Presents class activities, bulletin boards, songs, games, stories, plays, recipes, and art ideas for November and December, with emphasis on Thanksgiving, Book Week, and Christmas. (SJL)

Suggests that a neutral conversation involving likes, dislikes, etc. requiring simple patterns is more useful for the first meeting of a multinational class of EFL learners than the usual process whereby each student introduces him or herself to the group. (BK)

Describes experimental technique for improving relationship between the structural and functional components of language teaching using dialoguing as an in-class game. (BK)

This article presents guidelines to the elementary teacher for producing a class play. The script for a short adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" is appended on pages 47-49. (SJL)

The article describes a unit of activities in the humanities (involving famous Americans who achieved heroic proportions) for junior high and high school gifted students. Activities include taking a class survey and exploring the importance of the contributions of the Americans included in the unit. (PHR)

Explains three games played with Chem-Deck, a card game which gives students practice in forming chemical compounds by familiarizing them with the charges of various ions. Effectiveness of this technique in terms of cognitive and affective components is supported by statistical data. (CS)

A teacher describes an incident which changed a child's attitude about himself and his classmates' attitude about him. Allowing a student to assume some authority and responsibility in the classroom turned him into a contributing member of the class. (JMF)

Presented is a discussion of the natural history of the dandelion. Three activities involving study of dandelions are presented. Each activity includes discussion of purpose, skills, and materials needed. (RE)

Provides examples from two classroom exercises: an exercise in which the opening verses of the King James Bible are rewritten in various modern styles, and an exercise in which words in well-known book titles are changed to show the power of the original titles. (GT)

A high school English teacher with repressed urges to write reports on his self-discovery as a result of writing in class with his students. (RL)

Outlines a game which requires students to identify and use letters of the Latin alphabet. The game consists of three steps in that: (1) students must correctly identify letters; (2) after "winning" a letter, groups of students use them to build words; and (3) from the words, students add other words to construct complete sentences. (PJM)

Describes the processes involved when a class of fourth graders makes a film. (IRT)

The special needs of gifted students are listed, and techniques a teacher can use to meet those needs are reviewed. (SBH)

A project is described that provides activities which allow children to learn about their physical health by using themselves as experimental subjects. (JD)

Some games for developing children's reading skills are described. (JD)