This paper suggests guidelines for elementary school field trips which would combine a traditional approach to exploring a home community with emphasis on social awareness. Reference is made to techniques for recording the trip on film and to the advantages of the field trip technique. (JH)

In January 1976, Colgate University offered its first Winter Wilderness Survival Program in conjunction with the North American Wilderness Survival School (NAWSS). This post-program evaluation summarizes background of the three-week program, with attention to the leadership, program aims, how the course was publicized, and how it developed month…

Examples of activities involving geometric construction are suggested for discovery-oriented instruction. (SD)

Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan conducts monthly workshops on the metric system as part of its community education programs. The goals, instructional approaches, and content of these workshops are described. (SD)

The nature of measurement, the standard measurement concepts are discussed in terms of children's preconceptions and activities for building measurement concepts through primary school instruction. A broad range of activities including counting, computation, calibration, and relating measure to size is presented. The metric system is briefly…

Illustrates the content, process, and group dynamics of Activity Group Guidance. Describes and evaluates a comprehensive Activity Group Guidance program. Gives specific suggestions to counselors who wish to start Activity Groups. (Author)

The relationship between area and perimeter is presented through a series of laboratory-type activities and demonstrations. (SD)

Members of a Teachers Center used research literature to generate ideas for a classroom activity, then did the activity in order to test it. The activity described here involved hypothesizing rules defining sequences of three numbers. (SD)

The philosophical roots of the concept of lifelong learning are considered in relation to the views of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They pioneered in their analyses of intellectual development and in the importance of the use of the mind throughout the life span. Plato and Aristotle added metaphysical arguments to support their systems of…

Noting that while individuals need opportunities to develop cognitive and symbolic understanding of communication principles and skills, this paper argues that they also need to develop an experiential understanding in order to use those principles and skills in building and enhancing relationships. To accomplish this, the paper offers a…

Educators sometimes fail to adequately bring about school community collaboration. To do so, cooperative policy adjustments must be made, such as the supportive network created in the Dallas "Adopt-a-School" Program. Too, implementation adjustments must be made in the development of an action-learning program such as the flexible…

This design for an experiential exercise is comprised of three key characters-- the instructor, the facilitator, and the learner--whose interactions affect the learner. This interaction takes place within the dimensions of a facility having a variety of technical advantages, such as videotape recording and other equipment, or simply in a…

At Michigan State University, a "hands on" approach to the advertising campaigns course has proven successful. The course is limited to 25 students who work in groups of five to develop and prepare an advertising campaign for a client who has agreed to provide information and funds for the course and who in return will get a plans book…

The emotional and paraconscious characteristics of an adult who is faced with the need to learn to read make the use of the suggestopedic instructional method, which operates below the level of consciousness, attractive. Among learner characteristics to which suggestopedia can be directly applied are integrative and instrumental motivation, and…