Presents methods of coordinating poetry writing with mask making, oriental exercises, and painting to give students a sharper insight into the poetic impulse. (MM)

Reviews the Choose Your Own Adventure series designed by Bantam Books to engage children in reading and writing that is exciting and unusual. (FL)

Suggests that questions that help students read actively in any situation can be adapted to fit reading into the history class. Offers seven such questions. (AEA)

Synaesthesia, the phenomenon of intersensory perception, is suggested as a way to design arts experiences which facilitate appreciation for and involvement with music. Teaching ideas are given for grades 1-3 and grades 4-7 on synaesthetic activities melding music and color. (SJL)

The authors suggest that photography teachers can help students develop their language skills, since photography, writing, and speaking all involve the same creative skills of articulating feelings, organizing impressions and experiences, and evaluating creative works. Specific activities correlating photography and language are described. (SJL)

Instructions are given for a class or school-wide art/language arts project in which students learn to evaluate and design book covers. (SJL)

Notes the differences between language for learning and language for informing, pointing out that the latter is overemphasized by teachers. Proposes the increased use of expressive writing in all disciplines. Offers suggestions about staff preparation for using writing more effectively in all disciplines. (RL)

Provides steps for making papier-mache birds, the final activity in a fifth and sixth grade class study project. (RL)

Presents a plan involving routine classroom tasks to integrate mathematics with cooperative learning teams in a second-grade class. Explains the process and describes some of the ways in which the activities are used to provide an opportunity for the team and the student to apply mathematics. Concludes that cooperative learning has many merits.…

Presents a potpourri of environmental education activities for grades K-12. Activities are grouped according to the subject areas of science, social studies, mathematics, language arts, and fine arts. (AIM)

Presents a trigonometry problem concerning control of the entry of sunlight through a window. (ASK)

Understanding situated learning requires bridging sociocultural and cognitive theories. The reconciliation of cognitive and sociocultural theories provides a basis for accounting for ways situations influence the coconstruction of knowledge. The proposed framework accounts for the complementarily of the two perspectives and shows how arrangements…

Describes the Portal School Project and the way in which it involves preservice teachers in early in-classroom teaching experiences. Presents a qualitative research study that illuminates the challenges associated with preparing preservice teachers to accept responsibility for devising and presenting lessons that link reading and writing with…

Presents a unit to investigate lemons and experience the real taste of a lemon that includes simple, enjoyable, and inexpensive activities that develop students' observation, prediction, measurement, and inference skills. Students also developed creative arts projects, explored mathematical concepts, and wrote stories about fruit. (NB)

Discusses how nature can illustrate mathematical structures and concepts in the classroom. For example, the upper surface of a typical leaf structure illustrates the notion of tessellating with polygons. Also lists classroom applications and hands-on activities such as growing crystals to investigate the natural forms of polyhedra and measuring…