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Kavak, Nusret – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
Learning the symbolic language of chemistry is a difficult task that can be frustrating for students. This article introduces a game, ChemOkey, that can help students learn the names and symbols of common ions and their compounds in a fun environment. ChemOkey, a game similar to Rummikub, is played with a set of 106 plastic or wooden tiles. The…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Familiarity, Symbolic Language, Science Instruction
Pandey, Annette H. – Arts & Activities, 2010
The author could have chosen any ancient symbolic language, such as Egyptian or Pre-Columbian, but being from Denmark, she developed a unit that would introduce American students to artwork familiar to northern Europeans. Looking at examples of ancient art from Denmark and Sweden, students were to think about the use of symbols in ancient time and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In late October 2000, Franklin Scott and Nicholas Thomas, 11th-graders at a high school in Alachua County, Florida, each displayed a Confederate flag on campus. Scott did so on his pickup truck, and Thomas did so on his T-shirt. The principal, Lamar Simmons, had given each of them a warning when they had engaged in such conduct earlier in the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Symbolic Language