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Sweeney, Jacqueline – 1997
Noting that hearing and reading the words of real people can personalize for students the study of social studies, language arts, and science, this book presents 230 quotations and prompts to enrich curricula and themes in grades 4 through 8. After an introduction and advice on using quotations in the classroom, quotations and prompts in the book…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Group Discussion, History Instruction, Intermediate Grades
Baker, Michael; And Others – 1991
Emphasizing real-life communication skills, this book offers cooperative activities to help teachers supplement their writing programs with easy-to-use critical thinking activities. The activities in the book are suitable for grades 4 through 8, for gifted younger students, or as a remediation tool for older students. The activities in the book…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Descriptive Writing, Intermediate Grades
Theisen, Emmy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes a nine-week interdisciplinary study of the environment for middle school students, based on the computer simulation "Decisions, Decisions: The Environment," which involves group work, independent work, and a lot of writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Environmental Education, Integrated Activities, Intermediate Grades
Pruzan, Kathy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Discusses "Private Eye," an approach to teaching which focuses on developing students as artists, writers, and scientists. Describes how this approach uses the jewelers loupe to examine everyday objects 5 or 10 times bigger, thus altering students' way of viewing the world through the change of scale and through analogy-provoking questions. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Freehand Drawing, Integrated Activities
Download full textRoth, Kathleen J.; And Others – 1992
At the same time that educators and researchers are identifying ways in which major reform and restructuring is needed in schools, research on student learning in science (and other subjects) from constructivist and conceptual-change perspectives is suggesting the potential for significant improvements in students' understanding of science and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Flick, Lawrence B. – 1993
The distinction between the participant and spectator functions of language are used to describe the teaching skills of a fourth grade teacher during a unit of instruction. This study documented the science instruction of a teacher who 20 years ago majored in teaching reading. In recent years she has taken steps to develop skill and knowledge in…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers
Hartsfield, John W.; Hartsfield, Kendra J. – 1985
Since its beginning, space science has created high interest and continues to prod the imagination of students. This activity packet, which has been designed to enhance the curriculum and challenge gifted students, contains background information on spaceflight as well as 24 interdisciplinary classroom activities, 3 crossword puzzles, and 3 word…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Biology, Class Activities, Hands on Science
