Suggests that the classroom party is a successful tool for teaching students about animals. In addition to information on planning such a party, animal-related activities for each month of the school year as well as instructional strategies are offered. (JN)

Gifted second and third graders formed a corporation and marketed their own products in a special acceleration and enrichment program. Organized by a classroom teacher, art teacher, and a local businessperson, the program incorporated work on math skills, language art, art, problem solving, and decision making. (CL)

Learning-by-doing centers, an approach based on theories by J. Piaget and The High Scope program's cognitively oriented curriculum, strengthens the problem-solving skills of learning disabled students. (CL)

The author suggests activities involving computers for elementary gifted students. Directions are given for making and adding external speakers to enhance the sound. (CL)

Presents several computer-oriented activities dealing with electronic dice, reading menus, rhyming words, and a high-technology version of musical chairs. Although these activities assume a certain level of computer expertise, each one can be easily adapted in any grade. (JN)

How computerized electronic keyboards can be used in elementary music classrooms is discussed. Tips for buying the right keyboard are also presented. (RM)

Short-term activities for elementary level special classes may include riddles, guessing games, and rote counting practice, while activities for secondary level classes include memory drills and questions on bus routes and traffic rules. (CL)

Offers suggestions for setting up, managing, and operating mini learning centers in the classroom using materials already on hand to provide necessary reinforcement, expansion, and enrichment of previously introduced concepts. (DMM)

The article reviews traditional analog time-telling instruction and introduces an alternative approach for learning disabled and other mildly handicapped students. The applied digital approach couples concrete instructional techniques with murals depicting time-related actions of student's day. (CL)

The author reviews the role of logic problems in teaching thinking strategies to LD students. Devising one's own written logic problems is advocated to present less wordy tasks. (CL)

An honors world history course for gifted tenth graders compacted traditional content while offering differential reading materials and content as well as differentiated skill development. Unusual activities, such as international feast and historical persons party, stressed divergent thinking. (CL)

Suggests activities to practice asking directions that encourage immediate student use of the target language in a range of meaningful contexts. Exercises are accompanied by guidelines for classroom utilization. (EKN)

Describes a flexible strategy for associating Spanish with the daily English language newspaper interests of junior and senior high school students. The strategy is adaptable to other languages, is especially suitable for classes with students of different levels, and is one which allows all students to be adequately challenged. (EKN)

In order to critically read adult information sources, students need to be able to identify external factors which influence the presentation of information. Activities to help students identify these factors are suggested. (RM)

The core-explore-more approach is a framework for planning enrichment activities in self-contained classes for gifted students. Core activities cover basic skills, explore activities, encourage follow-up of interests, and incorporate greater student initiative and exploration. (Author/CL)