Article focuses on activities designed to make students "think metric." (HB)

A discussion of whether learning should be structured or open-ended. (HB)

This handbook on nutrition and cooking is one of a series written especially for parents and other caregivers. Contents include: (1) the importance of nutrition, (2) the four basic food groups in terms of serving size, menu planning, and major nutrients, (3) ways to build healthy attitudes toward food, (4) unsafe foods which have the potential to…

The booklet outlines a philosophy course for gifted high school students. The program is designed to provide both academic substance and higher level critical thinking skill development. Objectives of the program include: (1) becoming more sensitive to life's major alternative goals and the standard means recommended for attaining them; (2)…

Chapter 1 discusses what children learn through play and how they learn it. Chapter 2 contrasts different goals of public schools and early childhood programs. Chapter 3 describes science activities for young children. Chapter 4 outlines additional learning activities. A bibliography lists suggested readings on play. (RH)

A teacher describes his unexpected success with a technique designed to help special needs ninth graders acquire writing and spelling skills. Assisted by his teaching aide, he used a dictation exercise coupled with immediate feedback and touch. He found that dictating sentences helped students make transitions betweens talking and writing. The…

This experiment uses a radioactive technique to determine the relative leaving abilities of chloride and iodide in nucleophilic substitution reactions. (DT)

Two experiments are described which illustrate preparative as well as mechanistic features of the reactions of halogens with alkanes and alkenes. (DT)

Statistics gathered from class members can be used to discuss at least eight different statistical problems and concepts and serve to increase student interest in reading about and completing homework assignments in statistics. (JH)

A discussion of the techniques used by Auburn University, Alabama, to introduce new students to an innovative program of teacher education. (HB)

Language arts programs need to include many activities involving speaking because oral communication is fundamental to reading and writing. (JH)

Article presents an observation instrument for observing learning center instruction and the results of such observations in an audio-tutorial physics course at Cornell University. (Author)

This workbook contains exercises for use with college students to teach them about the use of census data and to help them acquire census related skills. The workbook supplements "Census '80: Continuing the Factfinder Tradition," an undergraduate textbook published in early 1980. The volume is divided into two parts. The first provides…