This article explores the importance of embedding Active Exploration teaching approaches within PE lessons and how the provision of differing equipment and divergent learning opportunities can enable choice for students to then 'self-discover' solutions to movement problems. The article showcases how Active Exploration approaches to teaching PE…

In science education, there is a need to evaluate the behavior of dynamic systems. Representing and explaining processes through educational models or simulations enables students to perform activities where it is easier to understand these processes and discover the essential properties of a system. Performing modeling or simulation activities…

Bruner's constructs of learning, specifically the structure of learning, spiral curriculum, and discovery learning, in conjunction with the Cognitive Load Theory, are used to evaluate the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM), an inquiry-oriented inductive language arts strategy designed to teach K-6 children phonics and spelling. The PWIM reflects…

A number of studies have shown that spending time in nature produces cognitive benefits. What if a child's exposure to the out-of-doors is considered not just a beneficial extracurricular activity, but a fundamental building block to an elementary education in math and science? The Young Achievers Science and Math Pilot School operates a 9:30 a.m.…

Two labs incorporating the Science Writing Heuristic are described that introduce scientific inquiry in a course for preservice students majoring in elementary education. One lab adapts a previously described discovery learning opportunity involving the change in composition and mass of pennies in 1982. The other involves the use of flotation…

Describes a grandmother's experience in working on a rainbow experiment with her granddaughter. Gives suggestions on how teachers can help students in discovering science and share experiences with them. Introduces two rainbow experiments and gives details on how to carry out these experiments. (MOK)

With the exploration approach, children learn by doing--not by rote. (Editor)

Describes program developed under Ford Foundation grant. (RT)

Illustrates and discusses the nonlinear curriculum and suggests some implications of the teacher's role in this approach to informal learning. (ED)

Describes the process of play as a basis for language arts learning by gifted children. (DD)

This paper reviews and analyzes the term "exploration" as used with selected models associated with the instruction of children. (MT)

Provides some brief suggestions for teaching students about color, including an activity for use during outdoor field trips or in local parks. Questions for provoking student explorations of color mixing and the functions of color in nature are provided, which use the scientific method as a model for structuring student observations. (PB)

Describes an approach for teaching art appreciation in elementary art classes in which the teacher does not tell students what they should see in a picture but asks them what they could see. As an example, how second graders discussed and told stories about the picture "American Gothic" is described. (AM)