The article asserts that setting minimal requirements for all grades and drawing appropriate lesson guides (some models of which are provided) is a more meaningful and humanistic approach to learning than the setting of rigid behavioral objectives. (Author/JB)

Lists the ways that children benefit from movement and dance activities and presents a lesson plan. (SJL)

A lesson plan is presented for dealing with the concept of loss and its relationship to dying, death, and bereavement. (MM)

Presents a lesson plan for showing children how to operate a TRS-80 Color Computer. (SJL)

Presented is a four-lesson unit for teaching intermediate grade pupils how to outline. (SJL)

In rural Goldsboro, North Carolina, most young students have little awareness of art and its importance in their lives. The author designed a 45-minute lesson for grades K-4 which helps children to recognize and appreciate artworks that exist around them. (SJL)

Describes how the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT), a large-scale digital library project, can be used to assist college instructors in designing lessons. Examines two instructional aspects of digital libraries: personalized knowledge bases (the knowledge of any domain), and structured views of the knowledge base (a subset of the…

Describes a process for teaching students to create a theatrical character based on a picture, an animal, a color, etc. Provides ways for students to define the internal and external qualities of the character, and offers exercises such as "pantomime based on a picture" and "using animal image." (PRA)

Describes ways to use the Internet in marketing education and provides a sample lesson plan for Internet activities. (SK)

Discusses how snack time can be used for mathematical activities. Presents several activities that can be used at snack time. (Author/MM)

This Facilitator's Guide has been prepared for presenters of the "Language Development for English Language Learners" professional development module. It accompanies the 67-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker's notes and contains materials to help prepare for a professional development session, including activity instructions, handouts,…

This qualitative study was conducted in 2006-2007 and found that teachers relied on a variety of readily available media to stay informed about the Middle East and used some of them in their teaching. Teachers tried to explain to their students that every Middle Eastern Muslim is not a terrorist and Iraq was not behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.…

This project provides a comprehensive overview of the research literature on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents and concludes by offering a set of 10 group therapy lesson plans for SAD that therapists can use in their practice. The overview includes a description of social anxiety disorder and highlights various theories of anxiety. The…

The current trend in First Year Experience (FYE) courses is to add critical thinking through reading and writing. Research now suggests this design for a learning strategy based FYE course improves retention rates. This paper provides methods of incorporating critical thinking through reading and learning into the FYE course curriculum through a…