When is a gifted child ready for the discovery of a new idea? When is this child ready for independent searching and inquiry? Sometimes in many traditional educational settings, it seems as if a student must wait until graduate school before he is allowed to carry out independent inquiry. At the turn of this century, there is more to learn and…

This middle school unit of study on archaeology is designed so that students become part of the process of historical discovery. The unit aims to bring history alive by revealing parallels between everyday life in ancient times and everyday life today. Students are asked to investigate and interpret artifacts from their own lives and homes.…

The intent of this paper is to present a case study in discovery learning using a chronological, narrative history book. (Author)

Author urged music educators to develop principles of notation, and let children discover symbols on their own, eventually becoming readers of traditional music notation. (Author/RK)

Describes a practicum course using videotape for artistic and self-discovery purposes. (CH)

Forty seventh-grade students, grouped by ability and instructed by intermediate or maximal guidance with or without concrete aids, were given post and retention tests. Low-ability students using aids achieved higher than those taught without aids. Intermediate-guidance groups had higher mean transfer scores when using aids, with no differences…

To discover a generalization from a pattern of data, students need to know how to analyze the data. This is a description of how high school students can find a formula to predict the number of spherical fruits in a piling by using differences. (JP)

Cautions against rush to import British informal-style classrooms asserting that open education can't be brought about by mandate, questionable motivations, or by a quick, band-aid approach. More long-range planning and better evaluation methods are urged. (ST)

A study which reflects how a class of disadvantaged, inner city high school students with poor reading ability achieved high quality academic learning in a world geography class through various reading media is discussed and summarized. (SM)

Three sample lessons for elementary grades are designed to help make children aware that one of the major features of modern society is its increasing interdependence. Each lesson focuses upon the concept of systems and subsystems in society. (SM)

Patterns in an array of numerals are analyzed; suggestions are given for guided discovery activities leading to a discussion of the properties of identity, closure, commutativity, inverses, and associativity. (DT)

The main concern of this article is to describe some of the aspects or facets of discovery learning situations exemplified by the models and found in curriculum development projects. (Author)

Music teachers can make learning about music more rewarding and effective by improving the setting for conceptual development. The choral laboratory is one important step in music education and a positive method for learning music concepts. (RK)

Inquiry-discovery learning of processes involved in determining transportation patterns form the core of this teaching model. Promotes understanding of human behavior and geographic change and is sufficiently general for use at several teaching levels. (Author/JB)