This paper presents a novel approach to teaching how vaccines work in the body, and introduces a community outreach project and activity we piloted with youth. Our Nuestra Ciencia program addresses scientific misconceptions among bilingual elementary school children in engaging and scientifically accurate ways. Utilizing analogies and…

A foreign language learning activity is described in which second-through fourth-year French students write, cast, produce, direct and perform well-known fables for their language classes. The performances are recorded on videotape and shown to other classes and to parents. (Author/RM)

As one component of the Special Arts Project and designed to stimulate the use of creative drama in the classroom, this booklet describes 26 topics for classroom dramatic activities. Examples of topics are slow-motion techniques, simultaneous conversation, magic strings, making an object real, texture walk, word toss, tag freezes, and changing…

Includes two activities: (1) a skit to review variations of the trigonometric functions, and (2) a geometry problem about maximizing costs that exposes students to a variety of different solution strategies and makes the material more meaningful. (MKR)

This document guides teachers through the production of a docu-drama designed to raise environmental awareness for primary school children aged 5-9 years old. The play is a narrated account of seven environmental problems and solutions that is acted in mime, rhyme, and song and could be adapted as a dramatic environmental awareness exercise. The…

Creative dramatics (the spontaneous expression of feelings and ideas in an imaginative manner) brightens the reading program and provides teachers and students with both enjoyable and academically profitable experiences. Any reading teacher can comfortably integrate creative dramatics into the basal reading program. Activities such as creating…

Provides details of performances by the Floating Point Science Theater working with elementary school children about the characteristics of water. Discusses student reactions to various parts of the performances. (DDR)

Designed to give students and adults an opportunity to put their ideas on videotape, this component of the Special Arts Project has as specific goals stimulating student/adult creativity, learning how different people can work together to make a successful program, and making video available to the community as a form of documentation and…

Play-acting is a natural human instinct; role-playing, disguising, game-playing are all favorite activities for people of all ages. In a foreign language course, dramatization is especially appropriate and can be used in many ways both in class and as an extra-curricular or supplementary activity. Much language learning occurs during the…

These units of study will help students in grades five through nine understand the effects various crimes have on individuals, families, and communities. They can be used by teachers, police departments, boy and girl scouts, and community groups. The units deal with shoplifting, buying stolen goods, employee theft, and vandalism. Each lesson…

Three lesson plans for grades seven through nine explore the social, moral, and financial impact of auto and bicycle theft and drinking and driving. Used individually or together as a complete unit, the lesson plans contain dramatic skits derived from real-life experiences of adolescents. Students simulate tough decision making in the face of…

Suggests educational opportunities provided by well-planned campfire activities such as singing, skits, stories, cheers, and readings. Recommends planning a beginning, main body of the program, and an ending to create a meaningful, unified experience. (NEC)

A four-scene skit is presented which is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of how AIDS is transmitted, to describe the control measures necessary to prevent the spread of the disease and to increase awareness of what life would be like living with AIDS. Discussion questions follow the skit. (IAH)

This article outlines the final lesson of a foreign language class based on the theme "Going Out," which provides a review of the entire course work and at the same time provides new vocabulary to the students. (CFM)

Describes process of preparing a show for parents' night (at Herman Street School, East Syracuse-Minoa School District, New York) which evolved from third graders' study of Italy. (SW)