Describes using guided conversation with middle school students to promote better comprehension in the content areas. (SR)

Suggests that by combining art and literature into units of study, students will gain additional opportunities to connect their learning. Discusses several class projects adaptable to any grade level, school setting, and teaching or learning styles. (RS)

Describes multicultural units of study that sensitize junior high school English students to other individuals of diverse backgrounds. (RS)

A teacher describes how she arranged successful field trips to enhance her students' education. The planning involved brainstorming for topics and destinations, making appropriate arrangements, creating a schedule, deciding upon the destination of choice, researching the subject, taking the trip, and returning to the classroom to review the trip.…

Discusses the author's experiences using interactive multimedia in the English classroom. (SR)

Presents 50 hands-on, amusing math activities to inspire elementary students to enjoy learning such math concepts as estimation, linear measurement, weight, volume, time, and temperature. Each activity is typed on a 5x7 index card and has an answer sheet. Following a minilesson, each student receives a card activity to complete. (SM)

Provides ways to use the standard functions of word processors to help students effectively edit on-screen "soft copy" as well as ways to counter the illusion of perfection caused by drafts printed on high-resolution laser printers with proportional fonts. (RS)

Describes how a teacher of adult literacy uses group poetry writing with her students to enhance language and critical skills. (SR)

Discusses a writing assignment in a business writing class in which students write business letters that meet legitimate needs and will be mailed to the addressee. (SR)

Applies principles of collaborative teaching and learning to an instructional unit on job applications and resumes. Offers advice on collaboration in the classroom. (SR)

Discusses the use of a Sutterlin computer font that can help teachers of German acquire a working knowledge of that arcane script by generating an unlimited number of neat and perfectly regular practice texts. The deciphering of Sutterlin printouts can also serve as a worthwhile supplementary activity in various advanced German courses. (MDM)

Describes a class banking project whereby students deposited their ice cream money, received a more nutritious snack as interest, and saved enough to buy books. Includes activities across the curriculum related to the banking project. (HTH)

Describes how a first-grade bilingual teacher plans a thematic unit using a whole language approach. Discusses how the teacher plans her instruction to cover the maximum number of state-mandated objectives while drawing upon the cultural background, experiences, and interests of her students. (SV)

This article presents easy computer projects to send students into the summer feeling good about the past year and looking forward to the next. The projects involve printing summer reading book lists, making bridges to the next grade, publishing books of class events, designing reading posters, and creating summer calendars. (SM)

Describes how a class of elementary students organized a community project to reclaim a forgotten city green-space and turn it into an environmental park. The students researched local environmental problems and worked with a nearby developer to lessen environmental impacts. (LZ)