What is an integrated curriculum and what are domains?
At Quest students learn standards-based content within classes that we call domains. These domains organize disciplinary knowledge in 21st certain ways– around big ideas that require expertise in two or more traditional subjects, like math and science, or ELA and social studies. One of our domains – The Way Things Work – is an integrated math and science class organized around ideas form design and engineering: taking systems apart and putting them back together again. Another domain – Codeworlds– is an integrated ELA, math, and computer programming class organized around the big idea of symbolic systems, language, syntax, and grammar. A third domain – Being, Space and Place – an integrated ELA and social studies class – is organized around the big idea of the individual and their relationship to community and networks of knowledge, across time and space. Wellness is the last of our integrated domains, a class that combines the study of health, socio-emotional issues, nutrition, moveme
