The article outlines seven activities of a lesson to improve listening skills through a series of games designed to keep the student's interest as well as introduce the lesson's point. The approach emphasizes feedback and modeling. (CL)

A learning center established to serve preschool visually handicapped children and their families encourages social development, promotes the development of other senses, and provides exposure to new events and activities in an introductory school experience. (CL)

The importance of using materials, ideas, or activities that are real and meaningful to gifted students is noted and opportunites for drawing upon students' everyday experiences or concerns are illustrated in three examples. (Author/CL)

Presented is a self-contained lesson in land use which can be used in a high school American studies course. The lesson is cross-referenced to major textbooks. (RM)

The unit for disruptive children at Hungerford is run on behavior therapy principles. The director of the unit, David Lane, outlines the program objectives at Hungerford. (Author/RK)

Provides a rationale for teaching listening skills and suggests specific learning activities to improve students' listening abilities. (KS)

Requirements for good proofreading are discussed, followed by five sample exercises of proofreading problems, including typographical errors, transpositions, pileups, spelling and word errors, style, grammar, and typing usage errors. (TA)

Outlines projects which have been particularly successful in bridging the gap between classroom economic knowledge and community activities. The outlines should help stimulate teachers to develop topics which would motivate student learning in the economics and business areas. (HD)

Carpets, laundry, parenting, cooking, sewing notions, and health word search puzzles are presented; answers are included. (TA)

Moving is a natural to learning as breathing is to living. Movement is a legitimate way of learning and is the only way that some people really learn. It lends itself beautifully to successful, satisfying experiences for all participants. (Author/IRT)

The problem of determining the number of squares having vertices at pegs on geoboard is considered. (DT)

Learning activities in statistics are described in which data about students in the class are collected and analyzed. (DT)

This is the first full report using data from the Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Survey of the 2001 National Household Education Survey Programs (AELL-NHES:2001) on the educational activities of adults in the United States. The report shows that 46 percent of adults in the United States participated in some type of formal education between…