These 30 self-contained instructional units, for K-6, are structured to promote learning exercises outside the classroom; from the playground, local factory, or city hall to pond, farm, or woodland, places where students may touch the pulse of community life. Attractively packaged in plastic folders, each "mini-unit" provides a teacher's guide…

Lists 17 activities that can be used in the classroom to commemorate Wright Brothers Day. These include making bulletin boards, writing poems, and a field trip to the airport. (MA)

Points out current inadequacies in art teaching and shows some ways of getting to know more about the artistic qualities of things. Art education can sharpen the aesthetic response powers if the art teacher can effectively diversify learning activities. (Author/RK)

Describes an interdisciplinary pilot program for ninth graders at Bronxville (New York) High School using three teachers (representing social studies, English, and art) to teach an ancient history unit. The varied learning activities were based on the Coalition for Essential Schools' driving forces: personalization, the student as worker,…

Describes an elementary school program of free enterprise education that involves students in real, money-making business activities. Discusses previous class projects and methods for integrating all aspects of education into this program. Provides guidelines for starting a similar program. (GEA)

Simple patterns both in mathematics and music are discussed. Several activities using standard instruments and handmade devices are described. (MNS)

Contains curriculum-oriented activities on various aspects of dog and cat care. Organizes the exercises by reading levels and identifies each activities-related subject and skills area. Includes student work sheets that can be duplicated for classroom use. (ML)

Learning activities are suggested to give secondary students an understanding of totalitarian concepts found in such literature as "1984" and of violations of international human rights. (RM)

Career planning activities were integrated into an undergraduate semester-long course in industrial psychology. For example, students wrote resumes, generated interest profiles, wrote job descriptions which were consistent with their interest profiles, researched published sources to find out about various jobs, and interviewed persons working in…

This booklet contains a collection of activities developed for pre-K through second grade students. All of the activities in this teacher's guide use an interdisciplinary approach and explore the human connection with all living things and their environment. Contents include: (1) "Sharing Space and Working Together"; (2) "Sharing Resources and…

Interactive books have parts or pieces that children can manipulate while reading the text. In the interactive books described in this classroom resource book for students in grades PreK-1, the pieces are attached to Velcro and can be moved from one part of the book to another, while the text consists of verses set to familiar tunes so that…

Specific examples are provided for using songs and lyrics to teach the topic of social class. Strong points, as well as problems, involved in getting students to analyze songs are considered. Some resources for locating songs are also included. (Author/RM)

Hersey humanizes the horror of Hiroshima by describing the experiences of five survivors. Twenty senior high students in a U.S. history course were divided into five teams, one for each survivor, and asked to write a case history of that individual, make an oral presentation, and draw the victim's picture. (RM)

Secondary students participate in a library scavenger hunt to find answers to questions raised by the press release containing President John F. Kennedy's telegram to Nikita Kruschev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned space flight. Issues for classroom discussion are also presented. (RM)