Presents a teaching-learning unit on the thinking skill of analysis that addresses the need of gifted elementary students for qualitative differentiated teaching and learning. Describes which learning content can ensure qualitative differentiated learning for young gifted children and how teacher-learning strategies can be applied to achieve…

These activities invite students to use mathematics to explore interesting facts about famous buildings. The investigation for grades three to four focuses on the SkyDome, a sports arena in Toronto, Canada, and the investigation for grades five to six discusses the Empire State Building in New York City. Includes reproducible student worksheets.…

Gives a lesson plan for the purposeful introduction of leaf-dwelling organisms to streams of the area in order to study the organisms and indicate the relative health of the stream. Includes organism identification charts. (MKR)

Presents an activity that investigates the reflections on a mirror. Focuses on the relationship between a person's height and the mirror's height. (YDS)

Describes an approach to the study of squid that helps students of all ages develop richer ideas about the structure of living things, how living things are adapted to their habitats, and how they interact with other organisms. Highlights include the external and internal features of the squid, squid statements and statistics, and writing…

Presents a timeline for teaching ethics in a 10-day plan, a list of suggested readings and objectives, and also a sample assessment to be done on the final day of the lesson. (PA)

Identified principles that informed the lesson practices of three language teachers to find out why they did what they did in heir lessons. Used teachers lesson practices as a starting point to ensure that the nexus between practitioners' theory and practice was maintained. Sought to provide information about patterns followed by teachers in their…

Presents an activity investigating what happens when a decimal point is in the wrong position or used at all. (YDS)

Uses concrete models to teach conventional algebraic topics with emphasis on connections to other mathematical concepts such as notion of variable, number properties, and geometry. (Contains 10 references.) (YDS)

Describes the use of paper folding to create a rich environment for discussing algebraic concepts. Explores the effect that changing the dimensions of two-dimensional objects has on the volume of related three-dimensional objects. (Contains 13 references.) (YDS)

Introduces an undergraduate course offered to junior and senior students on tracking and stalking in the wild. Finds and identifies fresh tracks of species selected by students as the ultimate goal of the course. (YDS)

Offers some suggestions as to how science fiction, especially television science fiction programs such as "Star Trek" and "Star Wars", can be drawn into physics lessons to illuminate some interesting issues. (Author/KHR)

Describes an integrated unit on bats and specifically addresses the National Science Education Standards. (Author/KHR)

Findings are reported from a study which described preactive thought processes of preservice elementary classroom teachers (N=30), as they planned a health lesson, and their conceptions of teaching success or failure during the lesson. Most of the teachers defined success in terms of student involvement and enjoyment rather than achievement. (IAH)

Findings are reported from a study which investigated planning strategies employed by effective elementary physical education specialists. Written year-long, unit, and lesson plans were analyzed, and the degree of adherence to these plans was examined. Differences in planning strategies and adherence to written plans emerged among beginning,…