Games, activities and worksheets prepared by pilot teachers in a workshop on study skills for elementary school children are compiled. Introductory remarks explain the study skills component of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Development, discuss implementation of the program, and list pertinent materials and resources. The games, activities, and…

Educational games can make the English classroom a giant playground for natural language opportunities. Some of the games include (1) the use of the animate-inanimate switch for a unit on the language of advertising, where the students use two decks of word cards (one for nouns and the other for adjectives), the purpose being to match the…

An introduction for teachers to Tools for Change, a new course in problem-solving, is provided by this sourcebook. The major assumptions and rationale underlying the course are explained and the most significant concepts involved--such as heuristics and problem-solving--are scrutinized. Examples of problems and process-oriented problem-solving are…

The "Chemistry Card Game" for teaching stoichiometry of inorganic precipitation and ionic complex reactions is described in the first article of this UNESCO newsletter. The game is played with 106 cards consisting of 19 kinds of cations, 14 kinds of anions, and one kind of molecules (NH3). Included are the instructions for making the…

The articles on simulation in education collected here include a primer on simulation, an introduction to the virtues of gaming, and examinations of the role of simulation in teaching geography, computer programing, international relations, and in teacher education. A consideration of the use of media in simulation and a discussion of crisis…

Several games, which can be useful in the classroom for teaching problem solving strategies, are described. (SD)

Reports on a game devised for teaching English to German seventh graders, consisting of a series of 12 letters, containing instructions for carrying out specific assignments of varying degrees of language difficulty. The assignments were geared to the students' capacity at each stage. (IFS/WGA)

Describes a laboratory game called SUPERCHARGE, used as an aid to help students understand the concept of equipotential surfaces generated by distributions of charges. (GA)

Examples are given of several compound games of strategy that involve mathematical theory and provide new bases for understanding and axiomatizing the concept of "number." (MN)

Gives directions for making and using eight learning materials (such as a math learning circle, eletroboard, mystery annual jigsaw puzzle). (SB)

Describes a simple inquiry game which involves displaying a problem situation picture, with a portion of the picture covered. Children are then challenged to discover what is happening. (SL)

Discusses a theoretical model that uses a game as a base for studying processes of a stochastic nature, which involve chemical reactions, molecular systems, biological processes, cells, or people in a population. (MLH)

Describes nine biology experiments, including osmosis, genetics; oxygen content of blood, enzymes in bean seedlings, preparation of bird skins, vascularization in bean seedlings, a game called "sequences" (applied to review situations), crossword puzzle for human respiration, and physiology of the woodlouse. (CS)

The advantages of using metric games, guidelines educators can use to design metric games, and ways in which such games can be used by proponents of metric education are discussed. (DT)

The rules for seven different games with playing cards are given. Educational uses are discussed briefly for each of the games. (DT)