Composition of integrated units in cross-curricular learning based on commonalities between subjects

The purpose of this study is to clarify the viewpoint of the structure of the integrated units in cross-curricular learning based on the commonality among subjects through the intersection of a music class with a science class. First, "sound" was identified as a commonality between music and science from the viewpoint of the subject content of music, and sound in music and science were summarized respectively. Next, the target of practice was set to the third grade of elementary school, and a unit on making a one-string box musical instrument was selected for music and a unit on the properties of sound was selected for science, and integrated units was designed and practiced. Then, from the verbatim recordings based on the video recordings of the lessons, scenes in which the content of the music and science subjects were easy to read were extracted and analyzed in relation to the content of the subjects. As a result, the following three points were found as perspectives for the structure of the integrated units. 1) The foundation shall be the direct experience of freely sounding and experimenting with sound. 2) The teachers of both subjects shall be aware of and develop the qualitative and phenomenological awareness of sound in the direct experience. 3) Setting up opportunities for the children to be aware of the relationship between the content learned in both subjects.