Create a variety of activities related to the country you are studying--Japan, for example--and arrange them by such subjects as art, games, creative writing, maps, dress and greetings. These activities can be tied in with classroom learning centers or stations. Here students make passports, learn about traditional styles of dress in Japan, learn…

Using materials clipped from newspapers, students in a Typing I laboratory learn how to tabulate, proofread, type letters, and reports, etc., and work independently and evaluate other students' work. (TA)

Described is a "joke center" where elementary school students not only learned about various kinds of humor and practiced language skills but had a terrific week of laughter as they shared favorite jokes and made up new ones. (Author/KC)

In this article, an elementary teacher explains how he used four different approaches to instruction during the first half of the year--traditional, semi-open, open, and learning centers--and let the students choose which they preferred for the rest of the year. (CD)

A class of preservice teachers was divided into teams to research geometry, measurement, probability, and statistics topics and ascertain ways each can be taught to children. Activities are set up so other students can work with them. References and materials are listed. (MNS)

Suggestions for implementing learning activity centers for basic business. (HD)

Provides some possible ideas for music learning centers focusing on listening activities, music-making, and "potpurri". (Author/RK)

Education students studying Early Childhood Education at the University of Alberta learn about principles underlying open education. Through self-experiencing an alternative way of organizing children's learning experiences, they can develop their own philosophy of education. (Author/RK)

Provides a guide for setting up learning centers in easily handled stages. Discusses six stages in the development of individualized instruction through the use of learning centers and offers specific guidelines for using this technique for facilitating instruction. (FL)

By exploring languages other than their own, children can learn important concepts about the nature of language. The center described here was designed to help a class of sixth graders understand that within their own structure languages assign meanings to symbols arbitrarily and to stimulate interest in the way languages operate. (Author)

This article outlines secondary social studies lesson plans on Bicentennial topics. The lessons contain strategies to help teachers prepare hands on student materials for classroom learning stations. For journal availability see SO 504 433. (Author/RM)

Describes the generation and use of experimental data in teaching economics. Includes a double oral auction experiment and a monopoly pricing experiment. Concludes that such experiments allow the instructor to see what the students have learned, how they reason, and what parts of the material have proved difficult. (DK)