Gives illustrations for experiences designed to help intermediate (grade 6) children learn to follow directions. Activities, in the form of five stations contained in one classroom, were developed with each activity focused on a different approach to problem solving and observation. (PEB)

This paper describes one attempt to promote and extend the use of the computer to enhance instruction in the social studies at the secondary level, through simulation and data-base inquiry. (Author)

The author uses a visit to a medieval site by elementary school students as an example of how to approach field trips for development of historical techniques. (DE)

The classification of inquiry skills into three subdivisions of data collection, data organization, and data use is proposed as a means of allowing teachers to be more aware of the reason for teaching skills. The author questions whether recently developed science programs encourage children in decision making. (EB)

Describes activities dealing with the surface tension of water designed to capture interest and raise questions in students. (BR)

Suggests that a liberal arts education can be used to recognize and stimulate the intrinsic characteristics of students so that they will become involved in their own education, realize the need to be well trained, and learn to work with others toward solutions to basic problems, all of which produces good teachers. (BR)

Inquiry teaching forces students to actively engage in articulating theories and principles that are critical to understanding a domain. Inquiry teachers have three distinct goals: (1) to help students construct a given theory or set of principles; (2) to help students construct novel theories or principles; and (3) to teach students how to pose…

Elaborates on remarks that occurred during a panel discussion on "Secondary Science Teacher Education: Where are We Going?" Remarks relate to the gap between the practitioners of education (the secondary school teachers) and the scholar (the collegiate science educator). (GS)

An elementary teaching unit on the Hutterites is criticized for its teaching strategies and ethnocentrism. (DE)

The purpose of this paper is to refocus and expand the notion of the integration of reading, particularly literature, and social studies. The premise is that reading as a tool of inquiry can be used in the social studies classroom to develop students' abilities to inquire about social issues in the social studies. Inquiry is interpreted to include…

This document presents the rationale for laboratory work, which is alleged to be ritualistic in many schools and colleges. The rationale is that laboratories are a fertile source of memory structures called episodes, which would enhance the comprehension of abstract subject matter when associated with it. Specific and generalized episodes are…

The approaches and methods of teaching and learning social studies are examined. Fundamental study skills are emphasized: effective questioning techniques, data gathering, ability to recognize relationships in terms of time and space, and ability to recognize facts, opinions, and propaganda. To develop these skills it is recommended that priority…