Suggests various language-game techniques for use at the upper level in the study of poetry. The aim is to stimulate creative language work as against purely receptive learning. Title reconstruction, translation techniques, and fill-in exercises on a sonnet are described. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Stresses the importance of vocabulary development in the social studies and identifies strategies a teacher can use to improve students' reading skills. Strategies and classroom activities include classification and association exercises, wide reading, dictionary and resource book use, and educational games. (Author/DB)

This review of simulation game research and evaluation efforts identifies ten game design variables which are likely to facilitate or impede the development of decision-making skills. (Author)

Every class hour should include conversation as an integral feature or as a ten-minute break. Suggestions are offered, such as guessing games, calling for free association, and detective games with typical questions from police hearings. The teacher should give only minimal help and not constantly correct the students. (IFS/WGA)

Describes a teaching game for drilling on the imperative and the progressive tenses. Some variations of the game are described. (IFS/WGA)

Children learned the language arts concepts of capitalization and punctualization better when playing games, and learning was greatest when active games were played. (MM)

Describes using picture riddles to present situations, problems, or puzzles in graphic form to stimulate student enthusiasm. Included are five picture riddles. (SL)

A classroom "Whiz Quiz," patterned after a television academic game show, was conducted by students in a college German class. The game was conducted entirely in German and sample questions are reproduced here. (CHK)

Reptiles are used as a theme on four worksheets for practicing skills in computation, measurement, comparison, reading, and problem solving. (MNS)

Reports that students frequently confuse meanings of terms and misunderstand function-related concepts. Also, providing mental images of functions is often limited to elementary algebra examples. This article describes a game which can help create conceptual links between the function properties and their various representations. (PK)

Stating that the essential characteristics of citizenship are found in children's natural social interactions, the authors argue that sports should be used in citizenship education to teach rules, roles, consequences, respect, allegiance, winning, losing, and fairness. Teaching suggestions include a list of exemplary sports heroes, illustrative…

Describes the development of an "executive game" which is designed to give students of civil engineering some impression of the wider context of the design of a building project in which the client, architect, contractor, regulatory authorities and community interest groups all play a part. (CW)

Three geometry games are presented. For each game, the game itself and the instructional objectives are discussed. (PK)

Argues that geometry games are potentially effective instructional activities for all grade levels--even high school. Three games and some suggestions for varying the games are presented. (PK)

Describes the probability and statistics component of an experimental mathematical science and communications program. Some of the successes and failures are considered. (PK)