Perhaps the most important course in an advertising curriculum is the student-run agency. This paper describes a program instituted and carried out at Oregon State University from 1985 to 1989 which provided students with experiential training resulting in valuable real-client contact and strong portfolios, making students "hot…

The background experiences of the rural student provide a wealth of ideas that can be expressed through poetry writing. Poetry forms which can be taught in the language arts class, or throughout the curriculum are: (1) the couplet, which contains two lines with ending words rhyming; (2) the triplet, which contains three lines with all ending words…

The authors stress the importance of providing severely handicapped students with concurrent, systematic, direct, and individualized instruction both in school and nonschool environments within daily or weekly time intervals. A brief historical review of educational service delivery models for the severely handicapped is provided. These include:…

A series of charts lists weekly activities for conducting a hands-on science laboratory in grades K-6. Arranged by grade level, the charts complement chapters in the "Gateways to Science" textbook series (McGraw-Hill, 1979). For each week, a concept to be explored is tagged to a 45-minute activity. This document was selected by the…

To aid undergraduate students in their initial study of Piaget's theory of intellectual development, students enrolled in a sophomore child development course administered selected tasks to individual subjects in order to verify or disprove results predicted in the theory. Prior to replicating the Piagetian experiments, students were introduced to…

A series of activities involving comparing weights of objects directly, using non-standard units, using standard units, using simple scales, and using complex scales are described. (SD)

Twenty-five games, suitable for use at various points in the elementary mathematics classroom, are described. (SD)

A game similar to the television game "Concentration" can be effectively used for drill on computation such as equivalence of fractions. (SD)

Activities involving the drawing of kites and figures related to kites are described. (SD)

Curve stitching activities can be used to motivate calculus students. The problem described here involves showing that a given envelope of a curve is parabolic. (SD)

In a speech to the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (England), the author presented reasons for presenting mathematics in a more humanistic way. Citing Gattegno, he argued for teaching with the objective of promoting awareness of mathematics, and discussed examples of the advocated approach. (SD)

Teachers asked students to write down as many names for their favorite numbers as they could. The results were surprising, with many students performing better than their teachers had expected. (SD)

After stating that almost any topic could be generalized, the author was challenged to generalize the topic of polyominoes. His response is presented in this article. (SD)

An activity involving measurement of various parts of a bicycle is described. Sample worksheets are included. (SD)

Discusses the proposals of some American educational authorities who favor smaller, more diverse high schools with greater emphasis on action learning, career education, and alternative educational programs. (JG)