Two experiments examined the effects of different models of exploration questioning on kindergarteners' associative fluency, or ability to verbalize novel uses for conventional stimuli. In the first experiment, five models of exploration questioning were compared for their ability to facilitate associative fluency with respect to an object…

This paper suggests a technique for the development, collection, and organization of materials that will aid learning through the use of the senses by building an environmental sense box. England is used as an example of a place that provides many sensory experiences which can be duplicated in such a box. The box can be made from a cardboard…

Describes the science program that has been developed in Sierra Leone elementary schools over the past eight years. (JR)

The learning of mathematics is presented as a cognitive process rather than as a behavioristic one. A generative model of mathematics learning is described. Learning with understanding can occur with discovery or reception treatments. Relevant empirical research is discussed and implications for teaching mathematics as a generative process are…

This publication is designed for educators, researchers, and students in both school and university audiences. In an effort to give a more in-depth analysis of the Inquiry Type Science Curricula, this publication defines its terms, describes goals and objectives of modern science curricula, gives a history of, reasons for, and description of…

Culmination of a 3 week social studies unit on U.S. pioneers and westward expansion involved a weekend trip by wagon train for 5th graders in South Windsor, Connecticut. (JC)

Suggested are investigations for junior and senior high school students that may lead to discoveries and at the same time provide a variety of practice in computing with fractions. (JP)

A formula comparable to Pick's formula for area of a polygonal region on a geoboard is presented for the situation in which the standard unit is an equilateral triangle instead of a square. (JP)

Describes a laboratory course in Physical Geology designed to encourage students to ask their own questions and to develop and test their own answers. The essence of this approach lies in providing a minimum of preconditioning before the exercises. (MLH)

The learning discovery of youngsters is a do-it-yourself teaching method for clerical, administrative, and accountant trainees at the Bankside House headquarters of the Central Electricity Generating Board's South Eastern Region, London. (Author)

Condensed from "The Instructor, Volume 78 (December 1968), 64-65.