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)

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)

This month's article presents three reading skills reinforcement centers that will strengthen your individualized reading program and make it more flexible. (Editor)

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)

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…

Describes how to organize Learning Centers, the basic curriculum decisions to be made with respect to learning objectives, activities, materials involved, and the process of evaluation to monitor pupils' progress. (GA)

Four successful content area writing aids have been developed in the writing center at a southeastern community college. The first is a content area writing lab, tailored to a sociology course, in which students receive concentrated instruction on notetaking, studying for and taking essay exams, and writing a questionnaire and an analysis paper.…

Addresses the problem of providing individualized attention in classes which, because of fiscal restraints, have 30 to 40 students. Presents five suggestions for the improved apportionment of the teacher's time through the use of learning lab materials and paraprofessional aides. Discusses the effectiveness of the lecture-reading-discussion…

Guidelines for replicating the Educational Research Associates' (ERA) individualized instruction system are presented. The ERA system uses audio recordings in place of traditional lectures for student instruction. The audio recordings are augmented by a printed syllabus or workbook which requires substantial notetaking and/or problem solving so…

A description of the twenty learning center units for advanced classes developed by the French and Spanish teacher-participants. Learning centers permit students to work independently at well-defined tasks. The units deal with housing, shopping, cooking, transportation, sports, fiestas, literature, history, architecture, painting, and music.…

The selections in this book encompass a broad spectrum of resource-based learning experiences, and are intended to help teachers and administrators gain a better understanding of the concepts and devise effective and efficient ways to use these materials. Titles include: "Introducing Resources for Learning" (Sally Brown and Brenda…