Included are three curriculum guides, Section A, Section B, and Section C, which are concerned with the development of number concepts in elementary school, through the use of Cuisenaire rods. Small group and individual instruction are encouraged, and many suitable learning activities are suggested. Section A is introductory and covers number…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Experience-Based Career Education program in the Kanawha County, West Virginia School System. Four facets of pupil behavior were examined: achievement in English skill areas; attitudes toward work; attitudes toward education; and attendance. (Author)

In an earlier article (AA 528 071), the author described how kindergarten through second-grade students can create improvisations based on selected poems, stories or books. This article takes improvisation one step and a few grades further by showing how third through sixth graders can structure entirely "original" stories, characters and plots.…

Johann Gottlieb Heusinger, an eighteenth-century German educator who was influenced by writings of Rousseau and Kant, argued the importance of bodily activity to children and advocated making industrial occupations central in the elementary curriculum. Heusinger's ideas influenced Dewey and Bonser and ultimately were important to the Industrial…

The course Introduction to Technology (Quebec Department of Education) allows a student to increase his creative processes while increasing his technological awareness. This awareness is developed by the construction of a prototype which arises out of substantive technical information and a perceived personal need relative to a particular theme.…

A classroom activity is described where students divided circular regions into equal sections and reassembled them to determine the formula for the area of a circle. Using an odd number of sections (Instead of an even number) changes the shape of the reassembled pieces but still gives rise to the same formula. (MN)

Each teacher can be an agent for social change by teaching subject matter content through relevant activities that involve students in decision making and cooperative effort. (MJB)

Activities are presented which involve folding and cutting paper, and then describing the finished product before opening the paper. (JT)

Low achievers get involved in intuitive mathematics by discovering geometric relationships through the use of pentamino puzzles. (JT)

A generic model of experiential instructional methods is presented illustrating (1) forms of these activities and their interrelationships; (2) a classification scheme for examining their components and interrelationships; (3) relationships between structures and outcomes; and (4) methods for matching instructional methods and objectives. (MJB)

Six math activities with which elementary school children can reinforce money skills and check their own responses are described. (GW)

Describes an activity which successfully gets all students in a class (including those with reading disabilities) involved in constructing sentences and learning grammar and punctuation. (JM)

Discusses how one teacher's experiential learning as a parent and writer provide more insight into his classroom teaching than do consultations with "expert" sources. (HTH)

Problems of American public schools are described. Experiential education, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional schooling and emphasizes experience-based learning and personal growth, is recommended. (MT)

Describes a "learning by doing" approach to sociological research designed to gather a comprehensive understanding of the Racine, Wisconsin youth gang situation, led to a nontraditional approach to research in typical research methods course. Includes information about student and faculty involvement, the process of research training,…