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Goal. Multidisciplinary approach is considered to be the objective of education. Studies however show, that designing lessons that integrates subjects is perceived to be labor-intensive, and planning requires a lot from the teacher. Some studies show, that teachers often rely on materials that are easily available, such as teacher's manuals. Hence, the content that guides how to integrate subjects, should be studied. My research task is to analyze the integration tips in the 5th grade teacher's manuals. I focus particularly on the integration of subjects. Methods. I studied 5 teacher's manuals, I use at work, which contained tips on how to integrate subjects. They represented the following subjects: environmental and natural sciences (2 manuals: biology and geography, physics and chemistry), religion, history and social studies. The material was quantified, analyzed by content analysis and categorized by integration style. Results and conclusions. The manuals contained a total of 167 integration tips. Up to 51% of all content integrated to visual arts, 23% to mother tongue and 16% to music. These contents accounted for 90% of all integrating tips in the teacher's manuals. The proportion of other subjects was marginal. 42% of the content was subservient as integration style. 52% was co-equal and only 6% represented the affective integration style. As a conclusion, it can be stated that the tips guided to integrate the subjects co-equally or subserviently almost as often. Visual arts was the discipline most used and its methodological goals were often taken into account in the contents. On the other hand, visual arts was also used as a form of presentation of information. making its role subservient. For the same reason 2/3 of the tips integrating to mother tongue represented the subservient integration style.