Block building activities help develop students' spatial reasoning, but few studies focus on the development of block building skills beyond preschool. We worked with four kindergarten, four first grade, and four second grade students to learn more about their Lego block building. We compared students' accuracy, building strategies, and spatial…

Participation in a classroom-based study provided Grade 4 students with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal ensembles. Intentionally-designed instruction during the multifaceted research included a variety of…

Describes collagraph printmaking, which offers many opportunities for exploration of a diversity of materials to achieve exciting effects in print. (Editor/RK)

Shows that illustrations of even the most seemingly common objects may not be recognized by children and that nonrecognition may defeat the purpose of materials, such as dictionaries, which are designed for independent work. Bibliography. (RW)

Research supported by the Central Fund for Research, Pennsylvania State University. (LS)