A student-conducted television survey caused the fifth graders to read, think introspectively about their own television viewing habits, conduct interviews, analyze the resulting data, and write about the results. (BW)

Discusses ways to organize a course in classical mythology. Presents classroom exercises including matching and word games, as well as extension exercises. Concludes with a list of sources on mythology. (HTH)

Described is a third-grade class's science project of raising monarch butterflies. (CJ)

Provides a fundamental overview of conflict resolution, suggests a teaching plan to implement conflict resolution in a classroom, and recommends various classroom activities that illustrate conflict resolution techniques. (HOD)

Discusses the benefits of jogging to students and gives tips for starting a class jogging program. (SJL)

Describes a readers theatre approach to poetry in the classroom that involves all students. A readers theatre script of Earl Birney's poem "David" is appended. (HTH)

The article presents a set of enrichment activities about trees which is intended for use by regular and special classroom teachers of primary grade gifted children. Activities are broken down into activities for the whole class and activities for individual gifted children. (DB)

Urges basic writing instructors to teach prewriting and rewriting as seriously as they teach writing. Decribes the implementation of this approach which forces students to proceed through all three stages of writing in a structured classroom setting for each composition assignment. Provides an example showing a students' writing improvement. (AYC)

The theoretical value and classroom applications of three types of puzzles are presented. Find-a-word puzzles, acrostics, and logic problems are described. (PMJ)

This column presents 15 practical TV literacy ideas which a teacher can use to spark up a teaching year with no red tape, special funding, or planning. (Author/KC)

This article presents a rationale for using songwriting in the elementary grades and outlines a plan by which a whole class of fifth- or sixth-graders can work together to write a song. (SJL)

Presents a selection of October resources for the elementary grades: a calendar of notable events; a Christopher Columbus game; and a story, a playlet, a song, some poems, and an art activity for Halloween. (SJL)

Suggestions are made for teaching history to slow-learning students. The importance of developing a sense of time and of stimulating imagination is discussed, and three examples of history activities are provided. (CL)

Suggestions for using preventative counseling with gifted junior high or high school students are considered in terms of specific adjustment problems and activities to increase student awareness. (DB)

Presents the case for using class time for the production of the student yearbook. Outlines a schedule of activities for the yearbook classroom. (RL)