Describes a four-week college history unit on Hiroshima designed to stimulate creativity and imagination in a large class. Activities included readings, films, short essays, and dramatizations and emphasized a multisided approach. (CK)

Presented is a useful metric game suitable for players above age eight. It provides practice in estimating lengths as well as in actual linear measurement. (MP)

The instruction of BASIC programing to gifted and other interested pupils from fifth through eighth grades in Tempe, Arizona is described. Sample assignments and major recommendations for people planning to begin BASIC programing courses for elementary students are featured. (MP)

Five different perspectives on creativity in teaching are examined: (1) Creativity is developed by making teaching methods from almost nothing. (2) Creativity is fostered by idealizing without constraint. (3) Creativity can be developed through analogs. (4) Creativity can mean to reorganize or modify. (5) Creativity can be fostered using a forced…

Offers suggestions on how teachers can use different teaching methods to get students to like and value social studies. Information is presented on involving all teachers and administrators in initial social studies planning, encouraging feedback, developing meaningful staff development programs, and diagnosing students' social and learning needs…

Exercises designed to aid students to practice or apply particular mathematical concepts and/or relationships using calculators are promoted, with four specific reasons for allowing this kind of activity. Specific cases dealing with number relationships and estimation are covered as examples. (MP)

The author explains how she taught third- and fourth-graders the skills needed to produce a class newspaper: note-taking, layout, news writing, and proofreading. She found that learning research skills and disciplined newswriting improved students' writing in general. (SJL)

Describes the suggestopedic method and an experiment using it in an American college elementary language class. The class organization, the way suggestopedia works, the classroom program, and results of suggestopedic courses are discussed. (AMH)

Presented is a sampling of radio tapes which are available for use in the classroom, to help social science teachers promote a taste for history and other social sciences in a real and dynamic way. (KC)

Presented is a wide variety of reading activities based on a baseball theme. Included are ideas for teaching library skills, organizing skills, sequence, visual skills, listening comprehension, direction following, vocabulary, word analysis, the five w's, context clues, and finding the main idea. (KC)

Presented is a list of developmental and sequential skills and concepts for preschool through grade 6 students, which can serve as a general guide to presenting and reinforcing globe and earth science basic ideas and related activities. (Author/KC)

Suggests specific supplemental techniques and activities which have proven successful in developing oral English skills in non-English speaking pupils. (Author/SJL)

Spatial concepts are important to the development of many skills, including reasoning and problem solving. Here are guidelines for making geometry learning more effective for elementary-grade students. (Editor)

The use of folding paper strips as a mathematical model in the instruction of operations with fractions is presented. (MP)

Several activities designed to aid students in understanding and using the metric system in measuring weight and volume are presented with worksheets. (MP)