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A Modest Proposal to Reduce the Number of Social Studies Reports Written by Students.
Polin, Linda – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Suggests three authentic and empowering roles for writing in the social studies classroom: rhetoric, persuasion, and commentary. Gives examples and suggests activities for each. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric, Secondary Education
Eggs and Living Things: A Kindergarten Science Project.
Scali, Nancy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes a kindergarten science project that incorporates writing, mathematics, science, art, and technology as students investigate the question: what is the largest living thing to hatch out of an egg? (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Integrated Activities, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Classroom Writing Activities to Support the Curriculum.
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes briefly several children's books that lend themselves to writing activities to support math and science instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
Comparing Raisins: A Lesson with Fifth Graders (Writing in Math Class).
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
Jostens Learning: Write for Tomorrow.
Ludwig, Susan – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes the Jostens Learning Writing Program, which integrates reading, writing, and thinking instruction in realistic literacy tasks, using real-life experiences and everyday applications. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Content Area Writing, Integrated Activities
Classroom Writing Activities to Support the Curriculum.
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
In the Words of Teachers: The Private Eye Workshops and the Writing/Thinking Process.
Coe, Gretchen; And Others – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Presents six teachers' responses to the "Private Eye" workshop (which encourages thinking by analogy and incorporating writing in many forms into content area teaching). Notes that the workshop was described in two articles in the November/December 1993 issue of this journal. Notes the energy that flows out of the teachers' writing about…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Response
Talking Back to Columbus: Teaching for Justice and Hope.
Bigelow, Bill – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Argues that no curricular task is more important than encouraging students to deconstruct the powerful social myth of Columbus. Describes ways to invite students to "talk back" to Columbus and all he symbolizes and to encourage students' appreciation of their own capacities to make a difference. (SR)
Descriptors: Activism, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Resistance (Psychology)
Ten Black Dots (Writing in Math Class).
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a mathematics lesson for use with first graders based on a storybook about 10 black dots. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1
Thinking about Fractions (Writing in Mathematics Class).
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
The Firehouse Problem (Writing in Math Class).
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes a class activity using graph theory in the form of finding the least number of firehouses needed to serve a town as mapped by a series of points and lines connecting the points. Notes that the third graders eagerly attacked the problem, and themselves suggested that the problem could be used in grades 2-8. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Writing Assignments within Major Content Areas (Lab Notes).
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