Case studies of three elementary schools provided data on visual art as it is conceived of and practiced by classroom teachers. Suggests that there are disparities between teachers' advocacy of art and their classroom practice, and between teachers' views of art and the broader values of their schools. (HTH)

Describes the "American Families Project," in which students from two or more schools participate in a creative writing, historical research activity, each playing a role in a fictitious family living in 1838 and corresponding with each other. (RS)

Presents elementary school science activities with a Halloween orientation. One activity teaches students to appreciate and understand bats. A second activity has students group and classify monsters by individual characteristics. Activities for integrating science across the curriculum include creating monster myths, conducting surveys of…

Presents a multipart exercise developed to facilitate a semiotic approach for teachers of journalism courses concerned with feature writing and photography, in advertising copywriting classes, and for public relations projects involved with image development. Notes that the lessons for each sequence are based upon a process of discovery through a…

Describes five classroom activities: helping students use strong nouns, strong verbs, and right adjectives; using acrostic poems for research reporting; improving student response in directed-reading (and directed-listening) thinking activities; using semantic mapping and cooperative groups to build descriptive writing; and math synonyms. (RS)

Reports on a teacher/researcher collaboration in a multicultural grade 1/2 classroom that instituted a community-oriented language arts program based on parental participation in the instruction. (RS)

Describes the results of a survey of classroom read-aloud practices in the United States. Contrasts read-aloud practices with a "model" of what they might be. (PRA)

Describes a range of classroom writing activities to go along with three books for children or adolescents: "On My Honor" (Marion Dane Bauer), "Knots on a Counting Rope" (Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault), and "Piggybook" (Anthony Browne). (SR)

Presents several classroom-tested model cooperative mathematics activities, ranging from simple to highly structured, for all grade levels. Some of the activities are creating and solving problems from the newspaper; playing team-building games; exploring with fractions; and working on grouping and informal computation using a jar full of candy…

Presents a humanistic, ecological approach to cooperative learning and science education, hypothesizing that science teaching should be a hands-on, cooperative experience based on principles of ecology. The article discusses implications for the classroom, the humanistic approach, ecological perspectives, and synergic thinking. (SM)

Suggestions are offered for involving advanced Spanish-language students more directly in watching and making later use of videotapes. Steps include preparing students to watch the videos, writing a survey on the video topic, and creating a computerized class newsletter. (LB)

After a brief discussion of discovery writing, several types of writing activities are suggested that can enhance learning and critical thinking. They include free writes, journals, electronic dialogue, collaborative writing assignments, and class newsletters. (LB)

Describes how an English teacher incorporates the native languages of her internationally born students into her English lessons. Relates how these activities helped foreign students feel accepted into the class and their new environment. (PRA)

Presents the writing-intensive design for a retailing management course developed by its instructor in accordance with writing-across-the-curriculum principles. Provides an overview of the semester-long project. Details project procedures for preparatory activities, field research, and writing the marketing plan. (SR)

In six brief vignettes, Carol Stock Kranowitz, Bonnie Neugebauer, Shirley C. Raines, and Margie Carter discuss the use of folk and fairy tales in the preschool classroom. (DR)