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Hennessey, Gail Skroback – Learning, 1994
The article presents hands-on classroom projects to teach elementary students about colonial American history. Students make their own natural dyes, cook blueberry slump, and play cup-and-ball the way the colonists did. The activities integrate science, math, history, art, and language arts. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Colonial History (United States), Cooking Instruction, Creative Teaching
Download full textLearning, 1983
The "Idea Place," a regular feature carried by the magazine "Learning," provides an assortment of practical teaching techniques selected from commercially available materials and from ideas submitted by readers. Games, puzzles, and other activities are given for the areas of language arts, reading, mathematics, science, social…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cooking Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Educational Games
Bizba, Tracy; And Others – Learning, 1993
This collection of short descriptions of activities provides tips for teaching elementary students. Activities focus on reading and book selection, differences between rain and snow, cooking bread snakes, place value, family heritage, clothing from around the world, and interviews with war veterans. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooking Instruction, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
