This guide is intended to provide Kids and Chemistry (K&C) with a variety of age-appropriate, fun, and safe demonstrations. It features information on planning a large event and includes safety guidelines. Several activities are included under each major topic. Topics include: (1) Acids and Bases; (2) Unsigned; (3) Kool Tie-Dye; (4) Secret…

The border between fact and fiction becomes blurred in legend, stories which themselves have a history, and in their evolving shape they carry the imprint of all the hands that passed them. Through the Internet, students can track the growth of a legend like that of King Arthur, from its emergence in the so-called Dark Ages to its arrival on the…

Lesson plans for teaching elementary students about archaeology are provided in this book. The lessons are designed to encourage students to practice the development of critical thinking skills through synthesizing, analyzing, evaluating, hypothesizing, applying, and deductive and inductive reasoning. Lesson and instructional materials, and 13…

This book provides a selection of 23 lesson and seminar outlines designed to encourage the teaching of health statistics. It concentrates on a core of statistical knowledge judged important for all categories of health trainees, including medical students. Emphasis is placed on statistical principles and methods that can help health personnel make…

This study examined the lesson plans of 67 teacher interns in Kentucky to determine whether their lesson objectives were concentrated to develop higher order thinking in their students. Copies of the first lesson plans submitted by first-year teachers in one large Kentucky school system for a 3-year period (1995-98) were the data source for the…

The purpose of this book is to set forth the elements of English grammar in their relation to thought and the expression of thought. This object has been the guiding principle in the selection of material, in the treatment of forms and constructions, and in the fashioning of the very numerous illustrative exercises. The Introduction explains in…

Consultant discusses health and hygiene education guidelines for elementary school teachers. (GB)

Article lists a series of objectives, background content, activities, references; and examples of measuring devices for use in the classroom and relating to the current energy crisis. (GB)

Teacher gets students involved in choosing and planning their class trips. (GB)

Demonstrates how teachers can bring poetry and students together, stressing those reading skills needed for an understanding of poetry. (RB)

The purpose of this article is to share some of the lesson plans the author found successful, and in which students had the opportunity to evaluate the responsibilities of a manager/supervisor position. (Author/RK)

Author describes ways to give students planned art experiences. (MB)

Presents an inventory of processes of scientific inquiry and describes its use in curriculum development and instructional planning. (AL)

A demonstration and discussion of the use of improvisational dramatics in teaching English. The author provides some ground rules for this method and suggests projects, including the improvisation of scenes from novels. (JB)