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Peer reviewedHaensly, Patricia – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1998
Addresses the role of children's museums, recounting both positive experiences of meaningful interactions and negative encounters in which such interactions were discouraged or were too cursory. Suggestions for scaffolding children's discovery and problem-solving learning with children's museum activities are offered. (DB)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Children, Community Resources, Discovery Learning
Cowan, David; And Others – 1992
This book is a developmental and sequential program of activities designed for grades K-8 to: (1) build a base of awareness, understanding, and skills required for conflict prevention and resolution; (2) give students practice using a variety of strategies for managing and resolving conflict; (3) create opportunities for students to apply those…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Activity Units, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Download full textWebb, Donald F., Jr. – 1997
When studying nature and its wonders, children need to be the explorers, the innovators, and the teachers. The adult assumes the role of a facilitator, an observer, and a mediator. If the adult in a given situation is simultaneously and genuinely exploring the area (not just observing children acting upon it), then a bridge may be started to the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Activities, Childhood Attitudes, Discovery Learning
PDF pending restorationTeachers' Curriculum Inst., Mountain View, CA. – 1995
This book is used as a two-day workshop for teachers in how to use the "History Alive!" program. The three premises of the program include: (1) cooperative interaction; (2) multiple intelligences; and (3) the spiral curriculum. The strategies developed focus upon: (1) Interactive Slide Lectures; (2) Social Studies Skill Builders; (3)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Cultural Differences
Levstik, Linda S.; Barton, Keith C. – 1997
This book draws on classroom experience to provide models of instructionally sound, thoughtful, and thought-provoking history teaching for students from a wide variety of backgrounds. Most chapters begin with a classroom vignette showing a community of inquiry as students are actively engaged in their history education. Each vignette offers a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Helm, Judy Harris, Ed. – 1998
Projects are in-depth studies of a topic undertaken by a class, a group, or an individual child. Projects are intended to strengthen children's dispositions to be interested, absorbed, and involved in in-depth observation, investigation, and representation of worthwhile phenomena in their own environments. This Catalog on the Project Approach, the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Creative Development, Discovery Learning
