Activities for middle/junior high school students are presented, including use of string variables, science lesson ideas, computer scavenger hunt, and guidelines for interviewing people who own/use computers. Includes "I'll Write...Just Lead Me to My Computer" by Robert Engberg, discussing word processing instruction. (JN)

Discusses computer uses in science classrooms, cautioning teachers not to put a "screen" between students and the natural world. Teaching about computers (rather than teaching with computers), teaching students to appreciate computers as tools, and computer strengths are among the topics considered. (JN)

Considers whether microcomputers are useful merely as tools to teach "the basics" or whether they will help define new basics, important skills that educators have been neglecting entirely. Provides descriptions of software (including "Baffles," which enables children to become practitioners of the scientific method) involving students in…

Discussed are several designs for integrating computers into the instructional program of the school. Included are the classroom based computer, the laboratory model, and the mini-lab model. Floor plans and suggestions are included. (CW)

Introduces the 1988 IBM/Classroom Computer Learning teacher of the year. Explores some of his teaching methods and ideas. Discusses his winning project of having students do research projects using a modem hookup to CompuServe. (MVL)

Discusses three programs where mirocomputers were added to the classroom to introduce technology and aid in instruction. Presents a high school chemistry class with a modem hookup to Purdue University, an elementary facility to track students by mastery, and a project where fourth graders each received a computer for home. (MVL)