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Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes an activity used with a fifth-grade mathematics class in which students solved a problem and wrote a convincing argument to prove their solution made sense. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Scali, Nancy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes a project in which kindergarten students used maps and computers to create a history on their own community. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Kindergarten Children, Local History, Maps
Reissman, Rose – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes how a teacher integrated an audio cassette version of a Ray Bradbury story into a computer-supported creative writing project in her seventh-grade literature class. (SR)
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Creative Writing, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Marcus, Stephen – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes the Polaroid Education Program. Discusses ways to incorporate instant photography and writing into a range of subject areas. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Photography
Davis, Peter – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes an assignment in which ninth graders created a storybook or a textbook for children in grades 4-6 that would link 4 core subjects: math, English, science, and anthropology. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Grade 9, Interdisciplinary Approach
Clark, G. Christopher – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes the Legends Project in Indiana in which a class collaboratively researches, writes, and illustrates a local legend and sends it via computers and modems to other classes across the state. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Mail, Grade 4
Hironaka, Janet H. – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes the Los Angeles Urbanscape Tour, in which the city of Los Angeles provides 11th graders with a living laboratory of the principles studied in-depth in their literature and social studies classrooms. Describes writing assignments which grew out of the tour. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 11, High Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
Polin, Elane – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a writing assignment in which students write (and send) a letter to a famous person of their choosing. Notes one student's seriousness about the project and the usefulness of peer editing in revising. (SR)
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, Letters (Correspondence), Peer Teaching
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes two activities in a second-grade class that use drawing and writing to explore fractions. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions
Davis, Jean M. – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describe the experiences of a writing teacher as she completed a biography-writing assignment along with her students. Notes that teachers can gain insights into (and an understanding of writing they assign) by doing the assignments along with their students. Notes that many students, even reluctant writers, produced memorable biographies of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Class Activities, Family History, Interpersonal Relationship
Porter, Bernajean – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Provides descriptions of how five teachers in various content areas (mathematics, art, French, physics. and English) at one high school in Illinois feel about the importance of writing. Explains how these teachers incorporate their belief into everyday instruction in their areas. (HB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Content Area Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
Griffin, Scarlett S. – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes a multicultural unit for fifth graders in which each students receives a prop, develops a character around it, and writes a sketch which is videotaped and critiqued. Describes how students' characters identify their differences and figure out how to get along. Notes that students' ongoing relationships with eighth-grade penpals provided…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education
Theisen, Emmy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes a nine-week interdisciplinary study of the environment for middle school students, based on the computer simulation "Decisions, Decisions: The Environment," which involves group work, independent work, and a lot of writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Environmental Education, Integrated Activities, Intermediate Grades
Pruzan, Kathy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Discusses "Private Eye," an approach to teaching which focuses on developing students as artists, writers, and scientists. Describes how this approach uses the jewelers loupe to examine everyday objects 5 or 10 times bigger, thus altering students' way of viewing the world through the change of scale and through analogy-provoking questions. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Freehand Drawing, Integrated Activities
