The article asserts that setting minimal requirements for all grades and drawing appropriate lesson guides (some models of which are provided) is a more meaningful and humanistic approach to learning than the setting of rigid behavioral objectives. (Author/JB)

Lists the ways that children benefit from movement and dance activities and presents a lesson plan. (SJL)

A lesson plan is presented for dealing with the concept of loss and its relationship to dying, death, and bereavement. (MM)

Presents a lesson plan for showing children how to operate a TRS-80 Color Computer. (SJL)

Presented is a four-lesson unit for teaching intermediate grade pupils how to outline. (SJL)

In rural Goldsboro, North Carolina, most young students have little awareness of art and its importance in their lives. The author designed a 45-minute lesson for grades K-4 which helps children to recognize and appreciate artworks that exist around them. (SJL)

Describes how the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT), a large-scale digital library project, can be used to assist college instructors in designing lessons. Examines two instructional aspects of digital libraries: personalized knowledge bases (the knowledge of any domain), and structured views of the knowledge base (a subset of the…

Describes a process for teaching students to create a theatrical character based on a picture, an animal, a color, etc. Provides ways for students to define the internal and external qualities of the character, and offers exercises such as "pantomime based on a picture" and "using animal image." (PRA)

Describes ways to use the Internet in marketing education and provides a sample lesson plan for Internet activities. (SK)

Discusses how snack time can be used for mathematical activities. Presents several activities that can be used at snack time. (Author/MM)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of professional development on the knowledge and classroom practices of teachers of science in kindergarten through Grade 5. These teachers, trained to be generalists in the content areas, were strongly prepared in pedagogical practices, reading skills, basic language arts, and mathematics…

Critiquing and adapting curriculum materials are essential teaching practices but challenging for many preservice teachers. This study explores the use of educative curriculum materials--materials intended to support both teacher and student learning--to help preservice elementary teachers develop their pedagogical design capacity for critiquing…

This educator guide is organized into seven chapters: (1) Overview; (2) The Design Challenge; (3) Connections to National Curriculum Standards; (4) Preparing to Teach; (5) Classroom Sessions; (6) Opportunities for Extension; and (7) Teacher Resources. Chapter 1 provides information about Environmental Control and Life Support Systems used on NASA…

Assessing the language development of bilingual children can be a challenge--too often, children in the complex process of learning both Spanish and English are under- or over-diagnosed with language disorders. SLPs can change that with "SALT 2010 Bilingual S/E Version" for grades K-3, the first tool to comprehensively assess children's language…