Argues that teachers and directors should teach their students how to audition. Offers tips, explanations, and observations regarding selection of material, preparation, appearance, making contact, and other advice. (SR)

Offers journalism advisers and students guidelines on the proper use of everyday/every day, anyway/any way, anyone/any one, and sometime/some time. (RS)

Specifies ways to prepare the learning environment for using technology. Describes business class projects incorporating telecommunications: developing career essays, making career decisions, becoming an entrepreneur, and playing Extreme Sports Web Quest. (SK)

Presents five cross-curricular activities involving student snapshots that are designed to keep students motivated. Activities include creating a class book with teacher and student photographs, making photo magnets using frozen juice can tops, developing a first-week word wall with students' names and photographs, and creating a post office with…

Examples of ways to use themes and characters from television shows in classroom activities for organizational behavior courses are provided, related to need theories of motivation, perceptual biases and errors, and equity theory. Six appendices provide sample activities and test questions. (SK)

Describes a three dimensional poetry genre--a way of rewriting two dimensional haiku in a three dimensional cube that can only be viewed in cyberspace. Discusses traditional versus 3-D haiku, introducing 3-D haiku into the classroom, reasons to teach 3-D haiku, and creating 3-D haiku. (RS)

When children are invited to learn as they play, explore, discover, and celebrate, the commitment is being fulfilled to preserve and protect their birthright--a joyful education. In this brief column, the author relates the story of four-year-old Jackson. Jackson arrives in class excited at the prospect of visiting his Grandma after school. During…

We created a classroom activity to illustrate the complexity involved in identifying sexual harassment. In the activity, students decided whether 6 fictional scenarios constituted sexual harassment. The activity stimulates animated discussion, and evaluation data indicate that it received positive feedback from students and refined students'…

On a gray, breezy day last September, thousands of people got in their cars and reluctantly left home. U.S. east coast highways were thick with traffic. Schools were closed. Businesses shut down. When powerful Hurricane Isabel arrived some 38 hours later, nearly everyone in the storm's path had fled to safety. Days later Vice Admiral Lautenbacher,…

Sonia Nieto (2004) defines multicultural education as "a process of ... basic education for all students ... [that] challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination in schools and society and accepts and affirms the pluralism ... that students, their communities, and teachers represent" (p. 346). This definition necessitates…

The beginning of the school year presents many challenges to teachers. A teacher must learn the names of new students, assess each incoming student's abilities, establish a positive learning environment of communication and respect, and encourage interdependence of students. The Pick-a-Number activity described in this article represents a…

This article describes an outdoor activity known as orienteering, the practice of using a map and a compass to find points in a landscape. Downloadable materials, courtesy of The Roger Tory Peterson Institute, can be found on www.TeachingK-8.com. These materials include instructions for the activity and reproducible illustrations of seven basic…

This letter presents data concerning variation in average annual temperatures by altitude and latitude, along with some suggested class exercises.

This article describes a development of conic surfaces that connects different definitions of the conics. A classroom project using Dandelin Spheres is also described.

The Russian-educated author describes active-learning classroom activities that she created and implemented during her first experience teaching lower- and upper-level undergraduate mathematics courses in the United States. The article begins with a discussion of how the author incorporated humorous stories and memo-pictures into the classroom.…