Describes a project that helps children to realize the potential use of fractions and therefore have an incentive to learn them. (RB)

Actual experience is an important part of a child's early education. Outings (though not without problems) offer sensory excitement and assist in completion of the learning cycle. (WY)

Adult-child interaction as child verbalizes his experiences helps child to integrate this new information into his store of knowledge. (NH)

The Maternity Continuity Clinic, conducted by obstetrics faculty, helps students versed in basic physician skills to make an obstetrics-gynecology career choice. (IR)

Suggestions to principals that may help alleviate student reading deficiencies. (RA)

Discusses students' attitudes depicted in the film. (LK)

Describes the Discovery Room at the National Museum of Natural History, a hands-on exhibit area intended to help children and adults learn about their environment. (MP)

Describes recent publications and traveling exhibition services (and related materials) of the Smithsonian Museum. (RH)

Suggests that reading be taught through the social studies and by the experience approach on the elementary school level. An activity is described in which a short story, "Ann's Special Family," provides the focus for developing vocabulary and bringing real-life experiences into focus. (DB)

To insure that the school play was an actual learning experience, third-graders were allowed to make the decisions about sets, costuming, script, and rehearsals. (SJL)

"The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs" by Elliot W. Eisner is reviewed. (JD)

Learning-disabled kids in a farmhouse classroom. (Editor)

A teacher and her students explore the structure of "bubbles" in comic books. Evaluating the use of narration in comics led to the use of narration in books and how characters relate in stories. (Author/RK)

Pictures of rubbings are used to aid young children in creating their own sense of artistic expression. (RK)

Describes an introductory horizontal caving experience for college-age women who were uncomfortable with their bodies, insecure with movement, and unwilling to take big risks. The darkness and quiet of the cave released inhibitions and promoted group cohesion, feelings of intimacy and safety, self-discovery, and self-confidence. (SV)