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Instructor, 1978
Describes eleven ideas for classroom learning centers including: dinosaurs, pets, role playing, music, your own zoo, a bright circuit board, typing, a talking bull, weather, dictionary, and pen pals. (JMB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories
Instructor, 1978
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories, Teaching Methods
Austin, Marion – Teacher, 1977
The wealth of brochures, booklets and lore available from historic sites can be used to create exciting learning stations. Centers filled with facts and artifacts of landmarks make local and area history come alive for students and individualize the social studies curriculum. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Zjawin, Dorothy – Teacher, 1977
Want to stimulate more interest in reading and writing? Then choose a favorite story or poem as the starting point for a colorful and varied learning center. Base your selection on your students' grade level and interests and gear your activities to the range of ability levels in your class. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories
Godfrey, Lorraine – Teacher, 1978
Create a variety of activities related to the country you are studying--Japan, for example--and arrange them by such subjects as art, games, creative writing, maps, dress and greetings. These activities can be tied in with classroom learning centers or stations. Here students make passports, learn about traditional styles of dress in Japan, learn…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories, Social Studies
Zjawin, Dorothy – Teacher, 1978
Most children have visited a city even if they don't live in one. Build on your students' city experience through a learning center. Here are some activities that will help city children visualize the geographic location of their neighborhoods within the city while they learn language and math skills and about social studies and art activities.…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Language Acquisition

Moore, Floy S. – Music Educators Journal, 1976
Describes a management plan for thirty individualized learning studios in the general music class. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Learning Experience

Coley, Joan D. – Reading World, 1983
Describes structured and open-ended evaluation techniques that permit students in a reading center to rate their own reading performance. (FL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Laboratories
Dugan, Virginia – Teacher, 1977
Plenty of subject choices make creative writing personal and successful. (Editor)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Guidelines, Individualized Instruction
Meyer, Margaret – Teacher, 1978
Directions are given for making and using spelling learning centers with an Olympics theme. Each learning station is presented as a sports event, for example, Spelling Slalom, Definitions Discus, and Word Recall Race. (SJL)
Descriptors: Athletics, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Learning Centers (Classroom)
Whitesel, Sue – Teacher, 1979
Described is a "joke center" where elementary school students not only learned about various kinds of humor and practiced language skills but had a terrific week of laughter as they shared favorite jokes and made up new ones. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Humor, Language Arts

Lauderdale, Ann G. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1977
Describes the Anthropology Learning Centers Enrichment Program developed by volunteer parents for children achieving at or above grade level in grades three through six in a Michigan elementary school in the period February-May, 1975. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Betancourt, Ralph – Today's Education, 1975
In this article, an elementary teacher explains how he used four different approaches to instruction during the first half of the year--traditional, semi-open, open, and learning centers--and let the students choose which they preferred for the rest of the year. (CD)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Conventional Instruction, Elementary Education
Needham, Dorothy – Teacher, 1977
National Fire Protection Week is a perfect time for launching a fire safety learning center. The activities described here are intended to help children recognize fire hazards in their homes, play areas and public buildings; learn how to act intelligently in fire emergencies; be able to share their knowledge of fire safety with others and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Fire Protection, Instructional Materials

Sherard, Wade H. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1985
A class of preservice teachers was divided into teams to research geometry, measurement, probability, and statistics topics and ascertain ways each can be taught to children. Activities are set up so other students can work with them. References and materials are listed. (MNS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories
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