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What Happens in the Arcade Shouldn't Stay in the Arcade: Lessons for Classroom Design
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Whitmore, Kathryn F.; Laurich, Lindsay – Language Arts, 2010
What features of the physical environment in video game arcades lead kids to be so engaged? How can analysis of arcade space inform language arts teachers' decisions about designing classroom environments? This article presents an analysis of physical space in video game arcades and participants' positions therein to suggest how language arts…
Descriptors: Video Games, Physical Environment, Recreational Activities, Classroom Environment
Design Office within the Classroom.
Campbell, Kumari – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1980
To help architectural students adapt to the realities of the work environment, Gerard Campbell of Holland College has set up his classroom as a design office. Working as a team, the students prepare a complete set of working drawings and construction documents, simulating an actual design process. (JOW)
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
The Creative Classroom Environment: A Stage-Set Design.
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Heck, Shirley F. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1978
Presented is the stage-set design approach to classroom environment, in which the classroom is designed as a stage so that learning experiences and situations may become life-related and purposeful. (BD)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Creativity
Farallones Scrapbook; A Momento and Manual of Our Apprenticeship in Making Places and Changing Spaces in Schools at Home and Within Ourselves.
Farallones Designs, Pt. Reyes Station, CA. – 1971
The Farallones Designs group is dedicated to "helping ourselves and other people create more human places for living, learning, working, playing,...to returning architecture to its roots in each person,...to creating access to the design process and tools." The Scrapbook is a "partial record of eighteen months together helping kids and teachers to…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Corridors, Equipment
Natural Learning.
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Rambusch, Nancy McCormick – Montessori Life, 1995
Describes Maria Montessori's early learning "Casa" setting for young children and other models for educational programs for young children. Discusses the importance of setting in facilitating natural learning in young children and the five steps in the natural learning cycle--observation, participation, role-playing practice, eureka…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Discovery Learning
Follow-up to "Designing Classroom Spaces: Making the Most of Time."
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DeLong, A. J. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1996
Further explains the theory of "experiential time," which argues that children can process more information and have more time for complex play when the size of the learning environment is decreased, which increases a child's command of space. (SD)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classrooms, Design Requirements
Creating & Managing Learning Centers: A Thematic Approach.
Ingraham, Phoebe Bell – 1997
Providing a center-oriented classroom takes more than rearranging the furniture. This book offers guidance to teachers in all aspects of creating learning centers in the classroom. The first section, comprised of five chapters, provides information on using small areas of the classroom for specific activities or tasks. Chapter 1 explains different…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development