One portion reprinted from "Simulation Games for the Social Studies Classroom (Foreign Policy Association, 1968), pp. 49-52.

This manual contains learning activities to aid secondary teachers in clarifying and enriching the Scholastic materials "Living Law." The format of the manual includes a brief overview, background information, teacher instructions, and a description of each activity. Case studies, simulations, and role-playing activities are provided. Topics…

ROLE-PLAYING, THE FLEXIBLE ACTING OUT OF VARIOUS TYPES OF PROBLEMS IN A PERMISSIVE GROUP ATMOSPHERE, WAS AIMED AT DEVELOPING A FULL, INNER FEELING ABOUT A SITUATION FROM ACTING OUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE ACTUALLY FELT IN THE SITUATION. ROLE-PLAYING WAS ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR LOW-INCOME GROUPS BECAUSE THEY EXPRESS THEMSELVES MORE READILY WHEN REACTING TO…

GENERAL SEMANTICS CAN BE TAUGHT TO YOUNG CHILDREN BY EMPLOYING EXPERIMENTATION, ROLE PLAYING, AND ACTIVE DISCUSSION OF PERSONAL REACTIONS. THE CHILDREN ARE SHOWN HOW VERBAL EXPRESSIONS CAN BE USED TO REFLECT ACCURACY OR DISTORTION IN WHAT IS DESIRED TO BE EXPRESSED. CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES EMPHASIZED ARE--(1) THE WORLD CONSISTS OF PROCESSES…

This learning module instruction booklet provides guidelines for the use of a kit designed to teach students nondiscriminatory social attitudes and to heighten general awareness of cultural differences. Intended for use with a film followed by group discussion, the kit provides samples of attitude pretest and an attitude posttest related to the…

This guide to teaching materials and techniques for undereducated English speaking adults consists of the following--(1) introductory remarks on student characteristics, student placement, and development of a proper classroom atmosphere, (2) procedures and materials for beginning classes, (3) books and aids for intermediate and advanced students,…

This high school environmental guide uses the Students Toward Environmental Participation (S.T.E.P.) approach. Activities are designed to develop an awareness of the purpose, interrelationship, and wholeness of the earth through activities, games and role-playing. Sample activities include: trust walk, scavenger hunt, nature collage, and alphabet…

This experiment tested Piaget's hypothesis that peer interaction plays a crucial role in the reduction of childhood egocentrism. A sample of 46 second graders from a middle-class suburban public school were given a sociometric measure of popularity. Four tasks which assessed spatial, communicative, and role-taking egocentrism were then performed…

The teaching module is part of a set of materials designed to provide educators with activities infusing career education concepts into existing curriculum for the K-6 grade level. Building on the foundation laid in the teaching module dealing with personal interests and interpersonal relationships on the K-3 grade level, this module focuses on…

Analyzed were the effectiveness of three types of attitude change techniques for changing the attitude of prospective elementary school teachers toward science. A sample of 219 prospective elementary teachers was administered a pretest to measure selected aspects of attitudes toward science. The subjects were assigned to one of four treatment…

Language differences peculiar to the disadvantaged are discussed as they relate to reading. Linguistic differences, including the interdependence among language, operant feedback, thought, and experience, and the power of these to reconstruct and reassociate through reading constitute one barrier. Another is the effects of language on the total…

This study asked whether structured role playing and attendant experiences in extracurricular play productions were predictably associated with attitude changes in high school students. The major hypothesis was that students who participated in plays would become more open-minded and flexible and would show greater change toward more positive…

This is the trainer's manual for the last component of the Instructional Staff Development (ISD) program. For this last component it is reported that the focus is on student-directed instruction. (In the first five components, focus was on teacher, then self, then pupil-directed instruction.) The predominant emphasis is practice sessions, which…

In this socio-drama the extension educator had invited the sociologist for a second meeting to explore with the latter sociological concepts relevant to the county extension agent's job. The extension educator presented to the sociologist several important behaviors of the county agent as discovered through research using the critical incident…

This study investigated the relationship among psychopathology, intelligence and the simulation of psychopathological roles. (Author)