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Berman, Sally – 1999
This handbook provides practical plans for theme-based activities that promote learning through doing. Each activity incorporates a wide range of tasks and skills across multiple content areas that can be modified for students of different abilities and grade levels. The book also illustrates how to make activities more meaningful by including…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Neuropsychology
Lazear, David – 1999
This book offers a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning strategies to further the theory of multiple intelligences. The creative strategies that address each of the intelligences identified by Howard Gardner are illustrated with charts and diagrams and include many activities that apply to the teaching of all subjects. The chapters,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Beachner, Lynne; Pickett, Anola – 2001
This book offers teachers a toolbox for discovering the innate strengths and talents and the unique learning styles of each student. Drawing from Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences, the book offers more than a dozen activities specifically tailored to each of the eight multiple intelligences: verbal/linguistic, mathematical/logical,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Multiple Intelligences
Lazear, David – 2003
This book goes through the eight intelligences (verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual, bodily/kinesthetic, musical/rhythmic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist), showing teachers new ways to create their own lessons using these intelligences. It also describes how to use technology to enhance each of the intelligences. The book…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans, Multiple Intelligences
Glandon, Shan – 2000
Teachers can take advantage of the appeal and power of Caldecott Award literature to extend and promote learning across the curriculum. This book demonstrates how to use award-winning books as springboards to language arts learning in the library and classroom, and the expansion of student awareness and appreciation of illustration techniques. For…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Lazear, David – 1998
This book offers 44 activities for developing capacities of seven types of intelligence identified by Howard Gardner in his theory of multiple intelligences. The activities, grouped by the type of intelligence the activity primarily fosters, are intended for students to do on their own. The intelligences and sample activities are as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Learning Activities
Livo, Norma J. – 2000
Young learners are invited to learn about the natural world through engaging activities that encourage the observation, exploration, and appreciation of nature. Weaving together a stimulating tapestry of folktales, personal narratives, and hands-on activities, this book teaches children about the earth and all of its creatures--birds, plants,…
Descriptors: Animals, Astronomy, Botany, Elementary Secondary Education
Fennessey, Sharon M. – 2000
This book brings new life to the study of social studies by integrating the tools of creative drama and theater tools like pantomime, movement, improvisation, scripted drama, oral interpretation, debate, public speaking, readers theater, storytelling, and the many other ways the body or voice can be used to creatively communicate ideas to others.…
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Arts
Martin, Hope – 1996
This book contains activities and projects designed to be congruent with three underlying philosophies: the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Curriculum and Evaluation Standards; Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences; and manipulatives, activities, and projects. The introduction contains information about educational reforms; multiple…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Geometry, Intelligence
Maylone, Nelson John – 1999
This book is designed to provide middle-grade mathematics teachers with ideas for enlivening instruction to help students acquire a sense about numbers. Guided classroom discussions for writing opportunities centered on the theme of problem solving are provided. Following an introduction, chapters include the following: Counterintuitive Problems;…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Nelson, Kristen – 2001
This book integrates the use of three tools (the Internet, the theory of multiple intelligences, and brain research) to help teachers design projects and activities that help students gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum, discussing how these educational tools work together to help teachers make better use of their classroom time as they…
Descriptors: Brain, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet
Glandon, Shan – 2000
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the U.S. artist of the most distinguished picture book for children. This activity book is based on the idea that connections with art teachers are a natural result of a focus on Caldecott Award literature,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education
Banks, Janet Caudill – 1997
This book is a guide to help teachers develop performance-based curriculum projects that include authentic assessments. Section 1, Project-Based (or Performance-Based) Learning and Performance Assessment, describes and gives a rationale for this type of learning and assessment and project-based classrooms. It also notes the role of teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Inquiry, Multiple Intelligences
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Kallick, Bena, Ed. – 2000
This is the fourth volume in a series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called habits of mind. It presents a collection of papers that explain how communities, departments, teams, school districts, and school faculties can integrate the habits of mind into the school culture and sustain them. After "Series Foreword: Thinking on the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Lifelong Learning
Moursund, David – 1996
This book summarizes and synthesizes current thinking on problem solving and explores ways in which computers can be used in problem solving to help users gain expertise in their domains of interest. Topics in the nine chapters include an introduction to problem solving including a definition of problems; an overview followed by detailed…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design, Information Sources, Information Technology
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