Baseball is a practical teaching tool that both educators and students can relate to. Despite popular misconceptions, baseball offers sound educational methodologies, and its concepts and practices provide a model for effective teaching. Coaches have high performance expectations, measure success against specific outcomes, allow increased practice…

Across cultures, a common motif is the rite of passage that facilitates transition to adulthood. The structure of an Outward Bound course parallels a classic adolescent initiation rite, involving separation from home and family, influence of a guide or instructor, group adventure in which participants increasingly take responsibility, a solo…

Describes a project in which students selected seeds from two heirloom varieties of tomatoes, sowed the seeds, harvested the tomatoes, and fermented the seeds. Details are provided for each step of the project and the school address is included so that other students can begin similar projects. (DDR)

Outdoor activities assist nursing students in developing self-awareness of communication, leadership, and coping abilities; learning communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills; and increasing assertiveness and initiative. (SK)

Describes the advantages of simulations over real-life tasks in courses in instructional materials development. Explains how to develop a simulation, including setting objectives, considering learning and gaming principles, and evaluation; and discusses simulation as an experiential approach that is cost effective. (Contains 45 references.) (LRW)

Presents an activity that turns ordinary whipping cream into old-fashioned butter in minutes. (ASK)

Analysis of 141 nursing students' diaries and focus group interviews about their work with an ambulance service revealed the following: holistic nursing played a role; they developed appreciation for paramedics' skills; and experiential learning helped them understand the complete care process from the emergency call to patient discharge. (SK)

Describes framing adventure activities to focus on positive scenarios that reinforce Jewish Chassidim spiritual values of individual participation and purpose, responsible decision making, learning from the mistakes of others, working together, sharing group responsibility, group trust, responsibility for others, and accepting challenges as…

A four-phase reflective cycle can help teachers better attend to student learning: (1) presence in experience; (2) description of experience; (3) analysis of experience from multiple perspectives; and (4) experimentation (taking action). Teachers should also solicit structured student feedback to distinguish between what they think they are…

Introduces the AmeriCorps/Campus Corps program which is designed to integrate service learning into Maryland community colleges. Uses a model that can be replicated on a local level with all of the outside classroom legwork associated with service learning provided by the members of AmeriCorps. Describes the struggles regarding faculty recruitment…

A group of 10 women developing peer education services participated in collaborative inquiry in order to remove barriers to peer counseling. The following themes emerged: (1) adding experiential knowledge to textbook knowledge; (2) crossing cultures using difference as a creative resource; and (3) using public discourse to transfer knowledge to…

Conceptualizes learning within experiential and constructivist perspectives as a complex interplay of orientation, elaboration, and integration. Illustrates the model with the case of a training program aimed at organizational change. Identifies tensions between the three components and the trainer's role. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

In this classroom activity, students perform a series of tests with deicers to decide which works better at melting ice and then decide if calcium chloride deicer is worth the extra cost. (MM)

Investigates fishing and aquatic stewardship outcomes associated with different levels of program exposure among n=619 participants in a national fishing education program (Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs) designed for youth in Grades 6-8. Supports the assumption that such programs are more likely to influence antecedents to environmentally…

Traces the origins of experiential learning in the work of Erasmus, Rousseau, and Dewey. Points out problems in Dewey's theory of experience. Explains four learning strategies that define experiential learning as meaningful learning. (SK)