A week-by-week readiness program for preschool and early primary children. (Editor)

Constructivism emphasizes the learner as an active meaning maker and problem solver. This article reviews constructivism's basic principles, analyzes implications for curriculum work, and explores a constructivist unit-development process. Planners must decide degree of curricular integration, establish unit parameters, identify the problem, draft…

Provides ideas, methods, and techniques to prepare teachers to teach a basic business course. Includes mini-lesson plans. (JOW)

Introduces an activity in which students learn principles of force and motion, systems, and simple machines by exploring the best position of the dogs on the dashboard. Includes a sample lesson plan written in the five instructional models: (1) engagement; (2) exploration; (3) explanation; (4) elaboration; and (5) evaluation. (KHR)

Presents a unit to investigate lemons and experience the real taste of a lemon that includes simple, enjoyable, and inexpensive activities that develop students' observation, prediction, measurement, and inference skills. Students also developed creative arts projects, explored mathematical concepts, and wrote stories about fruit. (NB)

Discusses the role of the teacher in effectively using technology in education based on the Technology Integration Project (TIP). Topics include why use technology; types of computer software; how to select software; software integration strategies; and effectively planning lessons that integrate the chosen software and integration strategy. (LRW)

Describes an activity inspired by the work of Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin involving multilink blocks that helps students develop three-dimensional spatial skills. (YDS)

Describes a prime-number unit that targets middle school students learning about patterns, formulas, and large numbers while participating in a search for the largest prime number. (YDS)

Uses spreadsheets and programmable calculators to investigate limiting behavior in number patterns. (YDS)

Describes a lesson plan using a chambered nautilus to connect geometry and poetry which can be easily adapted to a wide range of levels. (YDS)

Introduces an activity that focuses on Hooke's law to implement and furnish applications of linear equations and graphing in a physical situation. (KHR)

Describes a science lesson that provides students with hands-on experience explaining the principle of buoyancy. (KHR)

Presents a plan for a unit of work on spiders. Suggests initiating class discussion with issues of safety and environmental responsibility that are considered when dealing with the hands-on aspects of topics. (KHR)

Techniques for teaching in the English-as-a-Second/Foreign-Language classroom are included. They focus on planning a conversation class, teaching writing, a lesson plan based on a multiliteracy text, and how a pile of pictures can be used in different ways. (Author/VWL)

Describes a lesson plan from Metro's environmental planning and transportation curriculum called 'Planning for a Livable Future'. Focuses on activities in which students speculate about necessary structure, imagine the cultural and environmental changes, and design and draw structures to meet the needs of the future population. (Author/KHR)