Summarizes the experience of creating an interdisciplinary unit for 10th grade students in which three history and two English teachers team-taught Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," each teacher presenting one of Chaucer's characters. Discusses the students' reactions and the benefits of the unit. (CMK)

Suggests that graffiti presents many avenues of study within social studies and language arts for middle and high school students. Contends that graffiti is relevant to students' feelings, opinions, and ideas. Offers a list of Web sites focusing on graffiti. (CMK)

Discusses the value of cooperative learning in higher education and presents a case study of how Towson University used computer technology to develop a Web-based project that allowed students to collaborate across disciplines. Describes the use of online discussion groups, multimedia, and hypertext to facilitate cooperative learning and…

Discusses a unit on the discovery of the senses that integrates art and science. Students create pictures of a "smell" using the crayon-resist process. Explains that during the second day, students "smell" their peers' paintings to determine what aroma is being depicted. (CMK)

Discusses the educational uses of computer games and simulations and describes a study conducted at the State University of New York College at Farmingdale that used the computer game "Sim City 2000." Highlights include whole systems learning, problem solving, student performance, nonparametric statistics, and treatment of experimental…

A study examined department-level effects of collaboration in graduate programs on students' doctoral experiences and the broader departmental environment. Analysis is based on survey responses of over 2,400 doctoral students and faculty from 98 research universities. Results suggest clearly salutary effects of a collaborative context on doctoral…

Maintains that literature-based social studies instruction can be used to teach civic responsibility even at the primary level. Includes three sample lessons teaching personal responsibility, environmental responsibility, and a citizen's responsibility to the community. Each lesson uses a children's book as the main text. (MJP)

Briefly reviews over 160 children's and young adults' books published in 1995 containing subject material applicable to social studies. Presents an excellent mix of books for grades K-12 categorized by subject (civil war era, world history and culture, contemporary issues). Annotations include reading level and thematic strands. (MJP)

Some of the advantages to integrating physical education activities with other subject areas include offering fresh insights into the physical education program, motivating students, and providing advantages to different types of students. Integrative activities include embedded tasks, practice tasks, and discovery tasks. Guidelines for planning…

Describes the results of a project in which students adopt a three-meter-by-three-meter plot and make periodic observations of changes in the plot. Students keep a journal, involve their families in plot observations, and visit one another's plots. (DDR)

Reviews need for internal leadership training programs at academic health centers and describes three programs. Elements common to the programs include small classes, participants from many areas of academic medicine and health care, building on prior experience and training, training conducted away from the institution, short sessions, faculty…

A Connecticut principal describes how his middle school explored benefits of looping for seventh and eighth graders. Results of a study evaluating the effects of a pilot project on student discipline, attitudes, and achievement were positive enough to justify expanding looping to all seventh- and eighth-grade classes. (Contains 19 references.)…

Discusses one teacher's process of adopting curriculum integration principles. Notes the importance of listening to students and classic theorists, reconsidering the development needs of early adolescence, and developing teachers who seek curriculum integration. (JPB)

Discusses using children's literature to introduce mathematical concepts to middle school students. Provides an annotated list of novels and recommends development of concepts, processes, and attitudes to motivate students' intellectual explorations. (JPB)

Explains the process of creating a curriculum based on the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Introduces an activity where students experience flowers and their environments. Focuses on Content Standard C of the NSES. (YDS)