A Child Awareness Program was conducted by nine elementary schools to enhance acceptance of handicapped children by their nonhandicapped peers through child awareness activities. A manual of activities was developed containing lesson plans, lists of guest speakers, audiovisual materials, and suggested simulations of handicapping conditions. (SB)

Summarizes 60 characteristics of effective instruction for gifted students that can be provided in the regular classroom. These characteristics include six general categories or areas of "need": individualizing basic instruction, appropriate enrichment, effective acceleration, independence and self-direction, personal and social growth, and career…

Describes a step-by-step process for elementary class brainstorming to develop interdisciplinary learning projects and activities: (1) initial listing of everything concerning the topic; (2) organizing the ideas by discipline, responsibility, and logical sequence; (3) experientializing the topics; and (4) identifying skills to be incorporated in…

Trees of all varieties in mid-spring are surprising yet perfect examples of flowering plants. Provides descriptions and photographs of many trees that can be studied. (NEC)

Discusses why junior high school students like comic books and examines how comic book art and visual narrative can be used in education. Copying comic book art can teach students several useful art techniques. Suggestions for using visual narratives to study science fiction, literature, folklore, and art history are included. (AM)

Describes a living history program on life in nineteenth-century San Diego for secondary students. During tours of a restored Victorian house, students view slides of historical photographs, study clothing and furniture styles, and participate in typical sewing, cooking, and cleaning chores. (AM)

This learning activity for use with secondary students motivates discussion and broadens students' insight into the kinds of issues raised by a national population policy. The role play involves students in developing a national population policy for an imaginary country. (RM)

Suggests art and visual awareness activities appropriate to different subject areas. (SJL)

Presents a four-day unit that helps high school students discover the benefits that social studies education, and specifically global education, have for their careers. Students, working in groups, identify events outside the United States that influence their lives and things they have done which influence the lives of people living in other…

Here are 10 activities guaranteed to enrich your science curriculum and to increase your students' interest in the world of insects. (Author)

Lists 27 secondary school activities in which career awareness is incorporated into the history curriculum. Students investigate occupational changes over time, identify history-related occupations, research the development of farm equipment, and invite the local bank president, news director, school librarian, and city planner to speak. (KC)

Discusses the usefulness of instant cameras with all ages of students and in all subject areas. (SJL)

An educator, a parent of a gifted child, recounts her son's use of the mail to increase his contact with the adult world, master typing skills, improve his writing, and become acquainted with the business world. (CL)

Presents descriptions of social studies learning activities which teachers have found useful in social studies classes at various grade levels. The teacher developed activities focus on studying sociology through investigative reports, conceptualizing through questions, identifying vocabulary use differences between the United States and Great…

Reviews "Happily Ever After," a reading readiness program that is designed to help those children who lack many of the concepts and abilities assumed by most readiness programs. (FL)