Discussed are the media-oriented activities of an innovative education course. (LS)

An innovative program to stimulate the educational motivation of young children is described. (CK)

In describing the film production program at Southern Illinois University, the author points out the valuable learning experiences the students gain from this activity. (LS)

Two mathematics activities are presented for deaf primary and middle/high school students. Activities are concept based; require student participation; use concrete materials; have a controlled vocabulary and language level; and provide for active, searching, and questioning involvement. (CL)

Over 600 talented elementary students in Massachusetts participated in a challenge program in which students were to devise a game format integrating math concepts into the theme "Futures: Fact or Fantasy." The challenge model can be used in other subjects to provide differentiated learning experiences for talented students. (CL)

Pets can provide valuable learning for handicapped children, but selection of a type of pet should consider cost, availability and care, parents' attitudes, locality, the animal's susceptibility to training, pet's life expectancy, and the child's handicap and emotional maturity. Suggested pet-related activities are listed. (CL)

Provided are several techniques, recommended by experts, to improve one's memory. These include use of mnemonics, creating mnemonics that use imaginative/concrete visual images, breaking hard-to-remember information into simple parts, adding words/numbers to otherwise meaningless information, creating a story using unrelated facts/names, and a…

In courses such as the history of psychology, it is necessary to learn a variety of relationships, events, and sequences, in addition to the task of having to pair certain key concepts with related names, e.g., phrenology--Hall. One tool useful in this type of learning is the crossword puzzle. (RM)

Describes four suggested junior high or senior high school teaching activities to use in conjunction with a letter written to Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Civil War. Activities encourage skills such as information gathering, reading and oral skills, creative expression, and critical thinking. (CK)

A teacher of gifted fifth and sixth grade students describes a unit on research ability in which students engage in a library scavenger hunt. (CL)

Film techniques are suggested for use with gifted students. Pre- and post-showing discussions are described, as well as projects involving students as film critics and directors. (CL)