This book contains information and activities to help make the study of rainforests an exciting exploration for teachers and students. Students explore the animals, plants, and geography of the rainforest by completing hands-on activities from various disciplines. This book contains five units: (1) "Living Layers"; (2) "Animals, Animals, Animals";…

This manual is designed for music and classroom teachers of children from infancy to age eight. All musical experiences lead to learning, from the simplest rhythmic experiences of being rocked to sleep to the more sophisticated challenge of playing one rhythmic pattern while singing another. When musical experiences are related to the…

This book offers integrated activities in which students explore words and, at the same time, develop their language arts and thinking skills. The book states that this way teachers can pay more attention to word study, without sacrificing other parts of the English curriculum and without resorting to word lists and memorization. In the first…

Presents some instances of the implications of chemistry which illustrate both its scientific and humanistic nature. Indicates that chemistry can be used as a bridge to span the artificially created chasm between Snow's two cultures and thus to demonstrate the fundamental unity of all knowledge. (CC)

Author suggests activities that enable children to become actively involved on an individual basis within a regular classroom. (Author/CB)

An introductory course is designed with relevance for directly instilling into the students a sense of the unity and coherence of chemical ideas. The sequence also has the flavor'' of a research project. (DF)

Article describes the coordinated program of London's Holland Park School camera club and photography course, including the evening classes for adults. Links with the art, technical and science departments are planned. Teachers are encouraged to use the photography department equipment after school hours. (PD)

Working with a sample of third-grade students, researchers compared two sentence-modeling curricula: one focusing exclusively on writing and the other, the Integrated Sentence-Modeling Curriculum (ISMC), combining language arts areas. Designed for elementary school students, the ISMC introduces children to complex syntactic structures by involving…

Through environmental education, educators can integrate all subject matter into the story of our struggle to adapt to a world we are forever transforming. (Author)

Describes a new journalism course offered at Fordham University (New York) that uses four devices: scene-by-scene construction, realistic dialog, third-person point of view, and symbolic recording of entire events. (HOD)

Describes a writing program for sixth grade remedial students that was a reading program as well. Includes "how to" guidelines for successful process-conference instruction. (FL)

Describes the use of summary writing as a combined project for college reading and writing courses for basic skills students. Includes student samples and handouts. (HTH)