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Whitin, Phyllis – Reading Teacher, 2002
Describes the sketch-to-stretch strategy, in which students show what a story means to them by sketching lines, colors, shapes, symbols, or pictures. Suggests the strategy is effective in encouraging a diversity of perspectives about a story, and in using it, many potential at-risk readers as well as stronger students become valued literary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Freehand Drawing
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Coutts, Glen; Dougall, Paul – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2005
What are the main purposes of drawing in the secondary art and design curriculum? What are Scottish art teachers' views on the role and function of drawing? How is drawing taught in Scottish schools? These three broad questions formed the basis of the research reported in this article. The small-scale study, carried out between June 2002 and June…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Art Teachers, Art Education
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Mollhagen, Nancy – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2004
Expressionistic textured paintings are intense and passionate for both the viewer and the artist. Regional subject matter can relate the artist's feelings with the period and location of the artwork. This article briefly describes one classroom's experience engaging in a lesson relating to combining Expressionism and Regionalism. The class was a…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Freehand Drawing, Painting (Visual Arts), Art Activities
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Ulbricht, J. – Art Education, 2005
During a visit to Williamsburg Elementary School (Williamsburg, Iowa), this author was introduced to J. C. Holz, a 10-year-old boy who had already exhibited the characteristics of a prolific artist. During one of the interviews with J. C., the author encouraged him to have a solo exhibition of his work at the University of Iowa. The exhibition was…
Descriptors: Art Education, Exhibits, Talent, Interviews
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Wright, Amy – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
In this article, the author, an art teacher, relates how she struggles every year with finding the time for every lesson she wants to do with her students. Because of time constraints, she always had to make a decision each quarter as to whether her seventh graders would do an artist research lesson, a multimedia project, or a unit on portraits.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Teaching Methods, Art Activities, Time Management
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Lott, Debra – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
Self-portraiture is a great project to introduce the study of color schemes and Expressionism. Through this drawing project, students learn about identity, digital cameras, and creative art software. The lesson can be introduced with a study of Edvard Munch and Expressionism. Expressionism was an art movement in which the intensity of the artist's…
Descriptors: Portraiture, Art Activities, Art Expression, Teaching Methods
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Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale – Primary Science Review, 2004
In England the National Curriculum does not specifically mention the excretory system at key stages 1 and 2. Research by Reiss and Tunnicliffe (2001, 2002) has shown that children's knowledge of the organs and organ systems in their bodies increases with age but remains incomplete, even at maturity, unless they specialise in studying biology. The…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
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Jackson, Emil – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2004
In this paper, I describe the first 2 years of intensive psychotherapy of a multiply traumatized 5-year-old girl. I explore some of the ways in which violent and traumatic experiences were re-lived in the therapy and how they impacted on both patient and therapist. Within the discussion and illustrated by clinical vignettes, I consider the…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Psychotherapy, Trauma, Young Children
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Szekely, Anna; Jacobsen, Thomas; D'Amico, Simona; Devescovi, Antonella; Andonoa, Elena; Herron, Daniel; Lu, Ching Ching; Pechmann, Thomas; Pleh, Csaba; Wicha, Nicole; Federmeier, Kara; Gerdjikova, Irina; Gutierrez, Gabriel; Hung, Daisy, Hsu, Jeanne; Iyer, Gowri; Kohnert, Kathryn; Mehotcheva, Teodora; Orozco-Figueroa, Araceli; Tzeng, Angela; Tzeng, Ovid; Arevalo, Analia; Vargha, Andras; Butler, Andrew C.; Buffington, Robert; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Picture naming is a widely used technique in psycholinguistic studies. Here, we describe new on-line resources that our project has compiled and made available to researchers on the world wide web at http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/. The website provides access to a wide range of picture stimuli and related norms in seven languages. Picture…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Familiarity, Norms, Language Acquisition
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Lambert, E. Beverley – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2005
This paper describes a longitudinal study undertaken with 40 pre-schoolers during their last six months in an early childhood centre and their first six months at school. The study presents an investigation of the pathways that child drawers and painters make towards representational depictions. As such its primary focus is on cognitive processes.…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Preschool Children
Chan, David W.; Chan, Lai-kwan – New Horizons in Education, 2007
Background: Recognizing that arts education is important in facilitating learning and in enhancing creativity in students, recent education reform in Hong Kong has sought to promote arts education and efforts to encourage creative expression through different art forms. Among different modes of creative arts expression, drawing has been suggested…
Descriptors: Creativity, Freehand Drawing, Academically Gifted, Creative Activities
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Panagiotaki, Georgia; Nobes, Gavin; Banerjee, Robin – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Investigation of children's understanding of the earth can reveal much about the origins and development of scientific knowledge. Vosniadou and Brewer (1992) claim that children construct coherent, theory-like mental models of the earth. However, more recent research has indicated that children's knowledge of the earth is fragmented and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Earth Science
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Lambert, E. Beverly – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
This article presents an exploratory study into the use of diagrammatic representation to aid problem-solving. It consists of a case study of one preschooler (3.9 years) who over a 12-month period was encouraged to use drawing as a way of reasoning about daily problems or issues. For this child, diagrammatic representation was found to facilitate…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Metacognition
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Rogers, Carol – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
The purpose of this article is to explore how the descriptive processes developed by the Prospect School (1965-1990), in North Bennington, Vermont, and used in the Prospect School Teacher Education Program (1968-1990) managed to grasp to art in everyday experience and serve as a way of revealing, supporting, and celebrating the emerging humanness…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Art Education
Scott, Peter T. – 1995
The teaching of science demands the regular use of diagrams and sketches which may be formal or informal. This document outlines some basic guidelines, principles, and suggestions for preparing these diagrams. Topics covered include: basic drawing, shapes, lines and angles, contrast and shading, and lettering. (JRH)
Descriptors: Art, Diagrams, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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