Since ancient times, humans have sought explanations for the mysteries of nature's beauty and variety. Like other kinds of folk stories, pourquoi tales can be considered parables about how humans and animals originated or why they look or behave the way they do. Pourquoi tales have high appeal, are generally simple and straightforward in…

Instructors are responsible for making teaching come to life. This article seeks to energize the classroom through an exploration of the tacit synergies between the language of poetry and the language of management. In the process, the authors delve into both the opportunities and the obstacles in bringing together two disparate discourses. As an…

An integrated technical writing and design course has been developed at Rowan University. This course was developed using aspects of project-based learning and recent discussions about design education, as well as pedagogical approaches from the write-to-learn and the writing in the disciplines (WID) movements. The result is a course where the…

This practical, teacher-friendly book provides indispensable guidance for implementing research-based reading instruction that is responsive to students' diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Structured around the "big five" core topics of an effective reading program--phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension--the…

Teaching about racism creates challenging issues for educators and students alike. Using experiential learning and a public-access curriculum to teach about racism and social inequality, graduate and undergraduate students participated in this elective course. The hybrid "minimester" course focused on affective responses to classroom activities,…

Students now have at their disposal a range of Web 2.0 authoring forms such as audio and video podcasting, blogging, social bookmarking, social networking, virtual world activities and wiki writing. Many university educators are interested in enabling students to demonstrate their learning by creating content in these forms. However, the design…

A collection of games and word-search puzzles to be used by the Home Economics teacher are presented. (BP)

Based on the positive reinforcement principle of David Premack, this study provides a test of his principle on young children and attempts to assess the usefulness of the principle in actual classrooms by regular classroom teachers. (RC)

Eleven games, whose objective is to teach home economics skills and concepts, are described, and a list of additional games and resources is provided. The games illustrated can be made from easily obtained, low cost materials, and are appropriate for classroom use. (AG)

Several classroom consumer education activities are discussed for use in instructing elementary school children. (MJB)

Techniques for incorporating metrics into existing business courses and suggestions for classroom activities are presented. (MF)

Describes 10 classroom projects designed to stimulate elementary children at the end of the school year. (SB)