Presents strategies that use cooperative learning to enhance performance in general chemistry courses. Discusses the profile of the students and the implementation and evaluation of cooperative learning strategies. Concludes that cooperative learning in chemistry is feasible and desirable. Contains 10 references. (JRH)

Describes Chomp, an educational strategy game for use in high school programming courses that can encourage cooperative learning. Discusses rules of the game; Chomp players; Chomp board programs; Chomp tournaments; Chomp strategies; and extensions of the activity that can involve more advanced mathematics. (LRW)

Describes how to explain the organization of a library to elementary school students by making an analogy of a library being like a state: each state is made up of towns and neighborhoods as libraries are made up of areas for fiction and nonfiction. Includes a worksheet. (LRW)

Provides ideas for inspiring language Learning and maintaining Australia's common wealth as a multicultural society. Focuses on hands-on activities that stimulate language learning communities to negotiate and promote excitement and enthusiasm for languages, while creating community support. (Author/VWL)

Describes the design of an online competitive learning environment that involved three basic competitive forms and 16 competitive activities to stimulate student motivation. Explains "Joyce", a system in which users can compete with either a computer agent or via the Internet. (Author/LRW)

The information technology audit is a management learning activity in which students apply interdisciplinary research questions to a client organization. Business students thus learn to predict, diagnose, and mitigate organizational risks in implementing information technology. (Contains 14 references.) (SK)

Discusses the role that dictionaries can play in the teaching of French. Several types of dictionaries are discussed, and activities that students can use at different levels are provided. (27 references) (VWL)

Each technology learning activity in this article includes content description, objectives, required materials, challenge, and evaluation questions. Subjects are designing product packages and communication through advertising. (SK)

This article proposes a system for developing lesson plans which accommodate differences in student learning styles without jeopardizing the pace of learning. Four teaching styles (direct teaching, practice, reflection, application) are identified, and activities that work well with these styles are suggested. A sample lesson plan is included.…

Offers eight short accounts from teachers of ways they are using collaborative or cooperative learning in their classrooms. (SR)

Argues that environmental education has failed to change our culture's treatment of the earth because it neglects the spiritual elements of environmental relationships. Discusses the incorporation of Native American spirituality into outdoor education, and suggests student activities to develop spiritual perspectives. Contains 10 references. (SV)

Reports an interview with one teacher who shares her story about learning through language and authentic activities. Describes how she and her second-grade students develop a life history together in the classroom community. (MG)

This article describes an activity conducted as part of a university health class unit on marriage and family relationships. Four couples (2 recently married and 2 married over 50 years) were invited to the class to participate in a discussion of how they resolve their marriage problems. (IAH)

Because geography begins right outside the school door, teachers can structure learning activities that link classroom learning to events in the local community and the world. These activities can be organized in a program leading students from description (reading the landscape) through explanation to prediction. (MLH)

Explains how storytelling can help preschoolers develop literacy skills and considers the instructional advantages over reading aloud of the give-and-take between audience and storyteller. Includes a description of a storytelling session. (DMM)