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Learning, 1992
A collection of activities and tips for elementary teachers, culled from material the magazine has published over 20 years, includes cornerstones of classroom management, top teaching strategies, and curriculum classics. A new poster offers activities for commemorating student birthdays and for enjoying the first day of school. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Sturgis, Judy – Learning, 1988
Use of a checkbook can hook even the most reluctant mathematics students into learning mathematical and problem-solving skills. (CB)
Descriptors: Accounting, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Burns, Marilyn – Learning, 1980
Mathematics instruction can be approached as a cognitive skill, as illustrated by these elementary-level classroom activities. (LH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computation, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education
Lincoln, Wanda – Learning, 1992
Presents suggestions on how to incorporate elementary student decision making into classroom routine. The article recommends teachers be models, provide food for thought, focus on student strengths, introduce decision-making processes, and provide practice. Seven steps to making good decisions and activities to develop decision-making skills are…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education, Problem Solving
Samples, Bob – Learning, 1984
Children use creative thinking processes when teachers assign ambiguous rather than specific problems. Suggestions for developing questions that encourage experiential and metaphorical thinking are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Assignments, Creative Development, Elementary Education
Paine, Carolyn; Arnold, Anne Jurmu – Learning, 1983
A teaching unit on economics discusses basic background information, suggests classroom activities, and lists sources of instructional resources. Reproducible masters for two instructional levels are included and introduce economics law and basic financial management. (FG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Education, Economic Climate, Economics Education
Prutzman, Priscilla – Learning, 1994
The article presents several activities designed to sharpen students' listening and observation skills and help them practice finding and evaluating alternatives to classroom conflicts and conflicts they may encounter elsewhere. Activities include solution skits, role playing, reading and writing conflict stories, and making comic strips. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Freeman, Darlene; And Others – Learning, 1991
This problem-solving activity book offers tools for attacking problems in the classroom and beyond (a reproducible card set explaining problem-solving skills, a math problem-solving grid, problem-solving lessons in science, language arts, and social studies, and a poster following scientists as they fight to reclaim an endangered species). (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
