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Brownell, Cassie J. – Education Sciences, 2020
Drawing on data generated following the 2016 United States presidential election, in this article the author considers how a classroom makerspace made Black girls' literacies visible in new ways. During a six-week integrated humanities unit in a third-grade public school classroom in the Midwestern U.S., four Black girls used making to create a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Literacy, Grade 3

Saltman, Scott – Physics Teacher, 1994
Describes an assignment that provides an alternative to the end of the chapter test. Students instead are asked to write a chapter of the text clarifying their ideas and explaining the material in a manner that a student unfamiliar with the subject of the chapter could understand. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation, High Schools, Physics

Liss, Julie M.; Hanson, Stephanie D. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1993
Examines several variables that may interact to affect the success of writing in science courses and provides some student views on these assignments. (PR)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Science Education, Science Instruction

McLeod, Jack R. – Social Education, 1992
Presents sample writing assignments that enable students to practice social studies skills. Suggests that the use of creative writing assignments allows students to make a jump in time or place to the era and area being studied. Argues that using the imagination is a better approach to learning than memorizing facts. (DK)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies, Writing Across the Curriculum

O'Flaherty, Kathleen M. – Teaching Sociology, 1992
Describes a written assignment designed to help students develop a framework for understanding the meaning of the concept of social imagination. Defines social imagination as a pattern of questioning and understanding the world. Suggests that students must develop a mindset that allows them to understand the intersection between personal biography…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Life Events, Social History, Sociology
Gaylord, Susan Kapuscinski – Instructor (Primary), 1997
Four child-crafted book projects help promote students' holiday spirit. The projects, all based on a simple accordion fold, resemble cards but open to reveal more than just a greeting, allowing students to think and write about what the holiday means to them. Projects include a poetry book, a rhyming book, and a memory book. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Holidays, Language Arts
Viau, Elizabeth Anne – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1998
Teachers and students can use color to identify different types of writing. This article describes using color to highlight annotations, identity, topic sentences, thoughts and emotions, logical arguments, advertising and selling, showing and telling, and looking and seeing. Includes sample assignments for identifying emotional content, topic…
Descriptors: Color, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes

Ewoldt, Carolyn; Miller, Etta – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Techniques are discussed for encouraging students to write thoughtful papers about field trips. Greater student involvement can be achieved by cultivating a sense of ownership of the writing. Topics for before, during, and after the trip are suggested in such functional writing areas as instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)

Reeves, Carol – College Teaching, 1996
Encouraging students' use of satire, irony, and parody in college writing assignments is recommended to help students voice their concerns, think critically, and discover how a form of discourse contributes to both form and substance of the writing. Samples of student work illustrating the effectiveness of this approach are offered. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Humor

Dimmitt, Jean Pollard; Van Cleaf, David W. – Social Education, 1992
Discusses the use of writing assignments for teaching social studies. Suggests that alternatives to the standard research paper may be more advantageous to students by providing increased opportunity for creativity. Describes oral history projects, diaries, letters, advertisements, monologues, brief investigations, and position papers as suitable…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Papers (Students)

Carlson, Janet F. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a series of writing assignments in which entry level graduate students in a personality theory class wrote four short papers interpreting the personality of a character from a children's story or comic strip. Explains that each paper utilized a different theoretical orientation: psychoanalytic, dispositional, phenomenological, and…
Descriptors: Characterization, Comics (Publications), Fairy Tales, Graduate Students

Golden, Tim; And Others – Science Teacher, 1994
Presents procedures for student-guided critical analyses of current topics in biology. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Biology, Critical Reading, Criticism, Current Events

Curcio, Frances R.; Zarnowski, Myra – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1996
Uses the children's book, "The Rajah's Rice: A Mathematical Folktale from India," as the basis for grade-four activities involving doubling and powers of two. (MKR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Drama, Elementary Education

Everett, Elizabeth – Science Teacher, 1994
Offers suggestions on how to incorporate valid and meaningful writing assignments for the science classroom. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Biology, Evaluation, Learning Activities, Portfolios (Background Materials)

Roberts, Keith A. – Teaching Sociology, 1993
Asserts that the literature on the use of writing in sociology ignores a systematic view of how writing relates to the discipline of sociology. Examines C. Wright Mills' concept of "sociological imagination." Provides suggestions for teachers who require student writing and seek to help student become better writers. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Social Scientists, Sociology