Action learning has a great potential for helping the adolescent grow to adulthood, but maximizing its benefits and minimizing its drawbacks requires a redefinition of high school curriculum by an ongoing partnership of school personnel, students, parents, and community representatives. (Author/SJL)

Describes an activity-centered approach for an elementary language arts project with a careers theme. It begins with exercises in which students identify different kinds of jobs and discuss and practice techniques of interviewing and culminates in the study of a specific job area--advertising. All activities emphasize the importance of subject…

This article aims to stimulate an interchange of ideas on teaching through a discussion of experiential learning as a necessary, but not sufficient, component of the preprofessional student's education and a description of the semester programs of USC's School of Public Administration as a tool for incorporating experimental education into a…

Answers to a list of twenty geometry-related questions are hidden in a matrix of letters. The answers can be read in eight different directions: vertically, horizontally, on both diagonals, forward, and backward. (MN)

The author presents several activities from a project designed to give primary school children a broad picture of perspective and direction, and to give practice in reasoning, counting, and systematic work. (MN)

The rationale for using a camping situation in which children learn and do mathematics is discussed. (DT)

A prototype of a college-level adult-centered environmental education program is described whose target population is citizens serving as volunteers in local planning boards, conservation commissions, and environmental organizations. The model involves enrolling experience citizens in courses with graduate students as community organization…

Three activities which provide experience in writing and solving original story problems are described. (JT)

Fifth graders manage a booming jewelry business with a $50 bank loan, basic skills and enthusiasm. (Editor)

In describing a learning-by-teaching program in home economics which places the student in a teaching role, four example situations are described, e.g., junior high students teaching elementary level students. Suggestions as to what to teach, how to obtain an audience, how to prepare students to teach, and how to evaluate the experience are also…

Classroom activities for the study of linear mass, and volume measurement, conversion of units, and estimation using the metric system are given. (MN)

The results of research on the effects of a non-directive, hands-on approach to teaching science are presented. The research seems to show that students can learn and can function responsibly in an unstructured, hands-on classroom. (MDR)

Teaching by learning activities is contrasted with teaching by objectives. Four types of learning activities are identified. (JT)

The Center for Resourceful Living at North Adams State College was developed to teach students the skills that will allow them to become more self-sufficient providing their food, energy, and shelter needs, as well as values that will serve as guides in developing a satisfying, healthy and meaningful life. (NQ)