Outlines background, materials, operation, and evaluation of four activities for grades six-nine designed to illustrate how curriculum activities can enhance astronomy concepts and native awareness: "Were Native People Aware of Milky Way Galaxy?,""Constellation Cans,""Travels of the Big Dipper," and "How Did the…

Offers suggestions for keeping the journalism class exciting and the teacher and students enthusiastic. Suggestions include inviting people in the profession to work with students, providing opportunities for publication of journalism students' works, and having students write a news account of a historical news event. (HTH)

Argues that children want to write and enjoy writing and that teachers need to provide them with suitable opportunities for doing so. Discusses different kinds of writing that allow children's voices to come through. (FL)

Argues that the value of humor in a reading/language arts program may not be understood completely and may often be overlooked. Suggests that the use of humor is supportable by many learning theories and that it has probable affective and cognitive benefits. (FL)

Recommends using primary sources for historical information and education rather than depending entirely upon the chaptered textbook method of learning. (RK)

The main concern of this article is to describe some of the aspects or facets of discovery learning situations exemplified by the models and found in curriculum development projects. (Author)

Reasons for the need of new curricula in school music programs are presented in detail. (CK)

Describes the implementation, use, and evaluation of four different types of simulation-games for training geography teachers. Criteria for game selection, modifications, and methods for their integration into the curriculum are included. (AM)

Significant difference in the types of activities planned and implemented in the development and culmination phases of lessons were found. Also, elementary and secondary student teachers differed significantly in the types of activities planned and implemented in the developmental phase of lessons. (Author/RL)

A gradual and balanced use of future-oriented materials and activities are suggested to enable students to better confront, cope with, and create their futures. (TA)

Summarizes how a series of articles use a range of perspectives to present developmentally appropriate content progressions, pedagogically sound practices, and assessments that have the potential to strengthen the way elementary teachers implement net/wall games, focusing on: common features for modifying net/wall games for elementary children;…

Discusses a mathematics curriculum for children in preschool or kindergarten which emphasizes manipulation. Suggests activities in the following concept areas: observation, classification, comparing and contrasting, seriation, patterning, graphing, informal measurement, and counting. (RJC)

Discusses good mathematical tasks and where they may be found. Good tasks are authentic, are challenging, pique the curiosity of students, encourage students to make sense of mathematical ideas, encourage multiple perspectives, and nest skill development in the context of problem solving. (MKR)