Describes some ideas for using a phone directory for teaching alphabetical order, vocabulary, mathematics, geography, critical thinking, and problem solving. (Author/RK)

This book is a year-long program of daily exercises in problem solving for 2nd and 3rd grade students that presents 144 lessons, each with seven problems. The problems cover number sense, computation, measurements, geometry, problem solving, and patterns. The material is presented in a sequential fashion with concepts repeated and expanded, and…

In Anchorage, Alaska, resource teachers in the Classroom Music Program trained 450 elementary teachers to handle music in their own classrooms by means of packet-type lesson formats, a Music Jamboree cycle, and an assembly that reinforces previous teaching. (AM)

The authors describe a process, a social integration program, for promoting social development of autistic children which brings normal peers (second and third graders) to the special setting. Steps for planning the play session are given and guidelines for play session structure are offered. (SBH)

Describes some innovative public relations practices developed by Pennsylvania elementary schools. (SJL)

The article describes the Fairview/Eastview Gifted Biophysical Environmental Studies Program, an outdoor education program for third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade gifted students. (SBH)

Discusses how oral history can motivate elementary students in the social studies. Suggests oral history learning activities and procedures to help students recreate events from the past. (CK)

Describes the Arizona Consortium for Individualized Learning (ACIL) program, which has been implemented in 52 Arizona schools in grades K-6. (JG)

Poems, activities and your kids' own ideas can produce a play that is truly their own. (Editor)

There is a connection between personal and social violence. Described is a project which made elementary children aware of this connection. Children were involved in discussions that focused on their personal experiences and asked to express their feelings in pictures. (RM)

The Teaching-Learning Communities project has "apprenticed" hundreds of children to 125 "grandpersons" actively involved in 16 schools. (Author/IRT)

Presented is a teaching unit which acquaints students with the once-in-a-decade U.S. census. Included are ideas for activities which demonstrate how the census is crucial to the workings of a democracy. (KC)

Special courses offered include a wide variety of subject areas, ranging from math and computer science to instruction of several foreign languages. Other aspects discussed include the teacher and program evaluation. (DLS)

Describes the processes involved when a class of fourth graders makes a film. (IRT)

Describes a supervisory technique (the "O Cycle") based on observing and critiquing teachers, and a way that a small group of principals can create its own in-service program to acquire the skills required to use the technique. (IRT)