"Alpha-Pets" are the focal point of an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum. Each pet is featured for a week in a vocabulary-rich story and introduces related activities beginning with the featured letter, such as the four food groups during Freddie Fish's week or universe during Ulysses Unicorn's week. (MT)

The collection of 15 teaching ideas from teachers of limited English proficient students focus on language skills and include such suggestions as having older students prepare a slide show to illustrate irregular English verbs for younger students and interviewing parents about their traditions. (DB)

Presents classroom activities, with complete lesson plans, for involving young children in discussions, case studies, role playing, and informal hearings to learn about making democratic decisions, resolving disputes, legal procedures, and due process. (JDH)

Presents five complete lesson plans for class activities that teach children about due process, freedom of speech, and mediation and the adversary process through the use of role playing, mini-mock trials, and case study techniques. (JDH)

Presents three complete lesson plans for class activities that teach youths about the writ of habeas corpus, procedural justice, and due process, through the use of role playing, a criminal law mock trial, and case study techniques. (JDH)

Presents five complete lesson plans for activities that teach high school students about search and seizure, due process, freedom of assembly, right to counsel, and other individual liberties, through the use of case study techniques, a jury simulation, the analysis of historical material, and discussions. (JDH)

Reports on how teachers organize their classrooms when they have more students than microcomputers available to them. Indicates that seatwork is the primary activity of students in a classroom when other students are engaged at the computer. Other findings (based on data from 1,082 microcomputer-using schools) are reported and discussed. (JN)

Describes "Learnball", a classroom management approach that uses sports format and peer approval to improve productivity, motivation, and behavior in the classroom. (MD)

At the end of the American Revolution, British merchants flooded U.S. seaports with inexpensive and much-desired goods, threatening the healthy markets that U.S. merchants had enjoyed during the war. The broadside in which Massachusetts merchants made their anger and demands known is the basis for the teaching activities presented here. (RM)

"Iggie's House" by Judy Blume is the story of one week in the life of an eleven-year-old White girl when a Black family moves into her middle-class neighborhood. Presented are lesson plans and learning activities for using the novel in social studies courses for intermediate or junior high school students. (RM)

Describes the Jefferson County Primary Integrated Curriculum program. Developed as an interdisciplinary curriculum, the program allows primary students to work holistically. The article includes Learning Units. (MD)

Language classroom games emphasizing verbal interaction are suggested and described, including a genealogical tree puzzle, enigmas, guessing games, and observation problems. (MSE)

Briefly outlines three classroom activities to (1) promote classification skills, (2) encourage cultural awareness, and (3) provide summer activities for parents and children to do together. (CI)

Physical education class can offer language enrichment opportunities to hearing impaired children through such experiences as obstacle courses, guided movement, and tasks involving human alphabet and number forms. (CL)

A signing-singing group was organized to help hearing students form friendships with their mainstreamed hearing impaired peers. (CL)