A six-week long intervention that introduced second graders to poetry writing is described in this article, ending in a classroom "poetry cafe" culminating event. This article details the established classroom "writing workshop" structure and environment and the perceptions and observations of how students responded to the instruction. Four poetry…

Most studies on the Stroop effect (unintentional automatic word processing) have been restricted to English speakers using vocal responses. Little is known about this effect with deaf signers. The study compared Stroop task responses among four different samples: deaf participants from a Japanese-language environment and from an English-language…

The course outline has been prepared as a meaningful and practical approach to color. Mastery of Sppeedball Pen Lettering is a prerequisite for entry into the course. The purpose of the course is to teach the student the practices, techniques, and technology necessary to acquire an understanding of the color phenomenon. Consisting of 45 clock…

A study investigated the reciprocal relationship between colors and semantic terms--just as certain semantic terms elicit thoughts of particular colors, so those colors may also elicit their reciprocal semantic terms. Twenty-six students were each shown 18 words: 3 each of bipolar pairs that expressed evaluation, activity, or potency. The students…

The advancement of microcomputer technology has reached the point where color monitors and color computer software are fast becoming the norm in our information society. Color is another channel for communication, and can be used for enhancement of both aesthetic characteristics and productivity. The advantage to the use of color for communication…

This study investigates the relation between cognitive tempo and color responding on the Rorschach. (DEP)

A discussion of the advantages of using color, rather than black-and-white, visual aids. (HB)

The present study was designed to explore age differences in the association of temperatures with specific colors, using as stimuli actual felt temperatures rather than the 'imagined' or ambient temperatures used in other studies. (Author)

The results of two matching-to-sample experiments using color cues in Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) stimulus words with kindergarten through third grade subjects are included in this document. Color cues influenced subjects to match according to first letters. When the first letter of each stimulus word was underlined in red, kindergarten and…

Describes some of the techniques that enable the amateur microscopist to make scientifically revealing photographs, using simple and inexpensive equipment. (GA)

The design for Liberty Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio, won an architectural award in 1975. A brightly colored exterior of urethane-core metal paneling lowered construction costs. (Author/MLF)

A sample of 176 students in grades 2-12 were tested for visual acuity as a function of minimally resolvable red, yellow, green, and blue lines. (Author/JMB)

A naming task using primary and secondary hues and achromatic stimuli was given to 669 preschool children. Results showed age and sex differences in performance and revealed an acquisition order similar to that found in related research and also similar to the proposed evolutionary order across cultures. (Author/JMB)

How college art students made drawings using color is described. The activity helped the students analyze how they drew lines, shadows, and highlights. (RM)