An indoor simulated archaeology site for use in a college level introductory archaeology course is described. Housed in the basement of a building on campus, the site simulates an eight-layered French rock shelter. Layers contain "remains" of a microband of Neanderthals, a Lower and Upper Aurignacian group, an Upper Perigordian group, Magdalenian…

Eight secondary seniors participated in an archaeological excavation, an experience in confluent learning, that is, an attempt to duplicate real life in the context of an education discipline. The three week experience gave the students an exciting sense of history, archaeological skills, and a feeling of camaraderie among new friends. (JH)

The characteristics and the role of a statistics laboratory in teaching statistics is discussed. Particular attention is given to the training of students in various academic areas who will need to use statistics in their work. (JP)

This is the fifth in a series of articles of mathematical paper-folding recreations. Presented are instructions for folding a circular disc to produce regular polygons. (JP)

Experienced Based Career Education has produced positive evidence of effectiveness. Two points can be made about effectiveness and educational innovation. First, evidence of effectiveness is but one of several criteria used by educational decision makers for determining educational change. Second, only a small percentage of educators are…

The LARC (Listening and Reading Comprehension) Program, an experiential based story grammar approach to listening and reading comprehension is described, and a pilot study of its effectiveness with communication handicapped children is reviewed. The LARC framework translates children's own recent experiences into sequenced story episodes which are…

The purpose of the first year's work of a two-year project was to identify education and work program characteristics that are indicators of the normative (work-centered) and personalistic (person-centered) dimensions of eighteen experiential education programs and to determine common characteristics and whether programs can be classified based on…

This paper takes the position that toys can significantly modify children's behavior and that considerable care needs to go into the decisions one makes when buying a toy. Toys are regarded as educational aids and sources of potential learning. A given toy can provide a variety of lessons. Such lessons include: (1) learning about the various…

The nation's schools face difficult problems that must be solved if they are to continue serving our society constructively and effectively. The two hundred years of our country's history demonstrate that in the past the schools have met new needs and have responded well to growing demands for education. An examination of several of the problems…

Designed as part of a program to provide self-instructional mediated experiences in an individualized instruction program, this unit covers the process of producing a newspaper. A hierarchy of concepts to be covered by this unit is provided. Students are pretested on their interest and knowledge by means of an evaluation test. The manual lists the…

This study was undertaken to demonstrate the effectiveness of utilization of discovery learning episodes with four different treatment groups: one seventh-grade history class; two preservice education classes (elementary and secondary); and an in-service teacher workshop. The discovery episodes consisted of readings, large- and small-group…

While describing the steps he went through in building a replica of an early cannon, the author expounds his belief that a student given freedom and trust can pursue a course of learning relevant to himself, while the teacher assumes the role of facilitator and consultant. (MF)