Designed for use with upper form secondary school and lower-tertiary level students, the three exercises described here each examine one aspect of the nuclear power debate in Great Britain. Each takes the form of a structured case study or debate. (LLS)

Presents class activities, bulletin boards, songs, games, stories, plays, recipes, and art ideas for November and December, with emphasis on Thanksgiving, Book Week, and Christmas. (SJL)

The article provides three games or activities designed to facilitate the introduction of career education into the special education curriculum. (PHR)

The author describes how he has adapted the television quiz show format of "College Bowl" to current events study for junior high school students. An insert explains use of the same technique with fourth graders. (SJL)

Explains three games played with Chem-Deck, a card game which gives students practice in forming chemical compounds by familiarizing them with the charges of various ions. Effectiveness of this technique in terms of cognitive and affective components is supported by statistical data. (CS)

Describes a television game show in Detroit, Michigan, that teaches children to appreciate literature and motivates them to read more. (FL)

Three word puzzles are offered covering social, folk, and square dance terms and a description of a square dance for beginning to intermediate-level dancers. (JMF)

Reports on uses of microcomputers at the University of Michigan including word processing, extending laboratory experience, simulation, games, tutorial uses, and building skills in computing. (RAO)

A case study describing the process involved in publishing a personally developed simulation game including finding a publisher, obtaining a copyright, negotiating the contract, controlling front-end costs, marketing the product, and receiving feedback from users. (CMV)

Suggests educational games that reinforce directional concepts, color recognition, and listening skills. (MP)

Some games for developing children's reading skills are described. (JD)

Suggests using the game "Twenty Questions" to teach the basic processes of classifying, sequencing, and questioning that are fundamental to heuristic procedures. (TJ)

Suggests how simulation games can be used in the classroom to help students understand situations such as politics, war, international relations, and social activities. Explains how to design a simulation game and presents teacher and student instructions for a game entitled "The Battle of Bunker Hill." (DB)

The use of academic games as a tool for the mainstreaming of handicapped children is presented. It is explained that the games should stress cooperation rather than competition. The following four phases of game development are explained: foundation, formulation, experimentation, and evaluation. (PHR)

Analyzes instructional simulation games as systems of communication in which information is transmitted by game designers to players via channels such as scenarios, rules, and other players. Particular attention is given to the process whereby theoretical messages are encoded by game designers into game stories and then are decoded by players back…