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| Piper, Judy | 3 |
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| Davis, Jean M. | 1 |
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Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Presents two writing activities for math class that help students explore contexts for multiplication and write multiplication stories. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Presents three activities that use literature as a springboard for the study of history/social science and as a prompt for original writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Provides specific writing activities to be used with seven different books in the context of both primary and intermediate grade level writing instruction. (HB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Steenbergen, Neil Van – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Presents the first of a series of four articles that offer ideas and activities that can help students see the relevancy of social science in their lives. Focuses on family issues. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Family Life, Family Problems, Family Relationship
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
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a range of classroom writing activities to go along with three books for children or adolescents: "On My Honor" (Marion Dane Bauer), "Knots on a Counting Rope" (Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault), and "Piggybook" (Anthony Browne). (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities
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
Steenbergen, Neil Van – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Offers a range of classroom, writing, research, and small-group activities on racial issues for the social studies classroom. Deals with stereotypes, racial issues at school and beyond the classroom, and building alliances. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Stereotypes
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
Steenbergen, Neil Van – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Offers numerous classroom activities, primarily writing and experimental activities, in which students have an opportunity to discover the prevalence of gender bias in language, thought, and behavior, its impact on their lives, and how to honor gender differences and to validate their own unique strengths. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues, Sex Bias
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
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