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Download full textRieber, Lloyd P. – 1994
This paper presents a historical overview of visualization as a human problem-solving tool. Visualization strategies, such as mental imagery, pervade historical accounts of scientific discovery and invention. A selected number of historical examples are presented and discussed on a wide range of topics such as physics, aviation, and the science of…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Blackwood, Paul E. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This bulletin is one of a series on the place of subjects in the elementary school curriculum. The first of the series showed how subject matter is introduced into the program in a modern school. The other bulletins in the series discuss how various skills, such as reading, creating in art, and writing are developed in the modern school program.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Development, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewedAllen, Rodney F.; Hammons-Bryner, Sue – Social Studies, 1990
Advocates using broadsides, a form of public announcements in the colonial era, as an example of easily obtainable historical source materials. Examines how studying broadsides promotes skills associated with historical inquiry. Outlines a six-step model for teaching with broadsides. Provides three sample lessons for classroom use of broadsides.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Arno, Joan; Grady, Helen – 1998
The adventures of Ibn Battuta, the Muslim world traveler, provide a mechanism for teaching about the early 14th century. The study of Ibn Battuta helps students to understand what is known about the past and how it is known, in terms of both history and historiography. The unit can be presented in connection with such commonly taught topics as…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
Anderson, Stephen S.; Flanders, Claudia; Landers, David – 1998
The integration of the study of art and history in a broad context of social, cultural, and political meaning cultivates a students' creative, aesthetic, critical and art historical sensibilities. This unit of study explores the time of the Roman Emperor Trajan, the decades from A.D. 98 to 180, a period considered to be the height of civilization.…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Art Education, Class Activities, Critical Thinking
West, Jean M., Ed. – 1996
This unit of study (for grades 5-8) about immigrants to the United States during the 19th century contains four elements: (1) a set of reproductions of documents; (2) a list of documents with their specific archival reference numbers and a brief synopsis of their historical significance to the unit's theme; (3) 10 classroom activities; and (4) an…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
West, Jean M., Ed. – 1996
This unit of study (for grades 5-8) about immigrants to the United States at the turn of the century and into the 20th century contains four elements: (1) a set of reproductions of documents; (2) a list of documents with their specific archival reference numbers and a brief synopsis of their historical significance to the unit's theme; (3) 11…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
