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Barry, Martha H.; And Others – 1991
Suggesting combining poetry and science learning, this collection of materials maintains that the natural intersection of science and poetry can be used to stimulate thinking, create interest, and explore new possibilities. The collection includes: (1) the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program's Objectives Reading/Science Match; (2)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation
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
Peer reviewedBristor, Valerie J. – Reading Horizons, 1994
Offers examples of science reading and writing activities (used in a study of the effects of an integrated curriculum strategy on the achievement, attitudes, and self-confidence of fourth- and fifth-grade students) which integrate the language arts and encourage the development of skills through content-based context instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
Download full textWeber, Stephen W. – 1995
A study examined the effectiveness of incorporating writing as a tool to master the concepts of physics. Subjects were students in the three traditional physics classes and one non-math or conceptual physics class at East High School in Rockford, Illinois. The instructor tried a variety of methods--students wrote criticisms of Carl Sagan videos,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Content Area Writing, High Schools
Sweeney, Jacqueline – 1997
Noting that hearing and reading the words of real people can personalize for students the study of social studies, language arts, and science, this book presents 230 quotations and prompts to enrich curricula and themes in grades 4 through 8. After an introduction and advice on using quotations in the classroom, quotations and prompts in the book…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Group Discussion, History Instruction, Intermediate Grades
Hoberg, Rosemary; Plante, Donna – Insights into Open Education, 1992
This integrated curricular unit on frogs, developed for the second grade, focuses primarily on integrating reading, writing, and science. The unit discusses introducing students to frogs, predicting results in science, learning about classification in science, reading factual science books, extending the topic into literature and the arts,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Grade 2
Baker, Michael; And Others – 1991
Emphasizing real-life communication skills, this book offers cooperative activities to help teachers supplement their writing programs with easy-to-use critical thinking activities. The activities in the book are suitable for grades 4 through 8, for gifted younger students, or as a remediation tool for older students. The activities in the book…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Descriptive Writing, Intermediate Grades
Sensenbaugh, Roger – 1992
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on reading and writing activities for use in the high school science and math classroom. The 43 lesson plans in this book cover writing about science, reading about science, the vocabulary of science, short scientific…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
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
Peer reviewedSrulowitz, Frances – Science and Children, 1992
Describes an activity to develop students' skills of observation and recordkeeping by studying the growth of a tree's leaves during the spring. Children monitor the growth of 11 tress over a 2-month period, draw pictures of the tree at different stages of growth, and write diaries of the tree's growth. (MDH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Freehand Drawing
Hartsfield, John W.; Hartsfield, Kendra J. – 1985
Since its beginning, space science has created high interest and continues to prod the imagination of students. This activity packet, which has been designed to enhance the curriculum and challenge gifted students, contains background information on spaceflight as well as 24 interdisciplinary classroom activities, 3 crossword puzzles, and 3 word…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Biology, Class Activities, Hands on Science
