A study of the nuclear arms race usually involves curiosity about the Soviet Union. Students want to know about all aspects of the USSR. How teachers can help students see the human side of the Soviets and understand the Soviet point of view is discussed. (RM)

Fraction strips are suggested as good conceptual models to focus on the meaning of fractions. Making the strips, beginning activities, connecting symbols, more concept activities, and working with two fractions are each illustrated. (MNS)

Compares the effectiveness of two types of classroom vocabulary instruction with a noninstruction type homework assignment. (FL)

Through the use of history resource folders containing literature and primary source materials, elementary teachers can involve children in historical issues. Discusses how to design and construct the resource folders and provides suggestions for themes, source materials, and learning activities. (RM)

Traditional teaching methods often do not motivate students to take an active part in learning. Gives examples of how concepts of creativity can be realized in schools. Writing poetry, meditation, fantasy/Utopian thinking, telling stories, can all be utilized in high school political education. (Author/CS)

Discusses learning how to compose a film as one way children can learn the valuable lesson of how to give form to ideas and shape to thought. Presents the stages of composing a film and a sequence of filmmaking activities for introduction at progressive grade levels. (HTH)

Discusses how a college literature class staged a mock murder trial of the main character of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," using the text to substantiate the prosecution and defense. This method encouraged previously quiet students to join in class discussion and fostered a careful interpretation of the story. (HTH)

Describes a nonthreatening method for introducing videotaping to a speech class by allowing students to construct videotaped projects, such as news programs or interviews in groups. (HTH)

Some general suggestions for using films to teach values education are discussed, and two specific lessons for using films to teach secondary students about the conflict over the use of French and English in Quebec and Canada and about war are presented. (RM)

Childrens' historical books by author Jean Fritz offer teachers a stepping stone to fun and interesting history units. Make-believe journeys, time lines, role playing, and storytelling activities based on the Fritz biographies help children learn many different skills. (DF)

The primary purposes of this project were to (a) determine the extent of faculty interest in learning more about instructional techniques and (b) to begin to provide a service to cater to this end. (Author)

Suggestions for implementing learning activity centers for basic business. (HD)

Suggestions are given concerning the use of the pocket calculator for computations that are too trivial to be processed by a computer but too time-consuming for manual calculation. Several examples from arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus are included. (DT)

A laboratory exercise is described in which students view the environment through a transparent frontal parallel plane. The relationship of projected size to distance can be studied, and other cues to distance based on this geometric relationship can be appreciated. (Author/AV)