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Brand, Judith, Ed. – Exploratorium Magazine, 1999
Exploratorium Magazine communicates ideas that exhibits cannot easily demonstrate, extending the museum beyond its physical walls. This issue takes an in-depth look at the science and history of paper. Topics include: (1) Fascinating Facts about Paper; (2) A Closer Look at the Paper in This Magazine; (3) Handmade Paper; (4) Paper Airplanes; (5)…
Descriptors: Art Materials, Elementary Secondary Education, Exhibits, Learning Activities
Learning, 1983
Activities for teaching about the solar system, the earth's rotation, plants, pendulums, and animal adaptation are described. Included are suggestions for building scale models to illustrate the solar system's proportions and the earth's rotation speed, and for using playground swings to demonstrate pendulum motion. (PP)
Descriptors: Animals, Astronomy, Demonstrations (Educational), Elementary Education
Fleer, Marilyn; Cahill, Alita – AECA Research in Practice Series, 2001
Noting that children's questions are usually complex and thereby provide a natural learning context for inquiry-based early childhood education, this booklet focuses on using children's scientific questions as a foundation for planning and creating a stimulating learning environment. Following an introduction, the booklet provides suggestions for…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Curiosity, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Sealey, Jean – 1985
Research suggests that students at all grade levels perform better in school when parents support teachers and become involved in the school's functioning. Surveys indicate that many parents want to help their children but do not know how. Offered are activities that can be shared with parents of elementary children. Suggestions for an activity…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Home Study, Instructional Improvement
Sheffer, Susannah, Ed. – Growing without Schooling, 1999
This document, comprised of six bimonthly issues of a newsletter, focuses on home schooling and providing parents in the United States and other nations with ideas, activities, research summaries, and resources to teach their children at home. Each issue contains short news items and reports on home schooling, letters from parents, information on…
Descriptors: Adoption, Athletics, Computer Uses in Education, Creativity