PBS Teachers™
Thematic Teaching
archive of features
The interdisciplinary topics previously highlighted in "Concepts Across the Curriculum" are archived here for easy reference.
Please note that although some of the topics are archived in discipline-specific categories, each monthly feature includes activity ideas that incorporate knowledge and skills from many subject areas.
- The Arts
- Cultures & History
- Diversity & Achievement
- Family & Community
- Professional Development/Pedagogy
- Science & Health
the arts
- Arts Everywhere
- The Civil Rights Movement in American Literature
- Great American Authors
- Indigenous Cultures
- Innovation & Invention
- Music in Every Classroom
- Poetry
- Politics & Art
- Shakespeare & the Renaissance
- Unsung Heroes in African American History
cultures & history
- American Identity
- Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders
- China
- Citizenship
- The Civil Rights Movement in American Literature
- Conflict Resolution
- Constitutional Controversies
- Covering the News Media
- Crime & Justice
- Democracy Around the World
- Development & the Environment
- Everyone's Business
- Global Population
- Immigration
- In the News
- Indigenous Cultures
- Justice
- Money in America
- Patriotism
- Politics & Art
- The Presidency
- Primary Sources & Contemporary U.S. History
- Religious Diversity
- Shakespeare & the Renaissance
- Sports in History
- Studying Genocide
- Technology & Ethics
- Unsung Heroes in African American History
- Women's Rights: Then & Now
- World Religions
diversity & achievement
- American Identity
- Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders
- Citizenship
- The Civil Rights Movement in American Literature
- Constitutional Controversies
- Global Population
- Immigration
- Indigenous Cultures
- Innovation & Invention
- Politics & Art
- Religious Diversity
- Sports in History
- Unsung Heroes in African American History
- Women's Rights: Then & Now
- World Religions
family & community
- American Identity
- Citizenship
- Community Health
- Conflict Resolution
- Development & the Environment
- Immigration
- Justice
- Money in America
- Patriotism
- Religious Diversity
- Technology & Ethics
- Volunteerism
professional development/pedagogy
science & health
- Breakthroughs in Medical Research
- Community Health
- Development & the Environment
- Earth Day at 35
- Forensic Science
- Global Population
- Healthy Choices
- How's the Weather?
- In the News
- Innovation & Invention
- Medicine & Health Care
- Mysteries of the Universe
- Oceans
- Sports in History
- Summer Sports
- Technology & Ethics