Techniques which are designed to dispel fears and promote confident learning are offered to preschool swimming instructors. Safety, class organization, water games, and class activities are discussed. (IAH)

Describes how to teach story mapping to primary-grade students. (MM)

Describes how to make hand puppets, marionettes, and rod puppets, using computer graphics programs in the initial designing stage of the process. Advocates using puppets at nearly any grade level and subject area as a way to integrate literature, writing, and computer technology. (SR)

Presents an approach to teaching John Milton's "Paradise Lost" in conjunction with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Notes that a study of these works stimulates vigorous discussions on theological and moral issues, human nature, and the cultural past and future. (MM)

Selected 23 studies on effectiveness of classroom-based, elementary school affective education programs and evaluated resulting research evidence. Lack of positive significant findings in carefully designed studies provided little support for effectiveness of affective education programs in promoting positive changes on behavioral or affective…

Offers a few examples of introductory activities for the technology student. Results of the unit will be a solid foundation for further study as well as the beginnings of a more technically literate workplace. (JOW)

Describes class activities designed to teach inference skill using combined lists. (RS)

Describes several activities relating to Wanda Gag's story "Millions of Cats," including description writing, choral reading, place value math exercises, and sequencing activities. (MM)

Describes how the works of Dr. Seuss--particularly "On Beyond Zebra"--provide an ideal medium to engage children in critical reading, discussion, and reflection. (MM)

Describes how students can write and assemble monthly classroom calendar books. (MM)

Describes how the author role-played a character from "To Kill a Mockingbird" to stimulate classroom discussion of the novel. (MM)

Offers several brief creative writing activities that are quick, convenient, and encourage students to enjoy and play with words and ideas. Presents these ideas in a calendar format, one for the primary level and one for the intermediate level. (SR)

This article outlines the development of an urban elementary school gardening project where children learn science and responsibility for the environment. Charts provide a gardening timeline, planting plan for each grade level, instructions for building a grow cart, and indoor experiments that test environmental factors for each grade level. (LZ)

Explains the guidelines for an exercise based on the poem "The Little Mute Boy" by F. Garcia Lorca. States that students are to: discuss synesthesia, the substitution of senses; explore the surreal senses; think about life without a sense; create a net of surprises; write a poem; and read the poem aloud. (PA)

Describes a writing project in which elementary students write Choose-Your-Own adventure stories. (SR)