Uses the book "Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! A Mathematical Story" to help children differentiate between the mathematical concepts of perimeter and area. (KHR)

Explores the integration of the practical and liberal arts in the community college. Promoting liberal education not only aids the transfer of community college students to baccalaureate institutions, it also prepares community college graduates for citizenship. (SLD)

Describes and differentiates the main types of integrated language and content instruction, presents arguments in favor of it, discusses some of the promising materials and programs currently in place or under development, and identifies priorities for the 1990s. (40 references) (GLR)

Notes that effective planning is essential if films and videotapes are to enhance classroom instruction. Suggests guidelines for their use, including: (1) how films and videotapes can be effective; (2) pre-lesson, presentation, post-lesson and enrichment activities; and (3) selection, preparation, and presentation techniques. (NH)

Describes a lesson designed to teach a computer programming construct, the "if-then" statement, and to help students gain insight into computing concepts, stimulate students' creativity, and develop their higher order thinking skills. (JKP)

Discusses the use of computer-based telecommunications through the Internet and commercial online services to bring immediacy and individualization to the school curriculum. Topics include integrating telecommunications into the curriculum, basic Internet tools, e-mail, the World Wide Web, and resources on the Internet for curriculum planning.…

Baltimore Learning Network is a community-based coalition embracing the aquarium, science center, and zoo; museums; libraries; government agencies; voluntary organizations; and individuals. The network's aim is identifying interests and talents in young people and nurturing them for lifelong learning. The network plans to integrate schoolwork and…

Discusses the integration of various learning activities in preschool children's study of trees. Activities include taking field trips to wooded areas, exploring the ways people use wood, studying one particular tree, and doing art projects. (BC)

Presents a set of activities in which students explore how complex models can be generated using a small and simple set of rules. (ASK)

Explores some current concepts of curriculum integration, and proposes some alternatives to the conceptual violence often done in the name of curriculum integration. What is lost in many efforts in curriculum integration is the "topography" of any particular thing. Curriculum integration should rely on relationships that already exist and not…

Describes a field-tested interdisciplinary unit activity that involves collecting data on honeybees. Students gain hands-on experience with collecting, transforming, and analyzing data in this activity by using actual techniques employed by entomologists, the scientists who study insects. (ASK)

Describes a fifth-grade student solving the "Food for Thought" problem featured in the February 1998 issue. (ASK)

Describes a classroom activity that explores the strength of spaghetti. Provides students an opportunity to explore a common substance in a scientific way; measure the strength of various sizes and amounts of spaghetti; gather, record, and translate quantitative data; use calculators; and present data. (YDS)

Shares experiences with a series of lessons for fourth and fifth grade students in the elementary school and sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at the middle school with the aim of showing ways in which architects use mathematics. Asks students to become architects and design buildings using geometrical shapes. (ASK)