Focusing upon Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, these lessons for high school students in U.S. or world history courses deal with what charismatic leadership is, what circumstances and personality factors generate charismatic movements, and the role, results, and dangers of charismatic leadership. (RM)

Adult leisure piano classes and other piano classes differ in many ways. Adult leisure classes require different objectives, textbooks, scheduling, and lesson plans. (Author/AM)

A seven-lesson unit was developed to improve school map knowledge and practical map skills in primary children. The unit activities can also be modified for kindergarten children. (Author/AM)

A sample lesson is given in which students apply mathematics on a hypothetical trip. (MK)

Reviews current foreign language teaching methodology as it concerns the organization of the lesson into phases, and presents an alternate phase-sequence entailing linguistic environment, application, remedial, monitor, and feedback phases. (AM)

Describes the GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) project being developed to provide enhanced access to lesson plans and other Internet-based educational materials through metadata. Highlights include controlled vocabularies; NIDR (networked information discovery and retrieval); the Dublin Core element set; syntax; prototype interfaces; and…

Presents a teaching-learning unit on the thinking skill of analysis that addresses the need of gifted elementary students for qualitative differentiated teaching and learning. Describes which learning content can ensure qualitative differentiated learning for young gifted children and how teacher-learning strategies can be applied to achieve…

These activities invite students to use mathematics to explore interesting facts about famous buildings. The investigation for grades three to four focuses on the SkyDome, a sports arena in Toronto, Canada, and the investigation for grades five to six discusses the Empire State Building in New York City. Includes reproducible student worksheets.…

Gives a lesson plan for the purposeful introduction of leaf-dwelling organisms to streams of the area in order to study the organisms and indicate the relative health of the stream. Includes organism identification charts. (MKR)

Presents an activity that investigates the reflections on a mirror. Focuses on the relationship between a person's height and the mirror's height. (YDS)

Describes an approach to the study of squid that helps students of all ages develop richer ideas about the structure of living things, how living things are adapted to their habitats, and how they interact with other organisms. Highlights include the external and internal features of the squid, squid statements and statistics, and writing…

Presents a timeline for teaching ethics in a 10-day plan, a list of suggested readings and objectives, and also a sample assessment to be done on the final day of the lesson. (PA)

Identified principles that informed the lesson practices of three language teachers to find out why they did what they did in heir lessons. Used teachers lesson practices as a starting point to ensure that the nexus between practitioners' theory and practice was maintained. Sought to provide information about patterns followed by teachers in their…

Presents an activity investigating what happens when a decimal point is in the wrong position or used at all. (YDS)

Uses concrete models to teach conventional algebraic topics with emphasis on connections to other mathematical concepts such as notion of variable, number properties, and geometry. (Contains 10 references.) (YDS)