The 12 model assignments presented in this booklet are designed to help secondary-level students become more skillful and knowledgeable readers and to encourage the appreciation of literature. Each assignment provides a general objective, a product that the student is to create, a list of concepts and skills necessary to complete the assignment, a…

This report sponsored by the Medical Library Association makes recommendations on the planning and teaching of continuing education courses. Included are discussions of ways to determine the scope and objectives of a course, gear a course towards a target population, and limit a course in scope so as to include all material within a limited time…

The document is designed to provide teachers with ideas, materials, and resources for positive emotional development in elementary level students. It is noted that although many of the activities are geared to emotionally disturbed children, they are applicable to any classroom. Inventories of students' attitudes and experiences are included. A…

Provided is a collection of activities for use with elementary level students who manifest perceptual handicaps. Some physical fitness stunts and visual and auditory assessment checklists are included with the pencil and paper exercises. (IM)

Examples of basic affective learning objectives and some examples of teaching procedures for assisting young learners in internalizing these objectives are listed. (JH)

Discusses the use, types, and advantages of simulation activities in problem-solving instruction. Reviews a research study of simulation in medical education. (MLH)

The nature of estimation and its relationship to measurement are discussed. Several ideas for teaching estimation and evaluating students' estimation skills are provided. (SD)

A carpenter's square can be used to introduce students to an alternative method of performing geometric constructions. (SD)

This study sought to clarify the relationships between modes of presentation (verbal vs spatial), explicitness of presentation (little or much), and student aptitudes (verbal vs spatial). Findings are discussed and several areas for future aptitude-treatment-interaction research are suggested. (Author/JEG)

A concrete approach to prime numbers is presented using rectangles and triangles to construct a building for each number so that each story represents a pair of factors and the triangular-shaped roof represents the number. (MP)

Topics covered include alternate methods for finding LCM and GCF, imaginative word problems, and a primes-breakdown method of factoring quadratics. (MP)

Presents an eight-page teaching guide on energy education for use in elementary school classrooms. Included are information on what energy is and where it comes from, ideas on how to mount a schoolwide energy awareness campaign, activities for teaching energy conservation, ideas on how to organize an energy fair, and a resource bibliography. (JMB)

Presents ideas for using food as concrete objects to teach mathematics and offers suggestions for teaching about political cartoons. (JMB)

Suggests how social studies classroom teachers can help students understand culture and folk art through study of folk tales. Activities involve students in class and group discussions of other cultures, story telling, illustrating folk tales, playing traditional games, and studying traditional foods and medicines. (Author/DB)

Eight classroom problems dealing with number concepts are presented and accompanied by suggestions for teacher use. (MP)