A computerized toy, Big Trak, is used with first graders in combination with other activities as a tool in teaching directionality. It was also found useful in helping to prepare young children to use a much more advanced computer. A directionality program written in BASIC is included. (MP)

An approach to teaching BASIC to twelve-year-olds makes full use of the graphics capability of PET computers. Student experimentation with the use of loops leads to the creation of something tangible as well as intellectual. Students discover how modifications to simple programs affect outcomes. (MP)

A physical education teacher's approach to orchestrating individual and group learning is described. Cognitive and affective learning are stressed in addition to physical skill development. Creative use of learning resources--milk cartons, "direction boxes," and newspapers--is illustrated. (PP)

Describes an integrated, holistic approach to vocabulary development. (AEA)

Recommends an approach to basic skills instruction which takes poetry as its focus to study grammar, style, and ideas. Reports three benefits: poetry gives students something significant to read, utilizes professionals' grammar and usage to teach these areas, and generates readable topics for writing. Provides two typical assignments. (DMM)

A study of 66 university students who studied a chapter, rated the way they studied, and completed two tests on the chapter indicates that the self-report method appears to be a reasonable way to monitor what subjects are doing and undergoing when they are studying. (Author/CM)

Describes the Orff-Schulwerk approach for teaching music to children. The objective is to awaken aesthetic responsiveness. Learning activities are designed to highten sensory awareness, provide genuine aesthetic experiences, promote musical skill development, and stimulate conceptual learning and improvisation. (AM)

Describes a social studies unit for teaching high school students about energy. Entitled "Energy Tradeoffs in the Marketplace," the unit focuses on economic aspects of energy, economic-related educational games, social decision making with regard to energy, and social studies skill development. (DB)

Describes two classroom experiences which can be useful to high school social studies classroom teachers as they teach students about global interdependence. Lessons involve energy production and use, and relatinships between energy and environmental issues. Students are involved in group discussion, map work, reading newspapers, and analyzing…

Offers tips to teachers on presenting the concept of due process in the classroom. Activities involve students in a variety of activities, including recognition and definition exercises, case studies, legislative drafting, and a mock administrative hearing. (DB)

Suggests techniques for helping students to recognize emotional content in books or television programs and to understand how authors use emotion as a story device. (Author/SJL)

Although traditional instructional methods and textbooks mitigate against it, investigation can be a viable alternative strategy in the geometry classroom. Many theorems in geometry, such as Euclidean space, lend themselves easily to student experimentation. (Author/SJL)

Twenty-eight learned helpless children (ages 9-13) assessed as reading below grade level were randomly assigned to one of four reinforcement and attribution retaining treatments. Indirect and direct attribution retaining increased childrens' reading persistence and their attribution of failure on the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility scale…

Identifies a set of basic group leadership skills to be used in a systematic skills training approach. The skills involve teaching and group management. Definitions and examples of the skills are provided, and the adaptation of a microcounseling format for training in group leadership skills is discussed. (Author)

Describes a program of activities for increasing children's skill with oral language, including creative storytelling, questioning, and role exchange. (HTH)