Outlines a lesson on the Fibonacci and Lucas sequences that captures student interest by presenting the opportunity for computation practice, mental mathematics, and proof for algebra students. Discusses an extension for solving simultaneous equations. (YDS)

Presents classroom activities in which measurements of various components from the legend of Paul Bunyan are used to focus on scale factors in distance, area, and volume. (YDS)

Describes a two-week unit based on calendars and births designed to be used in January at the start of each new year. (YDS)

Draws on recent events in Major League Baseball to illustrate the relationship between experimental and theoretical probability. (Author)

Describes a project in which students explore the Inka data recording system of knotted cords called quipus to reinforce understanding of place value. (YDS)

Teacher educator returns to eighth-grade classroom. Despite student learning, realizes that something is missing from lesson plans: no relationship with the students. Makes conscious effort to improve relationship. Finds classroom teaching experience provides best education as teacher educator. Recommends that all teacher educators return to the…

Two sample lessons are presented to help elementary-school children with behavior disorders understand friendship relationships. Hypothetical student relations are diagrammed, and class discussions deal with the reasons for students' popularity and unpopularity and the acceptability or unacceptability of the reasons. (JDD)

Identifies the resources available through the National Archives, including: learning packages providing primary source documents for use by students; columns in "Social Education," which reproduce one document, offer historical background, and suggest learning activities; and summer workshops on instructional uses of primary sources.…

Presents a case study classroom exercise using the theme of price/non-price competition and based on a poster advertisement of the Eurotunnel. Recommends this exercise for use with fourth year General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Suggests the follow-up activities of class discussion and designing an advertising campaign. (KO)

Describes a reading comprehension strategy--Prepare, Structure, Read, and Think (PSRT)--designed for subject area lessons that use expository textbooks. Presents a generic guide for planning and conducting a lesson based on PSRT. (MM)

Explains how teachers may go about planning interdisciplinary units that center on issues concerning the environment. Discusses how to organize units, where to find sources and ideas, and how to negotiate the interdisciplinary terrain. (TB)

Presents five lessons designed to use art to inspire students to write. Notes that students can gain a certain focus from art but that they can also veer toward writing shapeless, rambling stories that fail to create pictures in the reader's mind. (RS)

Discusses the elements of reading instruction which are necessary for success with students who have not benefited from indirect or implicit instruction. Demonstrates how characteristics of effective instruction can be integrated into reading instruction by offering a sample lesson on reading fluency. (RS)

Offers a plan for teaching the strategies and procedures of preparing oral presentations over two class sessions, using a combination of lectures, videos, discussions, self-assessments, simulations, and peer evaluations. (SR)

Describes a two-day class plan in which students learn about performance and production aspects of a Shakespearean play and become sensitive to the multiple readings that can exist in a text. (SR)