A new journal feature shares practical ideas in experiential education in less than 800 words. This issue presents an initiative problem, rules for rope push, exercise illustrating dependence on schedules, how to experience a handicap, maple sugaring project, assignment bridging the generation gap, simulating literary experiences, and local…

Suggests mathematics readiness activities that teachers and parents can use with preschoolers: comparing shapes and sizes; counting; and learning quantitative concepts such as "less" and "more." (SJL)

Presents a learning activity about President Lyndon B. Johnson for use in seventh-grade Texas history classes. Students examine one photograph and two political cartoons depicting President Johnson. They search for clues showing the ways that the president symbolized Texas and summarize their findings in a brief essay. (AM)

Provides a number of nontextbook methods for teaching writing, including the use of films, art, guest speakers, newspaper articles, and student notebooks. (RL)

Describes a series of geography activities for upper elementary students designed to develop comprehension of space-time relationships. Students collect data about their families' commuting patterns and construct regional maps showing distances and directional relationships. Then they modify the maps to incorporate the time dimension. (AM)

Proposes student-taught minicourses as a way of fostering self-directed learners while meeting the demands of an extensive and varied curriculum. Outlines a procedure for establishing such courses. (FL)

Describes a word game that is designed to provide students with a challenging way of combining a basic core of Greek and Latin word parts and manipulating them so that assimilation of the prefix often occurs in completed words. (FL)

Lists several classroom writing activities, including writing in sand, using letters cut from magazines and newspapers, and baking letter cookies. (HTH)

Describes eight ways of using "The Book of Lists" to stimulate the thinking and imaginations of high school social studies students. The author also presents examples of ways lists can be used to teach concepts and to clarify values. (AM)

Offers strategies for teaching reading skills that are important in the study of mathematics. (FL)

Offers a teaching technique that modifies the cloze procedure into letter-cloze independent activities designed to aid children in learning difficult sight words. (FL)

Suggests activities based on the newspaper that parents can undertake with their children. Lists newspapers that publish supplemental materials for children. (FL)

Bilingual parents can help the teacher in developing culture-related reading activities and with students' emotional adjustments. They can help the librarian in reading and language arts related activities. At home, they can give children the confidence and reassurance needed to learn successfully in a different language environment. (NQ)

Presents a variety of tested ideas for getting student writers started. (SJL)

Presented are 35 activities guaranteed to nurture healthy attitudes toward reading. The author's original article, containing 30 related ideas, appeared in the November, 1977, issue of Instructor. (Editor/SJL)