To determine whether attendance at and time spent in industrial arts publishing activity centers effect gains in reading achievement, a study covering three years and involving more than 1,500 students in six elementary schools in New York City was undertaken. Data collected for each student included reading achievement test scores, number of…

Providing opportunities for skill-building, creativity, and reading for content are major objectives of the "funny paper center." This multidisciplinary learning center uses comic strips as facilitators in the classroom. Suggestions are given for language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and art education. (Author/RK)

This unit, one in a series of teacher-developed materials for elementary geography, is based on a part of a social studies textbook, "Topics of Life," Book Two. One section proposes a learning center environment to make learning experiences in social studies possible throughout the entire school day. The text's section has been expanded for this…