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Learning, 1983
Activities for teaching about the solar system, the earth's rotation, plants, pendulums, and animal adaptation are described. Included are suggestions for building scale models to illustrate the solar system's proportions and the earth's rotation speed, and for using playground swings to demonstrate pendulum motion. (PP)
Descriptors: Animals, Astronomy, Demonstrations (Educational), Elementary Education
Dick, Mae, Ed. – Information Update, 1989
This special issue of a quarterly newsletter describes a number of approaches to staff development in adult basic education and English-as-a-Second-Language programs being practiced in New York City. It includes an editorial about the necessity of making the resource commitment to provide full-time jobs and decent health coverage for staff.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Clearinghouses, Demonstrations (Educational)
Peer reviewedLayton, David, Ed. – Studies in Science Education, 1982
Studies in Science Education is an international review of research for all who are interested in the educational dimensions of science. This issue contains these articles: "Teaching about Science, Technology and Society at the Secondary School Level in the United States. An Educational Dilemma for the 1980s" (Mary C. McConnell); Science…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Demonstrations (Educational), Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Download full textBlosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Helgeson, Stanley L., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1986
Abstracts and abstractors' critiques of six science education research studies and two responses to critiques are presented in this journal issue. Each of the studies addressed some aspect of instruction. Areas investigated include: (1) the effects of teacher-demonstration as compared to those of self-paced instruction on student achievement; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, College Science, Curiosity
Loeher, Larry, Ed; And Others – The TA at UCLA Newsletter, 1981
Six issues of a University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) newsletter by and for teaching assistants (TAs) are presented. Each newsletter is a theme issue, covering writing, anxiety, motivation, TA role, and TA training. Topics include: student problems and psychological and counseling services, philosophies about writing, approaches to making…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Counseling Services
