Cross-cultural communication cannot be achieved if students are only presented with cultural facts. Instruction must involve the affective and cognitive processes of the learner in interpreting these facts. Before students can understand the attitudes and values of a foreign culture, they must be aware of their own attitudes and values in…

By participating in these class activities, students will acquire mathematical skills and at the same time learn about aging. Topics related to aging are often quantitative, and therefore, subject to mathematical analysis and procedures. The activities, which contain teacher suggestions and all student handouts, deal with seven topics. In the…

This guide provides fourth and fifth grade teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, with information about desegregation that would be useful to parents and students in that city. Classroom activities designed to inform parents and students and help persons to adjust to new school locations are described. Background information on St. Louis desegregation…

This publication stresses the existence of a wide range of instructional resources available to teachers planning field trips. The first chapter presents a brief history of educational field trips and their value as teaching tools. Teacher liability and school board policies are also discussed. Chapter Two deals with the details that must…

This booklet describes how to make large two-dimensional models of dinosaur skeletons which can be effective teaching tools. Small laminated wood dinosaur models are enlarged, traced, and transferred to tri-wall cardboard (one-half inch thick) and cut out with a saber saw. Parts are then slotted and numbered for easy assembly. The result is a kit…

Intended for use with students at all grade levels, this booklet contains activities for incorporating newspaper study into the classroom. The first section of the booklet contains a week-long teaching unit designed to familiarize students with the format and style of newspapers. The remaining sections of the booklet contain activities designed to…

Because tests have shown that students become more proficient in the areas of language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science by using newspapers in their classrooms, this activities booklet was designed to help educators teach children to use the newspaper to improve their skills. Following a section of suggested guidelines for teachers,…

Each page of this handbook contains ideas for suggested classroom activities and approaches to a specific aspect of life in English-speaking countries, especially Canada. Many of the subjects covered emphasize the development of skills in English as a second language or the mastery of specific points of grammar. Other units aim at imparting…

Described are the programs, services, and facilities available from the Environmental Learning Center (ELC). The relationship the Center establishes with schools using the facilities is presented and means of integrating the environmental education offerings of the Center into a school's curriculum are suggested. Also presented are complete lesson…

This science unit is designed primarily for newcomer Chinese students and for those who are continuing in the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program, sponsored through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title VII. It is designed for limited and non English speaking students. The unit is on kinds of soils and how poor soil is made better.…

This science unit is designed primarily for newcomer Chinese students and for those who are continuing in the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program, sponsored through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title VII. It is designed for limited and non English speaking students at the middle school level. The three sections of the unit cover the…

Ten learning stations containing displays and student activities relating to energy comprise the seminar described in this booklet. On a data sheet, each student answered questions based upon information obtained at the learning stations. The guide contains instructions for constructing each exhibit, including a materials list, estimated cost, and…

Presented are 12 learning stations containing displays relating to land use. The booklet gives the necessary information to duplicate the Land Use learning activities. The first section contains working drawings, materials list, approximate cost, and a photograph as well as a description of the model. The text of a sign giving directions to the…

This discussion of games--particularly computerized games--and their potential in schools addresses several topics: what games are, types of games (free-form, rigid-form, or open-form) and their educational applications, the role of games in learning, student participation in adapting existing games for computer presentation, and special classroom…

CHILDREN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD ADULTS WERE STUDIED IN A HARLEM PUBLIC SCHOOL. UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF A GAME, 51 NEGRO CHILDREN WERE TESTED. THE FIRST PART WAS "LET'S SEE IF ANY OF THESE TEACHERS REMIND YOU OF YOUR OWN TEACHER," AS THE CHILD GLANCED THROUGH PICTURES. BOTH PLEASANT AND UNPLEASANT, OF NEGRO AND WHITE TEACHERS. THE SECOND PART…