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I understand how math could be incorporated into a science lesson, but how could future teachers incorporate other subjects into a science lesson?  

Reading, writing, geaography, and history, Art, coding-there are so many different ways to integrate!

There are science tradebooks, non-fiction chapter books that are involved with science such as Endurance-the story of Earnest Shakelton and his ill-fated Antarctica trip although not a single member of his expediation died. You can talk about diet, staying warm, ocean currents, materials for warm clothing, insulation, materials for building boats that with stand crushing ice, sleds, finding one's way-navigation, etc. Here are a few references:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/quest-south-pole/

https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Shackleton-Endurance-Trans-Antarctic_expedition.php

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reliving-shackletons-epic-endurance-expedition-102707360/

http://main.wgbh.org/imax/shackleton/sirernest.html  [esson plans, etc. ]

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34856379

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing [The one I read]

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander

Here is an Amazon search of childrens' books about Earnest Shakelton

Using natural diseasterhuricanes or even human-caused like Bhopal, you can talk about economics, health, rebuilding, choosing where to live, house structures. 

My suggestion is to find out what your students are interested in, have them research the background-historical, economically, etc. and see what they find out. You tie in the science and help them make connections. 

NSTA just published their outstanding tradebooks [2019 list] and outstanding STEM books, [this year's list]look at those lists and see how they fit into your instruction and what connections are possible. Build on your students' strengths, relevancy, real-world experiences. 

I have attached a list of non-fiction science books that are more secondary level reading. NBC Learn has many short videos and lessons on a wide variety of topics-winter and summer olympics, lots of connections beyound science and mathematics, lots of engineering; the solar dying integrates chemistry, art, textiles, botany, etc. 

I realize if you are teaching primary grades my Endurance example might seem too much, but you can look at the childrens' book list and see if there are any at your grade level; also their is a movie, actual video footage from his expedition. You could have your students plan an expediation-what kinds and how much food do they need to take, what kind of clothing, etc. 

Let me know if I can be more specific!

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It is very easy to incorporate language arts into science. Instead of giving the students stories to read about random things give them articles stories over science topics. You can make it where they have to read and summarize the information in the text and there are a lot more options as well.