In response to requests from out-of-school time (OST) providers, the authors have created this practitioner's guidebook for integrating adolescent literacy development initiatives into a wide variety of OST programs. As readers will discover in subsequent chapters, the authors' definition of adolescent literacy development represents a…

Article described a way to help young students develop their vocabulary and word recognition skills. (RK)

Articles suggested how students can learn pinhole photography, developing their compositional styles, developing films without darkrooms, and utilizing existing educational resources for film developing. (RK)

Are you one of those people who feel that the only good insect is a dead one? Do you suffer from entomophobia--dread fear of insects? Such attitudes, fears, and prejudices stem from insect ignorance. Authors explain what insects are good for and give students a more realistic and fascinating view of their world. (Editor/RK)

Provides some ideas that change the pace and get students ready for learning. (Editor/RK)

Author developed a metric olympics in order to provide students with exercise, fun and practice with metric measurement. (Author/RK)

Authors served up a variety of techniques for investigating sound sources and sound patterns. Have you considered creating a composition from breathing sounds? Or constructing a conversation in percussion? These ideas are included along with step-by-step directions for making nine percussion instruments. (Editor)

Includes learning activities that will help motivate students to ask questions and seek alternative solutions to problems. Children will better understand themselves and the world around them when they begin to relate to time and space, develop such thinking skills as classifying and ordering and make connections between objects and events.…

Discussion of the use of creative dramatics with gifted students considers the value of creative dramatics; components of creative dramatics (structure, open-endedness, a safe environment, and feedback); the actor's elements (voice, body, character or imagination, and group work). Specific exercises to develop the actor's elements are described.…

One of the nicest things about being a student in a class in creativity is in always being "right." The completed creation, the imaginative response, is always a "right answer." Article discussed creative projects and how to develop them while developing an imaginative exploration. (Author/RK)

Presents the results of the Best Teaching Idea contest that sparked a response that flooded the editors with entries. Here are the 20 adjudged the best ranging all the way from self-made computers to games made by kids to be played with parents. (Editor/RK)

The artfully inviting teacher utilizes both personal and professional teaching strategies and is thus most successful at maximizing student development. Personally inviting behaviors send messages which communicate caring and positive regard. Professionally inviting behaviors increase the recipients' efficacy, competence, and independence.…

How's the weather? It can be rainy, cloudy, foggy, hot or cold when students understand the hows and whys. (Editor)

Map reading offers insights into a kind of literacy and communication area which involves the printed word with pictorial and symbolic representations. A method for developing basic skills in map reading within the confines of the classroom was described. (Author/RK)

Curiosity can be developed and nurtured through application of such educational principles as the rewarding of questioning, the use of open questions, delaying answers, accepting incompleteness in existing knowledge, etc. Teaching techniques for stimulating curiosity include brain questioning, role playing, hypothesizing, and pursuing curiosity.…