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Riley, Tracy L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1997
This paper explores the use of conceptual themes as a framework for interdisciplinary studies with gifted students. Describes sample themes and suggested student products, as well as guidelines for brainstorming, planning activities, facilitating production, and evaluating student products. (PB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Karges-Bone, Linda – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1991
Use of classic book units with gifted elementary students is described as an interdisciplinary approach to stimulating student interest. Sample activities are offered from a unit on Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," with linguistic, artistic-creative, scientific, mathematical, and socio-leadership activities, classified as application,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Gifted, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts
Illinois Art Education Association, Aurora. – 1990
This publication includes descriptions of arts programs, units of study, lesson plans, and course outlines submitted by Illinois arts teachers who answered the invitation to document their successful approaches to art edication. This compilation was not designed to be prescriptive, but to be representative of activities in Illinois. The articles…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History
McCrary, Dierdre – Learning, 1993
Describes a multicultural unit for elementary students. Children select a folk art or craft and become experts, learn the craft, research the craft, pass the craft on, and review their discoveries. The unit culminates in a folk arts festival at which students demonstrate their craft to classmates, teachers, and guests. (SM)
Descriptors: Craft Workers, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
Morrow, S. Rex – 1989
Although world history and global studies programs in U.S. public schools have expanded in recent years, teaching about India and South Asia has remained insufficient. As a result, students often develop cultural misunderstandings and false stereotypes. India, as a focus of study, provides students with the opportunity to examine an ancient…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Curriculum, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Gleason, Joni J. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1991
This article presents arguments for including activities to develop students' sense of humor and related skills in the gifted curriculum. Cognitive skills, reading, writing, mathematics, communications skills, and self-concept are seen as beneficiaries of humor units. A group activity and projects for a school comedy club are described. (PB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comedy, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences Education. – 1995
This parenthood education curriculum is organized into eight units designed for use in approximately 8 weeks of instruction. Each unit includes the following: an overview, an introductory focus question, a lesson synopsis, basic concepts, lesson objectives, a brief review of basic information, materials, equipment, and advance preparation needed,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Course Content, Family Life, Integrated Curriculum
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Bisland, Amy – Gifted Child Today, 2003
This article discusses the benefits of student participation in a gifted public relations campaign, including creating public support for gifted programming and developing leadership skills. Steps for developing a formal unit of instruction on public relations are described, along with ideas for public relations activities. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Gifted, Leadership Training
Flack, Jerry – Teaching Pre K-8, 1994
Describes the organization of a multidisciplinary unit on inventions and inventors. Teachers can use journals, quotations, classroom museums, and learning centers to help develop their students' language, mathematics, science, social studies, and science skills. Includes a list of books for students and teachers on inventions. (MDM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inventions, Language Arts, Learning Centers (Classroom)
Berghoff, Beth; Borgmann, Cindy Bixler; Parr, N. Carlotta – National Art Education Association, 2005
This book explores how the arts, with their focus on aesthetic ways of knowing, impact the learning of our college students. Chapter 1, "Jamie: A Learner Profile," profiles the learning of Jamie, an elementary art teacher who was a student in a 2-week summer courses. The book starts with this profile to metaphorically prime the pump with images,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Teacher Education, Profiles, College Students
Singelis, Theodore M., Ed. – 1998
This book is a resource for teachers that contains 28 exercises and planned activities designed by individual authors that can be used to teach about culture, ethnicity, and diversity. The exercises and activities are appropriate for graduate, college, and even advanced high school students in such classes as cross-cultural psychology,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student)
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Carton, Dana – Modern Language Journal, 1981
Offers guideline for the typical continuing education noncredit course, discussing the restrictions imposed by the minimal number of contact hours and the heterogeneous grouping of students. Recommends independently structured learning modules and a thematic approach, using practical conversational language and lively class activities. (MES)
Descriptors: Adults, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Continuing Education
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Munk, Dennis D.; Bruckert, Jana; Call, Deborah T.; Stoehrmann, Traci; Radandt, Erin – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Provides an overview of curricular and instructional adaptations, modifications, and methods that have been used to provide science instruction to students with learning disabilities. Strategies are described within the context of a textbook-based unit on the solar system. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities
Kourilsky, Marilyn; Quaranta, Lory – 1987
This book is for both teachers in training and those already in the classroom. It covers the underlying skills necessary for curriculum development, focusing on initiating, developing, implementing, and evaluating written lesson and unit plans. In addition, the book presents a wide range of instructional strategies, from the lecture method to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Technology
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1980
The guide was designed to aid administrators and teachers in creating, organizing, and staffing music programs for students in middle schools or grades 5-8 in Oregon. It is presented in four parts. Part I describes the unique features of the middle school. The environment and students are in a period of change, and teachers must have certain…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
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