Describes an approach that motivates preservice teachers to become involved in the scientific experience. The approach involves a science demonstration or activity that is done both in and out of class in which students report observations using a Vee diagram. Includes assessment procedures. (DDR)

Describes a series of 14 hands-on, low-cost exercises in plant sciences developed to support biology teaching and maintain student interest. Each exercise includes education objectives, biology background, detailed procedures, and topics to stimulate discussion and critical thinking. (DDR)

An 18-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines provides a rudimentary map to a renewed vision of American higher education by opening classroom doors to real-world experiences in workplaces and communities. Discusses: the series background; inclusiveness and disciplinary legitimacy as guiding principles; variations on a theme;…

Interviews with seven individuals who took part in travel and wilderness experiences confirm that travelers experience reentry tensions similar to those discussed in research on culture shock among Peace Corp workers, overseas employees, and the military. Stages of reentry and the need for outdoor educators to work with the challenges of reentry…

Introduces elastic geometry, or topology, into the elementary classroom through the study of connecting the intuitive, visual, and spatial components of storyknifing as well as other everyday and ethnomathematical activities. (ASK)

Data collected from 72 Hong Kong nursing students before and after a research methods course revealed a significant increase in research orientation and improvements in research knowledge and skills. Positive attitudes toward research at the beginning did not change. (SK)

Describes the concept of action learning and the use of action learning circles in practice, focusing on health care education. Uses evaluation data from participants in action learning circles to show how action learning circles can promote learning from practice. (SLD)

Describes how a team designed an Open University (United Kingdom) distance learning course that explicitly attempted to help students acquire the learning characteristics of mature and capable practitioners in the field. Explains how the learning-to-learn goals of the course included experiential and constructivist perspectives of learning.…

Compassion, healing, and the emphasis on process that are hallmarks of experiential education give it a role in building more compassionate communities and encouraging systemic change for the better. Recommendations for fulfilling this role include creating time to reflect, living both within and beyond "tribe," practicing consciousness…

Uses engineering projects to make students create design prototypes of paper airplanes in order to teach the scientific principle of flight. (ASK)

Describes a partnership involving fifth grade students, preservice teachers, a classroom teacher, and a university faculty member in introducing students to the basic anatomy of a cell using three-dimensional models, analogies, and hands-on/minds-on activities. (ASK)

An outdoor educator and life-long mountain climber describes his experiences with taking risks, and managing them, as a way of life in such areas as career choices, sports, relocation, marriage, political activism, and Outward Bound participation. Benefits include a sharper perspective on what counts, less concern with possessions and more with…

Explored the feelings, attitudes, and perceptions of at- risk adolescent girls from a psychiatric rehabilitation facility following their participation in adventure therapy that involved outdoor experiential activities. Interview data indicated that participants found positive meaning within various activities. The resulting themes were…

Describes the characteristics of the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language in the secondary school classroom. Discusses what empowerment is concerned with in foreign language education. Exemplifies an experiential approach that aims to empower the teaching and learning of EFL through addressing the experience dimension and the…

A Winnipeg (Manitoba) school teacher started a nonprofit job skills training program for at-risk youth. Police donated equipment confiscated from marijuana cultivators to the program, which trains youth aged 15-29 in hydroponics, horticulture, and greenhouse operations. More than 75 percent of its graduates are employed in greenhouse or related…