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Cummings, Alysa – Learning, 1991
Describes discovery learning, a teaching method that encourages students to use inductive reasoning. Students explore and experiment using the skill or idea being taught; they determine rules, make generalizations, and discover concepts. The teacher acts as coach, advisor, and reinforcer. A student page offers a discovery learning game on capital…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Discovery Learning, Educational Games, Elementary Education
Learning, 1991
The ninth installment of the Science in a Box series (self-contained, hands-on activities for students grades three and up) presents activities for learning to use the sense of touch to determine how different objects conduct heat. All projects in the series are inexpensive and easy to assemble. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning, Heat
Learning, 1991
Presents classroom learning activities to help elementary teachers and students learn about and experiment with the sense of taste. One involves tasting an apple while smelling an onion; another involves locating areas of the tongue that respond to salt, sweet, bitter, and sour. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning
Learning, 1992
Presents ideas to help elementary school educators teach their students about magnetic force fields by observing how iron filings line up around magnets. The article lists materials needed and offers a student page with suggested student activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning
Blizard, Elizabeth B. – Learning, 1992
Presents low-cost learning activities to help teach elementary students about the earth's magnetic field. One project has students make a model of the earth's magnetic field. Another has them experiment with magnetism. (SM)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Earth Science, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Bernagozzi, Tom; And Others – Learning, 1992
This activity book includes across-the-curriculum activities with Olympic themes; a "cooperation relay" (four competitive team activities based on a cooperative learning model); highlights of African Americans' Olympic achievements; a poster on teamwork and activities based on the theme of keeping the Olympic torch alive; and a…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Blacks, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
Andrews, Doreen; And Others – Learning, 1992
Presents a collection of fall and Halloween activities for elementary students, including pumpkin poetry, batty bulletin boards (graphing), vegetable variety art, old time radio mysteries, paper doll Halloween safety, career dress-up day, imaginative Halloween writing, and matching animals with foods they eat. A student page offers a Dracula…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Bulletin Boards, Career Awareness, Class Activities
Cassidy, Jack – Learning, 1991
Presents suggestions for teaching math word problems to elementary students. The strategies take into consideration differences between reading in math and reading in other areas. A problem-prediction game and four self-checking activities are included along with a magic password challenge. (SM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Hansen, Karen; And Others – Learning, 1991
Six articles help elementary teachers cultivate students' critical thinking skills across the curriculum with activities like examining past predictions and future forecasting, exploring science via ice and snow, strengthening critical reading through visual clues, discussing prediction using mathematical patterns, and studying vision with a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
Learning, 1991
This activity book for teachers and students presents ideas for lessons on Christopher Columbus. Three sections offer teaching ideas and student activities focusing on Columbus's inspiration and preparation for departure, the science of navigation and the voyage, and the pros and cons of changes brought about by Columbus's voyage. (SM)
Descriptors: Cartography, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning
Learning, 1991
An almanac of activities helps elementary students learn about rights in their lives. The activity book focuses on the Bill of Rights and on student rights in the home, school, and community. It includes posters, student activities, resource lists, and teaching aids. (SM)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Class Activities, Elementary Education
Whitman, Betsy Blizard – Learning, 1992
The article presents inexpensive activities to teach elementary school students about electromagnets. Students learn to make an electromagnet with a battery, nail, and wire, then different activities help them explore the difference between permanent magnets and electromagnets. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Experiential Learning
Learning, 1994
Two posters examine the 1969 Apollo moon mission. The first tracks the stages and path of the mission, suggesting that students create their own diagrams or models. The second presents a puzzle that helps student understand how many items developed for the mission are useful to today's everyday life. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Lunar Research, Moons
Learning, 1992
Presents a collection of activities to help elementary students study ocean ecology. The activities have students investigate ocean inhabitants, analyze animal adaptations, examine how temperature and saltiness affect ocean creatures, and learn about safeguarding the sea. Student pages offer reproducible learning sheets. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Ecology, Elementary Education
Cassidy, Jack; Hossler, Ann – Learning, 1992
Three graphic organizers are presented to teach students the concept of main idea. One describes how to examine details in an article to determine the main idea. Another explains how specific details support main ideas. The third describes deduction, stressing the importance of expository detail to support the main idea. (SM)
Descriptors: Deduction, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphic Organizers, Learning Activities
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