Using interviews and 10 weeks of consecutive lesson plans with supporting documentation, the author analyzes four first-year teachers' assigned in-class and out-of-class reading assignments and their choices and uses of reading strategies they learned in their preservice program. (Contains 2 tables.)

While other factors affect mastery of a lesson, closure helps learners know what they learned, why they learned it, and how it is useful. The five most common methods of closure are reviewed and techniques for incorporating them into lesson planning are discussed. (MT)

There is no part of the education given in the schools of a democracy like this one that is of more importance to society and State than that which has to do with social and civic relations. The purpose of the lessons contained in this bulletin is to enable teachers of children in the elementary grades in city schools to make a good practical…

The article asserts that setting minimal requirements for all grades and drawing appropriate lesson guides (some models of which are provided) is a more meaningful and humanistic approach to learning than the setting of rigid behavioral objectives. (Author/JB)

Lists the ways that children benefit from movement and dance activities and presents a lesson plan. (SJL)

A lesson plan is presented for dealing with the concept of loss and its relationship to dying, death, and bereavement. (MM)

Presents a lesson plan for showing children how to operate a TRS-80 Color Computer. (SJL)

Presented is a four-lesson unit for teaching intermediate grade pupils how to outline. (SJL)

In rural Goldsboro, North Carolina, most young students have little awareness of art and its importance in their lives. The author designed a 45-minute lesson for grades K-4 which helps children to recognize and appreciate artworks that exist around them. (SJL)

Describes how the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT), a large-scale digital library project, can be used to assist college instructors in designing lessons. Examines two instructional aspects of digital libraries: personalized knowledge bases (the knowledge of any domain), and structured views of the knowledge base (a subset of the…

Describes a process for teaching students to create a theatrical character based on a picture, an animal, a color, etc. Provides ways for students to define the internal and external qualities of the character, and offers exercises such as "pantomime based on a picture" and "using animal image." (PRA)

Describes ways to use the Internet in marketing education and provides a sample lesson plan for Internet activities. (SK)