Describes a study of the use of an integrated communication arts instructional strategy to facilitate comprehension in a high school history course indicating that subjects who wrote following brainstorming activities and text readings generated higher quality ideas and synthesized acquired information better than the groups that did not write.…

Describes an approach taken in a general education geology course that incorporates a series of research papers from the geologic literature. Reviews criteria for selecting the papers and provides examples of reading assignments. (ML)

Explores the implications of envisioning theater and drama in education as a "laboratory for learning," citing that Theatre-In-Education fits the laboratory model by integrating formal theater as aesthetic experience with informal drama as a learning medium. (MM)

Discusses ways of relating students' personal experiences to complex modern literature such as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist" and Eliot's "The Wasteland" so that they can better understand and relate to these texts. Also discusses the use of paintings to help students see the literature and then analyze it. (SRT)

Uses Yeats's poem "Father and Child" to help high school students understand the technical elements that go into a poem and to help English methods students understand what is meant by an integrated lesson in language, literature, and composition. (HTH)

Proposes the integration of microforms with government publications as a logical administrative home for these two collections because of similarities in format, type of reference service and bibliographic access, and subject content. Staffing, level of service, equipment, and location and arrangement of the area for optimal public service are…

Explains how the muscle and bone arrangement of the human body can be used in teaching the principles of simple machines. Presents an activity that investigates the lever system of the forearm. Includes background information on levers and suggests questions for classroom discussion. (ML)

Describes a four-semester course in technical communication that culminates in a student project for which students work in teams aided by faculty managers to define a project, learn about it on their own, gather evidence, choose the best solution, and defend their choices to an outside client. (SRT)

Describes the Language Resources for Management major offered by Ferrum College. Explains how the major emphasizes traditional values that are congruent with current economic and social realities. (EL)

Reviews materials from the ERIC system and other sources on providing natural learning situations in which reading, writing, speaking, and listening can be developed together for real purposes and real audiences in the self-contained elementary classroom. (HTH)

Describes experiences in planning and conducting a workshop that combined the teaching of writing, research, and basic photography skills. (EL)

Presents a case for incorporating humanities instruction into the study of literature and suggests activities by which teachers can go beyond literary devices in individual works to encompass the humanistic components of the cultures that produced them. (EL)

Thoroughly discusses teaching strategies for a literature packet entitled "Personality Sketch." (DF)

Describes a one-day workshop in which teachers examined how science and art activities can be integrated in the classroom. Emphasis is on the activities, which can be used by elementary school children. (JN)

Describes a writing course that involves students in such experiences as remodeling a house, writing a fiction story for a "Redbook" editor, and studying Hopi Indians. (EL)