Reports on the use of a campus newspaper column to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the writing of journalism majors. (HOD)

Encourages the incorporation of nutrition education in the preschool by offering a conceptual framework, increasing awareness of current classroom practices, and providing suggestions for nutrition activities within major curriculum areas. (MP)

Describes an instructional technique for expanding children's vocabulary that embodies the principle that learning involves relating new experiences to what is already known. (FL)

Writing can be a fun and rewarding form of self-expression for gifted students. Some specific writing activities which can provide enrichment include recording, in detail, visual observations; making observations about a specific topic (such as television shows or some other subject the students have experience with); and recording personal…

Argues that show-and-tell is an important school learning activity that gives students an opportunity to practice and improve their oral language abilities. Offers a technique for the informal assessment of show-and-tell activities. (FL)

Describes the activities used by a teacher of English as a second language in Japan, including summarization and storytelling. (HTH)

Suggests sources of information, including books, maps, and slides, and teaching methods and activities to use in teaching ancient Roman history to secondary students. (Author/CK)

Considers how elementary school classroom teachers can employ exploration methods (gathering, evaluation, and synthesis of data related to a specific topic) to help students develop readiness for intellectually complex problem solving. (Author/DB)

Describes a teaching unit on portmanteau words, such as "smog" and "petrodollars," which are created by truncating two words. (SJL)

Examples of comprehension activities are presented in the areas of: context clues, literal comprehension, recall of details, main ideas, maps and charts, interpretive comprehension, sequence, and evaluative comprehension. This article is one of four in this issue comprising the Teacher's Reading Seminar 1979. (SJL)

Describes a procedure for the separation of coleus pigments using simple supplies and equipment from home and the supermarket. (MA)

A technique is illustrated for solving relative motion problems using a maneuvering board and vector algebra. The technique can be used to visually illustrate properties of vector algebra in a non-theoretical context. (MP)

Five calculator activities are described that are designed to explore ordered operations. Suggestions are given on mathematical objectives, strategies for solving, and possible extensions or follow-up activities. (MP)

Among the instructional suggestions offered as aids in helping high school students in social studies classes overcome reading difficulties, are helping the students strengthen their self-concepts, assigning work in accordance with the reading ability level of each student, serving as role models, providing frequent feedback, and stressing study…

Describes the essential goals of the justice education movement, implications for early childhood education, and curriculum content. Curriculum focuses on the importance of rules and their connection to laws. Activities to illustrate this connection are suggested. Law-related community resources are identified. (DB)