Fingerplays--brief stories that rhyme and can be dramatized by using the fingers--are an old activity for children that can be traced in Indian lore to a time before Columbus. Today, fingerplays delight and fascinate young children and provide a variety of learning opportunities. Fingerplays can provide a source for strengthening language…

Studying the Olympics can be useful in educating elementary and secondary students to the roles women have played as athletic competitors, sports administrators, and in sports governance. Study of the Olympics can provide educational experiences which: (1) provide a picture of challenges at all levels of sport under which women have been forced to…

A PlayDay is a day designed to draw attention to a range of play activities, while providing an opportunity for children, families, members of the community, and teachers to share in physical and mental challenges without facing the pressure of winning or losing a game. PlayDays can range from massive park events for thousands of children and…

This document consists of the three volume IX issues of "Volunteer Voice," a newsletter of the Tacoma Community House Training Project. The first issue consists of one teacher's personal account of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching and includes the following: an annotated list of ESL text books, a list of activities resources,…

The purpose of this publication is to record the traditional games played by the Inuit and to preserve a unique form of sports and recreation found in northern Canada. Written in English and Inupiaq, this manual contains descriptions of games played throughout the Arctic with special emphasis on the Keewatin Region, suggestions for teaching Inuit…

A board game designed to teach junior high school students how to use the telephone directory is presented in this unit from the Greenfield Express Management System (GEMS) program, a California Demonstration Program in Reading. A project overview form from the California Centers for Educational Improvement (CCEI) describes the GEMS program and…

Elementary school teachers are provided with materials and instructions for using a variety of social studies games. The 15 games described are: charades, checker states, hollywood squares, states guessing game, index relay, jeopardy, the match game, the money game, password, the states game, sequence, stump the students, track meet, famous person…

Writing exercises are games that can lead to success in the classroom because they are artificial and have arbitrary rules defined by the instructor. By giving students a starting point, a limited task, and the assurance that the writing is, after all, "just a game," exercises can circumvent students' initial anxieties about self-presentation and…

Pilot studies of instructional sequences using games showed that high ability junior high school students and their teachers improved significantly in the ability to select ideas relevant to solving particular problems. (SD)

Discussion of political science games and their use at the college level is intended to present a case for the feasibility and desirability to expand the role of simulation in Soviet studies. (Author/ND)

This article describes a one-week indoor boy's physical education unit consisting of playground games and circus stunts. (RC)

Describes how to play "Periodic Creep," a chemistry game in which the periodic table is the board. (LS)

Describes a game in which students practice process skills in the science classroom. (LS)

Describes a game in which elementary school students learn the importance of plants and some techniques of plant identification. (LS)