Math manipulatives that are made from inexpensive, common items help students understand basic mathematics concepts. Learning activities using Cheerios, jellybeans, and clay as teaching materials are suggested. (DF)

Examines the processes involved in resource based learning, especially the availability of resources, school structure, and teacher role. (HOD)

Reviews Logo programming language's developmental history, including Papert's vision, creation of LISP, and evolution of Logo from LISP; discusses reasons for Logo not becoming a commonplace programming language; describes Logo program design and its utility for serious programmers; and lists sources of further information on Logo. (MBR)

How to use elementary school children as curators of a classroom museum is described. The teacher decides the concept or unit to be showcased in the museum. As curators students are responsible for many tasks including writing descriptive paragraphs for the artifacts and arranging the artifact display. (RM)

Samara (winged seeds from maple and ash trees) can be used for open-ended inquiry or a series of directed science activities. Attributes, observations/inferences, drawing, motion, floating, seed structure, creative design, and measurement are some of the suggestions for classroom use of these seeds. (DH)

School-business partnerships are beneficial to both schools and businesses. Students are able to familiarize themselves with business operations, and businesses develop a better sense of community. This article discusses the pros and cons of business-school involvement, and suggests ideas for developing such a relationship. (DF)

Teachers can integrate computer use with regular classroom activities to motivate children and to help build self-esteem. Through creative teaching, the computerized classroom becomes a place where children develop problem-solving skills and learn to work together. (DF)

Children should be prepared to use all five senses when experiencing the environment. Suggestions are offered for helping stimulate children to observe, investigate, and discover their world. (DF)

Discusses several levels of mystery fiction for children and explains how these narratives extend and shape the literary reading habits of the young. (HOD)

A lecture method was compared with a method based on questioning sequences that guided students to discover mathematical principles. Students with high levels of mathematics anxiety had significantly lower achievement. Students with high anxiety benefited more from the expository approach; those with low anxiety benefited more from the discovery…

This article describes an archeological dig planned for and executed by a class of 10 and 11-year-old children. The structuring of other subjects around the dig, and follow up activities are reviewed. (SB)

Seeks to pin-point an assumption that underlies a great deal of current educational theory. The assumption is that knowledge is an indivisible whole, that distinctions made between different school subjects are thus arbitrary, and that one learning strategy--that of "discovery"--exists, trainable upon any enquiries and universally applicable once…

This article discusses the use of concrete materials as conceptual models which serve as references for later learning of algorithms. (DT)

When is a gifted child ready for the discovery of a new idea? When is this child ready for independent searching and inquiry? Sometimes in many traditional educational settings, it seems as if a student must wait until graduate school before he is allowed to carry out independent inquiry. At the turn of this century, there is more to learn and…

This middle school unit of study on archaeology is designed so that students become part of the process of historical discovery. The unit aims to bring history alive by revealing parallels between everyday life in ancient times and everyday life today. Students are asked to investigate and interpret artifacts from their own lives and homes.…