Describes a teaching approach that uses an operating classroom business to fund service learning projects. (YDS)

Illustrates how the process of describing a trip by writing out map directions can help students develop the skills necessary to become proficient at solving linear equations. (YDS)

Introduces an activity that focuses on Hooke's law to implement and furnish applications of linear equations and graphing in a physical situation. (KHR)

A study of 22 health occupations students examined whether participation in an interdisciplinary community health empowerment project with urban homeless and formerly homeless people changed their attitudes about community health practice, attitudes toward people who are indigent and homeless, and perceived leadership skills. Posttests revealed a…

Presents a lesson on trees and forests that incorporates inquiry strategies by examining meaningful relationships between growth, physiology, and the utilization of trees. (KHR)

Traces an eighth-grade teacher's first year of teaching. Notes times of enthusiasm and fatigue: the "October Slump" and the "May Circus." Suggests that though teachers may be warned about certain slump times, only experience will help them through it. (PM)

Describes integrated science and mathematics professional development programs for grades 4-10 science and mathematics teachers designed and implemented at Wright State University over the past five years. Presents evidence of enhanced participant content understanding and pedagogical preparation and discusses specific examples of modified teacher…

Develops a simple tree-ring laboratory to demonstrate the basics of dendrochronology. Provides two upper-level laboratory exercises primarily intended to demonstrate the specific dendrochronology subdisciplines of dendroclimatology and dendroecology. Suggests using the exercises separately or in unison as part of a multidisciplinary capstone…

Incorporates environmental education into the arts to enhance student learning, imagination, and ability to invent solutions. Provides lesson ideas such as a river walk, bird adaptation sculptures, and a tree scavenger hunt. (YDS)

As a writer and faculty member at Emory & Henry College (Virginia), Ed Bingham focused on land reform and the sustenance that came from the land. His concern for the damages caused by colonialism influenced the early days of Appalachian Studies. His work was interdisciplinary, with commitments to social justice, democracy, and racial equality.…

Presents a play about the French Revolution, discussing how the play was used within a global history course. States that students read the play, work in groups to rewrite the play, and perform their version of the play. Includes key questions that are asked of the students. (CMK)

Focuses on geography in secondary education, offering reasons why geography is becoming more popular in schools. Provides four activities that integrate science and social studies through geography. Includes topics such as ecological disasters, monsoons, the ozone layer, and global warming. (CMK)

Technological tools (e.g., electronic data bases, computer-aided instructional software, interactive video systems, spreadsheets, simulation and modeling software, graphic calculators) can work toward making learning more independent, individualized, interactive, interdisciplinary, and intuitive. (DB)

What higher education has to offer society is the opportunity to promote the individual development of students through open-ended inquiry. The traditional curriculum has limitations, and higher education should make a greater effort to lower disciplinary barriers and offer access to higher-order cognitive, social, professional, and physical…

Although the whole language perspective requires no money, it does involve "kid watching," or knowledge of individual class members and their interests. As the experiences of two elementary teachers illustrate, educators need only look to their own backyards and to past/present historical events for rich instructional material. Includes three…