical introductory physics course sequence to their chosen college major and career path a source of great frustration to their instructors!
