Focuses on the uses of sand in reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities in preschool and the primary grades. (BB)

Presents ideas for devising field trips when transportation funds are reduced. Describes how to conduct walking tours, forming a station wagon brigade, and inviting traveling shows and individuals from the community into the classroom for career information and cultural enrichment. (KH)

Describes a model for a poetry writing project that aspires to transform students into sounder thinking, more sensitive human beings. The project, which was used in a grade eight class, includes writing and editing original poetry, class discussion, and creating books of student poetry. (KH)

Once a month, fifth-grade students in an Indianapolis, Indiana, classroom can use tickets earned through good behavior and academic achievement to purchase donated items and baked goods. Students are in charge of organizing the activity, keeping track of student "earnings," and managing a student "bank." (PGD)

Presents a variety of art and writing activities designed to evoke a new pedogogical orientation and to enable students to use their imaginations. The activities focus on language de-conditioning, observation, timing, transfer of knowledge, and reproduction. They include recipe models, colors, sensation, and feeling; poetry; and creating artistic…

Outlines techniques for using simulations in the second language classroom to encourage students to imagine aspects of and situations in the target culture and as a means for evaluating student understanding of the culture. (MSE)

Outlines a study of two teachers' image of "the classroom as home" illustrating how personal and professional experiences are expressed in their classroom practices. Offers a theoretical concept of "image" as knowledge incorporating theoretical, practical, objective, and subjective experience. (MD)

Describes an exercise called "Building Blocks' that demonstrates the risky shift and polarization effects of small group discussion. (PD)

Video games may allow educators to reach children who have never before been incorporated into an educational experience within the confines of school. A distinction is made between types of arcade style games and educational games in Piagetian terms: practice games, symbolic games, games with rules, and games of construction. (LMO)

The purpose of this article is to discuss hardware issues and help educators assess their hardware needs in order to determine the best computer hardware for their school program. Good and bad features, flexibility, reliability, cost effectiveness, and optimum classroom configuration are given particular attention. (LMO)

Describes a classroom game designed to help students use and improve speaking and listening skills in a second language, by having one student describe a picture and another try to reproduce it from the description. (EKN)

Deals with organizing, editing, and producing a literary magazine as a class project. Suggests steps to be taken and pitfalls to be avoided. (RBW)

Describes an assignment in which students in a public relations case problems and management class are introduced to the kinds and depth of research that public relations professionals undertake. (HTH)

Describes a class assignment in which graphics students use an ancient Chinese puzzle called a tangram. Students arrange the five triangles, one square, and one rhomboid into an animate and an inanimate object. (HTH)

Argues that in order to understand the complexities of the nuclear arms race, it is necessary to understand "nukespeak," a "language" of euphemisms, jargon, and acronyms used in talking about nuclear matters. Learning activities and projects for high school English classes are suggested, and a 45-term nukespeak glossary is…