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Niess, Margaret L. – Computing Teacher, 1988
Description of the use of Logo for teaching geometry is the first in a two-part series on the development of Logo tools for doing middle school mathematics. The learning process is discussed, and examples of activities integrating Logo with teacher-prepared procedures are presented. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Enrichment, Geometry, Integrated Activities

Nuthall, Graham – Elementary School Journal, 1999
Explores, through an analysis of students' experiences in an integrated science and social studies unit, how the students acquired new knowledge. Explains how students learned different things from the same classroom activities and how different classroom activities created different learning processes. Notes implications for design of classroom…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Integrated Activities, Integrated Curriculum
Parker, Robert P.; Goodkin, Vera – 1987
Intended for teachers of grades 7-16, this book discusses "heuristic" writing--writing that produces new, irreversible knowledge for the writer leading to a fuller understanding of the self and of the act of writing--as well as principles and practices having direct implications for a wide range of students. Chapter 1 examines the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Content Area Writing, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing
Siu-Runyan, Yvonne, Ed.; Faircloth, Victoria, Ed. – 1995
Using reading and writing to learn, inquire, construct, and examine ideas across the curriculum is central to an integrated curriculum. Too many middle school students do not view writing as a communication process that permeates the curriculum, nor reading as an active, constructivist process whereby various perspectives can be examined and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adolescent Development, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices