This paper is concerned with the unfolding of human marks, beginning with scribbling, and their contribution to developing literacy. The paper argues that children's scribbles reveal a neural substrate destined for marks and influence that substrate significantly, cuing what is distinctly human in linguistic behavior and consciousness, or symbolic…

One of the more interesting areas of problem solving in chemistry attempts to answer the question, "What do students understand about the molecular level of chemistry?" This question is also implicit in the more traditional area of mathematical problem solving but in this paper, more focus is placed on devising ways to help students develop a…

This teacher's guide contains information, lesson plans, and diverse student learning activities focusing on space flight. The guide is divided into seven sections: (1) "Drawing Activities" (Future Flight; Space Fun; Mission: Draw); (2) "Geography" (Space Places); (3) "History" (Space and Time); (4)…

This digest reviews children's writing development from socio-cultural, generative, and developmental perspectives. The digest's first section deals with oral language, art, and children's early writing, noting that children use their drawing and talk to support their early exploration and use of print. The second section examines how, in addition…

This paper presents students' drawings of a classroom experience in a statistics course. The drawings offer proof of ways in which teaching practice was effective and also provide an opportunity to understand how students perceive their peers. Included with the drawing exercises were instructions to describe scenes and offer insights into what the…

This paper described findings which accounted for the coexistence of positive and negative results in previous reports and showed how the findings can be explained by a theory of the origin of handedness. (Author/RK)

This is an account of a fifth grade class that made a mosaic and a mosaic that "helped make" a fifth grade class. (Author)

Author felt it necessary to develop a sequential unit which made the students aware of design fundamentals as a tool for development of idea concepts. (Author/RK)

Article describes the advantages of bringing animals into the art room. (RK)

Describes an art teacher's technique of teaching about abstraction in art by having students draw and paint their impressions of various sounds. (GB)

Results of this study suggest the feasibility of using concepts from studies of spoken language for experimental studies of graphic performance. (Authors)

Intellectual realism was investigated by using as a model a cup with the defining feature (the handle) not visible, and a nondefining feature (a painted flower) visible. (Authors/MB)

The results of this study suggest that the human figure drawing does not provide a valid increment to a battery which contains the WISC and the Bender-Gestalt. (Author)

Article describes and illustrates elementary students' paintings on 2 x 2 slides, using felt tip pens and drawing inks as well as paints to achieve experimental effects. Slides were then viewed through a projector. (PD)