Twenty-four elementary school children from two schools in grades K-3 participated in a study to teach six street-crossing skills. (Author)

The Centennial Education Program at the University of Nebraska piloted an Artist in Residence Program that has significant potential for serving both the student body and the larger community. It provided a mechanism for revitalizing the Centennial interdisciplinary curriculum on a regular basis. (Author/LBH)

Provides five exercises designed to include real world experiences in consumer education for primary students. The identification of basic food items, development of a shopping list, assignment of shopping behavior (careful, careless), and a field trip to the supermarket precede filling out a chart with comparative prices, brand names, and total…

The College for Living is an educational program for adults with developmental disabilities. It is based on the theory that everyone can learn something and has the right to an education in a positive setting. The program is characterized by high morale, nontraditional teaching methods emphasizing experiential learning, and individualization.…

Provides a rationale for the development of a classification and retrieval system for games and exercises in speech communication, a model of a classification and retrieval system in the area of nonverbal communication and, a set of guidelines for the development of a classification and retrieval system for other areas of speech communication.…

The Institute for Personal and Career Development of Central Michigan University offers external degree programs for adult learners using nontraditional study. The competency-based programs described include credit given for the educational background and relevant career-life experiences of registered nurses in Michigan. (Author/LBH)

Discussed are the strengths a field-study approach brings to undergraduate education, a model for conceptualizing a full range of field settings in the community, business, and government, and sources of strain in developing and implementing a program of non-classroom-based learning. (JMD)

People may perceive little opportunity for personal participation in international affairs due to their early socialization. Based on the assumption that people will participate if they can see international links in their activities in the local community, experiments with participatory learning in foreign policymaking were undertaken in…

Activities are suggested which enable children to experience in a concrete manner the basics of linear measurement and estimation in the metric system. (MN)

A detailed and up-to-date description of how the Harbor Hill Elementary School mathematics laboratory operates is given along with a list of materials that are available in the laboratory. (MN)

The authors develop some necessary considerations for evaluating mathematical games as well as provide some examples of quality games. (MN)

The author outlines the development, structure, and teaching and assessment problems of one introductory discipline-independent mathematical modelling course. (MN)

The number concepts of greatest common divisor and least common multiple are related to star patterns created through line designs. (JT)

The classroom use of attribute blocks to develop thinking skills is defended in this article. Divergent-productive thinking is identified as an important skill that can be developed by using these blocks. However, teacher commitment and involvement in the program is considered necessary. Suggestions for using these blocks are included. (MA)

A variety of methods for indirectly measuring the height of a flagpole are described for classroom use. (JT)