Describes the development and testing of an interdisciplinary unit on mystery. (FL)

Explains the concept of Question-Answer Relationships (QAR), and provides an outline for teaching the strategy. Offers examples of learning experiences that integrate the QAR strategy with mathematics content and offers directions on how to create a unit that integrates strategy instruction with content instruction. (SR)

If one is to know himself and be of some value to society, he needs early in life to learn to be accountable for his actions and his ideas. Suggests that responsibility as an educational philosophy could produce an individual who is an accountable figure and one who would have a stronger place in the world in which he lives. (Author/RK)

Describes a multi-media, open-ended approach to high school social studies that is relevant to any historical period. (AN)

Describes a kind of game which the author devised in a course on Literature for Adolescents, in which teachers were required to design a language arts unit on one of the books read during the course. (Editor/SP)

Describes thematic teaching, presents a rationale for it, and offers middle grades and secondary teachers of history and social studies some practical suggestions for implementing thematic teaching in their classrooms. Presents thematic units on religion, and on national identity and diversity. (RS)

Describes how unit resource notebooks are assembled and used by practicing teachers as a means of organizing resource materials and lesson plans. Outlines numerous sections or components of such resource notebooks. (HB)

Authors report on a recently completed study which measured the responses of students and teachers to mini-courses in the social studies. (Editor/CB)

Presents a social studies unit of study that involves having students conduct investigations of events and people in their own neighborhoods. (FL)

Lists three suggestions for helping teachers resolve the problem of how to endow a subject-matter discipline with the spirit of liberal education. (Author/RK)

Argues that secondary schools need to include more Holocaust studies in their curricula. (FL)

Describes a highly structured six-week teaching unit. Utilizing a variation of criterion grading, it is aimed at quickly producing dramatic improvement in writing skills, with a substantial saving in the amount of time and effort required of the teacher. The program has been tested with college freshmen. (Author/SJL)

Describes a career awareness unit for middle school language arts students which focuses on the special uses of language found in different professions. (SR)

Notes that overcoming the language barriers that science presents is more difficult for English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Identifies how teachers can ground their instruction and assessment in an understanding of the ways that students' educational backgrounds intersect with the content and language demands of science. Outlines…